OMAROSA'S BIG NEWS!
No matter how obvious the change, most celebs try to keep their plastic surgery top secret. But not former Apprentice contestant Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth! The 32-year-old reality-show villain was happy to tell Star all about her recent boob job, which she underwent in March as part of the Discovery Channel's new show, Plastic Surgery Before and After.
"I did it this way to avoid speculation," she tells Star. "I've seen people be dishonest about it. Little girls will try to emulate them and don't know they've gotten breast augmentations, Botox, and this and that."
On the show, viewers get a double dose of Manigaults — Omarosa's mom, Theresa, also goes under the knife for the cameras. The 64-year-old outdoes her daughter by getting a boob job plus liposuction and a tummy tuck.
Denying that she'd had work done would have been a stretch for the formerly petite Omarosa. "It's such a dramatic difference," she says. "I was a negative A cup. I was going concave. Now I'm a small D.
Omarosa got to choose her own surgeons, and went with Dr. Michael Niccole and Dr. Ghada Afafi of Newport Beach, Calif. "As a woman of color, I had serious concerns about scarring and looking as natural as possible — these folks specialize in women of color."
For Omarosa, surgery was easy. "I remember them counting me down as I went under, and I remember waking up and feeling like someone was sitting on my chest!" But she was camera-ready in no time. "I got my surgery on a Sunday and was on the red carpet by Saturday," Omarosa tells Star.
Omarosa and her boyfriend — whom she won't name — are thrilled with her bigger proportions. "I'm happy, I'm excited, I'm pleased with my decision," she says. "For the guy I'm dating it's fantastic — he calls it 'the gift that keeps on giving!'"
But there are naysayers, too. "Plastic surgery is pretty taboo in the black community," she says. "I've gotten a lot of flack from people who say 'Why would you want to change what God gave you?'"
Her new look is also harder to fit. "I did the Black Movie Awards on Sunday and there were only two dresses that were possibilities because now I'm big-busted with a small waist. I'm not fitting into couture."
As she tries to make the transition from small to big screen, it's unclear whether Omarosa will be able to bust out of her villainous image. (You can watch her play a butt-kicking heroine online in the short film Souls Sistahs at soulsistahs.com.) "All the scripts I look at have me playing the bad girl — a bitchy lawyer or an evil superhero type. I could go down that route for the rest of my life."
— JENNIFER PEARSON
