Courtney Love Got Gastric Bypass?
October 7th, 2008 by Rian | Filed under Miscellaneous Celebrities.
(Photo via SplashNews)
Rumors are circulating that Courtney Love had gastric bypass surgery 2 years ago. According to a friend of Courtney’s, she had the surgery secretly and had a hard time finding a doctor who would do it since she wasn’t even overweight, let alone obese.
A friend of Love, 44, told the News of the World: “Courtney keeps laughing to her friends and saying, “Everyone thinks I’ve had hypnosis but why bother with all that effort? All I did was check myself in and have a fat band fitted.”
“Courtney has always had problems with her appearance and is convinced she is ugly and fat. Two years ago she had a gastric band fitted at a surgery in Beverly Hills. Lots of doctors refused to do it as she was nowhere near obese, just a little overweight, but eventually she found one. And as soon as she had the operation the excess weight started to drop off her. Now she is just skin and bones and looks terrible.”
I’m not sure what to think of this story… it could just all be rumors since it originally came from a tabloid. Or perhaps it is just a publicity stunt. Or perhaps it is truth… in which case, that would be very sad!
Here is another photo of Courtney Love doing some shopping in Malibu last week… she doesn’t look super-skinny (or emaciated as some stories are claiming) to me - just average. (Am I missing something?)
wow!!
Gosh… she looks good - maybe I should get a gastric band fitted too!
The man’s finger looks like his ______ing Courtney.
shes convinced shes ugly and fat? hmmm… im convinced shes right about being ugly.
Maybe she should get a face bypass?
i was just looking at bikini pics of her with this story and she doesnt look super skinny or emaciated by any means.
here, in the first pic she looks awful (what is going on in her stomache area) but she looks somewhat ok in the other pic
im a huge fan of courtney but dont think she looks so great (the bikini pics were a little scary actually)
also i am not really believing this story
i luve her body!
when she is lean..i believe she has the perfect figure!
luve ya courtney!
I want those freaking boots, with the pants and the tank!!
She doesn’t look scary or too thin in these pictures. I would say the story is made up but Hollywood is so crazy that I wouldn’t doubt it.
She looks like a messy 6-year old girl.
she’s scary and gross.
Hot Mess.
Yes, you’re missing a lot. “Average” is not Courtney Love. Average, in this country, is a size 8-12, not a starved-down, lap-banded, washed-up-aging-ex-rock-star size 2. Sheesh.
beckster she’s not a size 2 and on my college campus a size 0-4 is average not to mention it’s impossible for me to ever find my size (2) it always sells out first. so i don’t buy that the average woman is 8-12 unless we are talking about women who have had children or are over 30.
“she doesn’t look super-skinny (or emaciated as some stories are claiming) to me - just average. (Am I missing something?)”
IF YOU CALL THIS AVERAGE..THEN WOW..SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH YOU
there is nothing “average” the girl looks sick..very nasty sick!
Where do you live S?? You are so wrong.
She looks better than she did a few months ago — I have the feeling that her weight fluctuations have more to do with drugs and not a gastric band.
Oh, I thought that was a “before” picture.
I worked for a bariatric surgeon and it is possible - that ‘thing’ poking out of her stomach could be a port that they use to adjust the gastric band. I think she looks bad.
I actually did the diet that Courtney talk about she was on for two and a half months…i lost 25 lbs and started to lose weight way to fast. She said that she did it religiously for seven months so i can believe that she can get that small. I have only gained back 10lbs but am on the way of losing it agian by uping my training for a half marathon. I dont believe she got a lap band.
Size 2? No way!
I agree with Sasha. If she had surgery, where are the scars? She has an awful belly due to quick weight loss and lack of exercise but no scars are visible.
I bet she pissed News of the World about something and their working policy is to take revenge publishing false stories.
She is less skeletal than she has been recently. Her belly looks a little bloated in the first picture. She has a similar look to Madonna.
I don’t know where you live, S but the average woman in college where I live (meaning 18-24) is definitely not a size 0-4.
