‘RHOSLC’ Star Heather Gay Estimates She’s Spent $200K on Cosmetic Procedures

Heather Gay is revealing how much she’s spent to achieve her desired look.

The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star, 51, detailed every cosmetic procedure she’s had and the beauty treatments that she swears by in an interview with Bustle published on Wednesday, Nov. 13.

She estimates that she’s spent at least $200,000 on her appearance and “it was worth every penny.”

“As soon as I had the money and the time, I thought: ‘I am going to try to profit from every single thing that’s available to me. I can afford it, and it’s part of my job now to look good,’ ” Gay told the publication. “I always said that I’d be so much cuter if I were richer. I’m richer now — and I’m so much cuter because of it.”

The co-owner of Beauty Lab + Laser said that she’s been getting Botox quarterly since her 30s. When it comes to beauty treatments, she also routinely has fillers, facials and laser hair removal twice a year.

Gay has been having lip filler twice a year for around seven years. 

“Another treatment I get is Sculptra, which is a collagen stimulator, with big long needles on your face. It’s pretty intense, but it’s not an actual filler; it’s just a filler stimulant,” Gay told Bustle. 

“Sculptra is $800 to $1,000 for a vial, and some people get four to six vials,” she added. “It can cost around $4,000 per treatment.”

Unhappy with her original nose, the reality TV star had two nose jobs before joining The Real Housewives franchise in 2020. She said a third would’ve taken place if her plastic surgeon hadn’t raised concerns about scar tissue.

“At that time, I also got a blepharoplasty, which is an eyelid excision for opening up your eyes,” Gay told Bustle. “I got both of these surgeries for free, from the same surgeon, but I think the nose job was around $12,000, and a blepharoplasty was $2,500.”

She said her husband at the time, Frank William ‘Billy’ Gay III, paid for her to have a “mommy makeover” – a tummy tuck and boob job. The pair, who share three daughters, divorced in 2014.

Having lost 30 pounds using weight loss medication over the last three years, Gay said she temporarily uses GLP-1s again if her weight goes up. She estimates that the medication costs at least $500 a month. 

The RHOSLC star spent around $30,000 on veneers to complete her “fourth season glow-up” as she believes looking “perfect” is a requirement of her reality television career.

“I think there should be no shame in people wanting to change the way they look, but I also see that the standard of beauty has become more and more artificial for women,” Gay told Bustle. “Being on TV, it’s really, really hard to see yourself constantly and to be amongst women who are physically flawless in every way.”

“Everyone has perfect teeth, lashes, and hair,” she added. “It’s what I call the required uniform of a Housewife — and as you become more of a Housewife, it becomes more entrenched.”

In December last year, Gay admitted that she had more confidence before losing weight and in the earlier days of RHOSLC. which is currently airing its sixth season.

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She told ABC News’ Deborah Roberts, “I look at those pictures of myself and those episodes and think, I love that girl. That girl was braver and stronger and had more confidence being overweight than I did after taking medication.”

Gay also discussed her past comments that people have made her feelas though she’s “given up the banner” of being a “relatable” figure for her body image journey.

“I never realized how much my weight affected the way people treated me,” she said. “But I have loved all the versions of myself and I feel like body positivity wasn’t a lie for me. It changed my life. It allowed me to be on TV, it gave me this chance.”

All three episodes of season 1 of Surviving Mormonism with Heather Gay are streaming on Peacock.