Olympian McKayla Maroney denies getting lip injections: do you believe her?

Posted by Lashay Rain on Wednesday, May 15, 2024

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A photo posted by McKayla Maroney (@mckaylamaroney) on Jul 15, 2016 at 11:27pm PDT

Ugh, I do not relish this discussion. McKayla Maroney is an Olympic medalist in gymnastics. She won a gold medal and a silver medal at the London Olympics, and she is retired from gymnastics now. You may also remember her because her “not amused” face went viral when she won silver. McKayla actually recreated the face with Pres. Obama following the Olympics, and that photo went viral as well.

So, McKayla is retired from gymnastics, but she still came out for the Olympic trials a few weeks ago to watch the new young women vie for spots on the team. When cameramen panned to McKayla in the audience, suddenly everyone asked themselves, “Did McKayla Maroney have some work done?” Suddenly the sporty young woman was replaced with a pouty Megan Fox-lookalike and people noticed. It became a talking point, and many outlets ran stories about McKayla’s “new look” and whether she had gotten some work done to her face. So McKayla has given an interview to say that no, she hasn’t had anything done.

What she wants people to know about the rumors that she’s had lip injections: “First of all, that I haven’t. And I’ve posted a picture on Instagram last night that was like, how do I make my face look like I didn’t do anything to my face when I literally have not done anything to my face? Growing up in the social media world, it’s tough. Your face changes, you get older, your face fills out, and you fall into liking makeup and different stuff like that. And for people saying that, for the most part — it would kind of hurt my feelings when you haven’t done anything. You just kind of have to keep being yourself and move forward with what you love. I just haven’t had anything to give to people, so they’re almost just picking at anything that they can to find something to talk about me for. It’s just one of those things right now and you just have to keep moving forward.

[From Seventeen]

I spent some time looking through McKayla’s Instagram and… sigh. It’s not good. She’s 20 years old and she can do what she wants, that’s not my issue. My issue is that her Instagram seems to be full of Lolita-esque photos of McKayla making duck lips in bikinis or provocatively sucking on smoothie straws while wearing low-cut blouses. Again, that’s her choice and so be it. She can do whatever she wants. But she definitely has a “new image,” and I do think that lip injections are a part of it. She hasn’t veered into Kylie Jenner territory, but yeah… I do think she’s gotten some stuff done.

Also, having read the full Seventeen interview, I now know that McKayla is an actress, and she’s working on an album. She says her biggest sound-influence is Drake. Huh.

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Photos courtesy of McKayla’s Instagram.

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