I don’t think COurtney love looks like she had a gastric band or anything. She just looks thin.
she looks a little chubbier than last time…
Well, she HAS had a kid and she IS over 30! Not to mention her own “average” size seems to be very close to the national - at least an 8.
The average woman (in America) is 5′4″ and wears a size 14 dress. Of course, this is factoring in all kinds of women, not just nubile, image-conscious college students.
That rumor’s been circulating for almost a couple of years now.
The outfit… she looks so uncomfortable: the wool cap pushing down on her forehead, the over-sized glasses pushed up against her face, the shirt falling off the shoulders, the tee clinging, twisting and pulling on to her too tight pants, the heavy clunky boots. Jeez, lighten up your look.
i think she appears less skeletal than she has too (she was really bad at one point). that first pic is disturbing.
by whatever means she lost weight, with a gastric band or through restriction, she did it quickly and unnaturally by the looks of her appearance. she might not be “thin” or “emaciated” by other people’s terms, sure there are skinnier people out there, but the point is she looks too thin for her natural set weight. just because one girl can be a size 0-2 at her natural weight doesn’t mean someone who isn’t naturally that size can be and stay healthy. i lost about 20 pounds a couple of years ago and was a 0 but i was bonier than a healthy size 0 because i had to lose a lot of weight to get there, weight that i was not meant to lose. see what i am saying? i don’t courtney looks healthy.
Ugly and fat!!! where is this woman´s self confidence, ok she´s not the prettiest out there, but come on, do some work out eat less junk and that´s it… to think she was pretty and almost classy once…
Stay strong Frances Bean…stay strong!
I don’t believe that she looks sick in the sense that she appears to have an eating disorder - she has that skinny fat thing going on…Courtney’s just not a healthy looking person period i.e, pale and pasty as hell(it was only make up and hot flashes from the drugs that gave her any color).
She used to look scary skinny a few months ago. She def put on a few! She always looks bad though.
Glad to see that college you’re going to is giving you such a solid education, s. With deductive reasoning skills like that, you’re sure to go far.
In other news, it appears that Ms. Love had a lobotomy, not gastric bypass surgery.
She has never been anything to look at. And the tradition continues.
there’s no doubt that she had hypnosis.
about a year ago she was on russell brand’s radio show on bbc radio2 when hypnotist)paul mckenna was also a guest. it was obvious that they already knew each other really well and he also mentioned that she does regular sessions with him to help her with her weight.
LOL Cossey, so true
s, don’t know where you go to college but my college campus is full of “real” average girls. 0-4 is not average. No-where!
S, I completely agree with you. People on this site make such a fuss about celebrities being skinny. If a girl is skinny, then she must have an eating disorder…not true! A LOT of girls in my college campus are naturally a size 0-4. So unless a good 70% of the girls in my university have an eating disorder, I think that the majority of women in their early 20s and late teens are not a size 8-10.
Sorry S, seems like you haven’t seen “real” women. At my college, the smallest size is probably a 2. And actually, college age women do not make up the majority of women in the US. So, with that said, the average size of women in the US varies between a size 8-12. Think before you speak! Otherwise you may offend some of this website’s more endearing fans.
she is just grose full stop.
0-4 average on a college campus? nooo.. I’d say on mine, it’s like 4-10..
She looks fine honestly, aside from some bad plastic surgery (which should be enough to thrown anyone off another cosmetic procedure) I think it’s just a shitty rumour.
OH MY!! This woman is a mess…is she still on drugs?? She looks like she needs help ASAP!!
I don’t believe the surgery rumor. She’s thin and looks fine, good for her.
What about those bikini pics a few weeks ago?? She looked like Nicole Richie only taller…a total bag of bones with saggy skin from losing too much weight!
Her face looks weird too…
S, you may be thin, but I don’t think you actually know what “average” means. An “average” is a collection of figures from the absolute lowest to the absolute highest, added up and divided by the number of figures originally sampled. Therefore, no, I seriously doubt the “average” in your college - or in the college age group - is a 0-4. The average woman is, as a previous posted stated, 5′4″ and a size 14. To say that anyone “a size 8-14 must be over 30 or must have kids” is naive and just plain ridiculous.
