‘The View’ Hosts React to Rosie O’Donnell’s Facelift: Who Was ‘Surprised’ and Who Respected Her Honesty?

The View co-hosts are weighing in on one of their own.

On Friday, May 29, Joy Behar, Alyssa Farah Griffin, Sara Haines, Sunny Hostin and Ana Navarro sat down to discuss a recent Hot Topic: Rosie O’Donnell‘s confession that she’d secretly undergone a facelift — a decision that she deemed a “betrayal of feminism [and] of aging.”

The 64-year-old comedian and former talk show host served as a moderator on The View from 2006 to 2007 before briefly returning for a season in 2014.

“I’m just surprised that someone as strong and funny and interesting as Rosie equated having work done to being anti-feminist,” said Hostin, 57, per TV Insider.

“If you look in the mirror, and you are miserable day after day, and you can’t get past that, it really is up to you,” added Haines, 48.

“I respect it when celebrities share what they’ve got done,” Griffin, 36, shared. “It means a lot to me, personally, as someone who struggled with body image. You scroll through Instagram, and, ‘Why does everyone look so much better? … Why does she look thinner?’ When people are honest that they had a little help, I think it helps a lot of people.”

As In Touch previously reported, O’Donnell came clean to her 1.2 million Instagram followers on Tuesday, May 26.

“I used to feel very strongly about facelifts. Not casually — morally. I had assigned myself as head of all women who would never — ever,” she explained. “I thought it was a betrayal. Of feminism. Of aging. Of our team of women worldwide.”

It wasn’t until the A League Of Their Own star lost 50 pounds that she had a change of heart.

“It wasn’t wrinkles — it was gravity,” she wrote. “I’d look in the mirror and think, this isn’t aging, this is… melting with intention.”

O’Donnell went on to share a before-and-after photo of the results in a subsequent post, and expanded upon her decision to go under the knife on Substack, revealing, per People, that the procedure “cost more money than I have ever paid for a car.”

And yet, no one noticed.

“Not one person. Not a friend, not a stranger, not even people who owe me compliments,” she joked. “My teen daughter has not said a word. Nothing. I went through a full existential feminist crisis, had my face and neck surgically altered, and the result is… zippo.”