Julie Chen Moonves spares no element concerning the aftermath of her departure from The Speak — and the facelift she bought consequently — in her new audiobook, However First, God.
Chen Moonves, 53, recalled feeling like she was “robbed” and “wronged” when she left the daytime collection in 2018 after eight years of moderating the discuss present. “I felt like so many individuals that I beloved and trusted or thought had been mates … wow, they did me so soiled,” she famous.
The TV persona was 48 on the time of her exit. “Whenever you work in entrance of the tv and you’re a lady, you’re anticipated to look … I’m simply gonna say it: younger. You’re anticipated to be pleasing to the attention and society, particularly Hollywood is just not type on ageing girls,” she continued. “And I knew a part of my bread and butter being in entrance of the digital camera was to take care of how I regarded, keep out of the solar, placed on sunblock and sure, if I’ve to, go below the knife.”
Chen Moonves selected to get a “decrease facelift,” partially as a result of she was “anticipated to look not drastically completely different” from how followers have seen her on their screens, however the process additionally had a deeper which means.
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“I feel I did it as a type of therapeutic, a type of [proving], ‘These meanies can’t get me down. I’m gonna look so good once I come again on the air,’” she defined. “You know the way some individuals, once they get damaged up with by a beloved one, they get a revenge physique? Properly, I wished to get a revenge face.”
‘The Speak’ TV personalities (L-R) Sheryl Underwood, Sara Gilbert, Sharon Osbourne, Aisha Tyler, and Julie Chen attend the CBS Upfront 2012 at The Tent at Lincoln Heart on Might 16, 2012 in New York Metropolis. Eugene Gologursky/Getty Pictures
Chen Moonves thought the beauty surgical procedure can be adequately subtle that her supporters — and even her haters — would merely assume she was “fabulous and rested.” She continued, “However leaving one in every of my physician’s appointments trying completely unrecognizable and utterly bandaged up like a mummy, little did I do know I bought caught by the paparazzi.”
Her exit from The Speak got here days after her husband, Les Moonves, was axed from CBS. On the time, greater than a dozen girls accused him of sexual misconduct. He denied the allegations, and Chen Moonves publicly stood by his facet.
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“He has all the time been a form, respectable and ethical human being,” she tweeted in 2018, calling Moonves, 73, “a very good man and a loving father, devoted husband and galvanizing company chief.”
Julie Chen and Les Moonves Michael Tran/FilmMagic
In However First, God, Chen Moonves shed extra gentle concerning the couple’s departures, referring to herself as “collateral injury” and hinting that the choice to depart The Speak wasn’t totally her personal. Whereas confirming her departure in 2018, she claimed in a video message that she wished “to spend extra time at residence with [her] husband.” Chen Moonves has continued to host CBS’ Massive Brother, which kicked off its twenty fifth season in August.