She looks skinny and bony because she is bigger boned. So no, she is not as skinny as some girls but for her, it looks gross and malnourished. She needs some extra flesh in order to look even half-way decent.
S- You merely gave your opinion and perception of things. Wow, you are completely allowed based on this being an opinion/comment forum. I can’t believe how quick everyone was to jump on the hateful bus. Way to love that fellow “average” or not sisterhood. Grow up catty girls!
thanx maenn
Huh, I sorta think she looks pretty thin in these pictures. Obviously skeletal, but not healthy, in my opinion. On a slightly different note, her face looks terrible!
oops! I meant obviously not skeletal
Size 0 to 4 is very skinny to slim. I’d say size 6 (at least) and above is “average”. And 6/8 can be slim, too. It’s more about how your weight is proportioned than anything, because size varies! I am a 0/2 but my weight fluctuates a lot, so the size I wear can be up to a four at times, even if it’s larger on me. But most girls I know aren’t all 0-4 and if they are, it’s because they don’t overeat and exercise regularly… and I’m 17. So, the same goes for college girls. Unless S goes to a college with a bunch of eating disordered girls, it’s not the norm.
There’s a BIG difference between lapband and gastric bypass…and they are two different things. And yeah college kids aren’t normal. They generally have poor diets, drink most of their calories and walk miles across campus…therefore probably a size 0-4, and most of them are still girls, not womanly at all. And if they are size 0-4 they are probably also petite girls, as in short. Courtney Love has to be 5′8″ish And yeah she’d def have scars, though they did just figure out how to do the lapband with one or two holes….odd…
I’m in college and I have a lapband, so…
I would do some really dirty, kinky stuff to this skinny skank.
Shevy can i ask you what is Corthey Love’s diet? I never really heard of it.
she looks like death, plus i can’t get over what she did to kurt. everytime i see her i think about it.
I was going to ask the same as Oksana. Shevy, can you tell us about her diet?
“Or perhaps it is truth… in which case, that would be very sad!” why is it sad when someone opts for a gastric band? A gastric band is one way of losing weight so if you want to do it that way why not?
Looks like a gross Madonna to me.
i love this woman!
i met her back in may and she was very bony, more so than you’d think. she is tall though, and has wide shoulders.
the thing about the lap band is that yo only have to be 50 lbs overweight to get it…which isn’t obese…so its not THAT unsafe, but Im surprised she found a doctor that performed it, bc at her heaviest, though super fat by hollwood standards….I dont think she was 50 lbs overweight.
One of the saddest examples of what insecurity can do to a person.
Hole was a great band. Such a shame.
Ugly hair and outfit,a bit chubby.
she was drink protein shake replacements from Isopure for lunch and dinner, fruit for one snack. Steam fish and veggies for dinner…and lots of water. That was her diet listed in an magazine article and when they came to her house she was drinking the protein shake. You can get them at GNC
she look sort of pretty much dead. She DOES look like she has an ED - you’re so used to looking at naturally small/medium girls who starve themselves down/overexercise that you don’t know a naturally bigger girl looks like when she’s emaciated. Look at her shoulders. This is what women with her body type look like when they had severe EDs.
what a AC/DC look…..
Maybe S goes to some school in California or something, because there are so many women in LA who have eating disorders. I go to school at a place that has an EXTREMELY hilly campus and both here and the school I transferred from, most of the girls were probably a 4 - 16, with an average right around a 10.
ANYWAY - I think what I’d like to do with Courtney is throw her in the shower, scrub her hair down and treat it for lice, then take her straight to rehab, where she wouldn’t be able to leave for at least a year. I mean, the woman did heroin while she was pregnant! There’s no way she’s stopped now.
You’re an idiot. A gastric BAND is not the same as Gastric BYPASS.
Get some sense you total loser. Common sense isn’t hard to find. Maybe you should get someone to proof read your articles before you post them.
You have no idea what you’re talking about.