Posted 30 minutes agoSubscribe to BuzzFeed Daily NewsletterCaret Down34 Times Celebs Took "Beauty Is Pain" Wayyy Too SeriouslyGwyneth Paltrow said, "Generally, I'm open to anything. I've been stung by bees. It's a thousands of years old treatment called apitherapy... Man, it's painful."by Kristen HarrisBuzzFeed StaffFacebookPinterestLink We've all heard the saying "beauty is pain," and unfortunately, that sentiment has been way too normalized (especially for women). Way too often, putting yourself through discomfort or injury is praised for the sake of beauty standards - especially in Hollywood. Here are 34 times celebrities took "beauty is pain" way too seriously: 1. In 2025, Suki Waterhouse tweeted, "'suki you never tweet anymore' have you ever considered I wore pants so tight 6 months ago it caused a hernia & I've been too scared to tell you." She also shared a picture of herself wearing said pants onstage (you can see it here). Suki Waterhouse / Via x.com 2. Sofía Vergara's red carpet looks often cause her to bleed. In 2016, she told Net-A-Porter, "My body has changed with age. People will often say that I wear the same thing on the red carpet, but I know my body: it's very voluptuous, and I've got the boobs of a stripper. They're a 32DDD, and because they're real, they're everywhere, so I need my dresses to have structure - and under armor. There is so much going on under my dresses that I bleed at the end of award ceremonies. In ten years, I think it would be good to have a reduction. I don't think it's even going to be an option not to have surgery, because I'm going to start having back pains. I wouldn't make them too small - just enough that I don't end up looking like an old stripper." Todd Williamson / Getty Images 3. In 2022, Jennifer Coolidge told Allure, "For The White Lotus, I didn't want to look like a big, white marshmallow on the beach in Hawaii, so I got a spray tan. I got on the plane, and I started to feel really weird. By the time I got off the flight, I had to go to the emergency room. [During the production], I think we ended up using regular makeup. The minute we stopped filming, I would shower." HBO / Via youtube.com 4. In 2016, Gwyneth Paltrow told the New York Times, "Generally, I'm open to anything. I've been stung by bees. It's a thousands of years old treatment called apitherapy. People use it to get rid of inflammation and scarring. It's actually pretty incredible if you research it. But, man, it's painful." (Note: According to the BBC, researchers say bee sting therapy is "unsafe and unadvisable.") Daniele Venturelli / Getty Images for LACMA 5. In 2022, Zac Efron told Men's Health, "That Baywatch look, I don't know if that's really attainable. There's just too little water in the skin. Like, it's fake; it looks CGI'd. And that required Lasix, powerful diuretics, to achieve. So I don't need to do that. I much prefer to have an extra, you know, 2 to 3 percent body fat." Paramount Pictures / Via youtube.com The process also impacted his mental health. He said, "I started to develop insomnia, and I fell into a pretty bad depression, for a long time. Something about that experience burned me out. I had a really hard time recentering. Ultimately they chalked it up to taking way too many diuretics for way too long, and it messed something up." Frank Masi/ (C) Paramount Pictures / courtesy Everett Collection 6. In 2011, Joan Collins wore a Georges Hobeika dress that was so tight, she had to be rushed from the Vanity Fair Oscars Party to the hospital. In an essay for the Daily Mail, she reportedly wrote, "Next thing I knew, I was surrounded by some rather attractive firefighters who were asking me questions such as: 'What's your name?' (as if they didn't know) and 'How old are you?' (which I refused to answer). Apparently, I had fainted in [her husband] Percy's arms, and he, in a panic, had asked security to call an ambulance - which was roomier than [her sister] Jackie's limo and, thanks to the sirens, much swifter in Hollywood traffic. Not quite how I had expected to end this glamorous night!" Jon Kopaloff / FilmMagic / Via Getty "Nevertheless, I put myself in the care of professionals at the hospital's Emergency Room. There, after an hour of tests, the doctors discharged me with stern admonishments not to wear such tight dresses - and to eat in future if I was expected to last the pace at the fabulous Vanity Fair party," she said. Mark Sullivan / WireImage / Via Getty 7. Before she was a megastar, Cardi B got illegal butt injections at a basement apartment in Queens for $800. In 2018, she told GQ, "They don't numb your ass with anything. It was the craziest pain ever. I felt like I was gonna pass out. I felt a little dizzy. And it leaks for, like, five days." Michael Hickey / Getty Images However, she later had 95 percent of them surgically removed and warned her fans to never get the procedure done. In a 2022 Instagram Live, she said, "All I'm going to say is that if you're young,