A new book alleges that 2016 Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton had a face-lift before beginning her campaign, at the behest of her husband and former President Bill Clinton.
Journalist Ed Klein writes in his new book "Unlikeable: The Problem With Hillary" that Bill Clinton "wanted her to get a face-lift," according to The Daily Mail.
The 67-year-old Clinton "couldn't do anything about the calendar – she'd be 69 years old in 2016 – but she could do something about the lines and sagging skin on her face," Klein wrote.
Clinton, however, "had no intention of going to a clinic" to get the work done, so she asked a prominent plastic surgeon to come to her home in Chappaqua, New York to perform the surgery. It was there that Klein says the surgeon set up a "mini operating room ... with the latest medical equipment."
"She had her cheeks lifted and her wrinkles and lines Botoxed ... She had work done on her eyes as well as on her neck and forehead," Klein wrote.
Quoting one of Clinton's friends, Klein said that the former secretary of state "took it gradually and didn't have anything drastic done, because she wanted to evaluate the changes as she proceeded."
"If it had started to make her look weird, she would have stopped it immediately. It was a pretty bid deal and required multiple visits," the friend reportedly told Klein.
Clinton's campaign spokesman Nick Merrill didn't comment on the face-lift accusations, but said of Klein's new book, "Someone should do a book about Ed. They could call it 'Bullshit: The Problem With Anything Ed Klein Writes,'" reports The New York Post.
"The only true thing about him is his consistent and utter lack of a relationship with the facts," Merrill said. "He has more hair than credibility, and the man is bald. So we're not going to get down in the gutter with him and his outrageous fabrications."
Klein goes on to reveal in the book that Clinton, also upon the insistence of her husband, grudgingly enlisted Steven Spielberg to coach her on how to improve her image on the campaign trail, but eventually trashed the "likeability lesson" as the race for the Democratic nomination progressed, according to Newsmax.
"I get $250,000 to give a speech and these Hollywood jackasses are going to tell me how to do it!" Klein quoted Clinton's friend as saying.
Bill Clinton reportedly told his wife: "Your policies and talking points are solid. You can use Charlotte [Chelsea's baby daughter] to emphasize how you're all about women and children."
"Now, the challenge is to repackage you in 2016 as a strong but loveable older woman – more Golda [Meir] than Maggie [Thatcher]," Bill said.
Hillary responded, "I'm not going to pretend to be somebody I'm not."
She became unsatisfied and exasperated with the results of the coaching lessons and eventually quit.
"Sometimes they're helpful," she reportedly told friends of Spielberg's people, "but just as often, they're full of shit."
"I decided I had enough with the camera and the recordings and the coaches," Clinton told a friend, according to Klein. "I got so angry I knocked the fucking camera off its tripod. That was the end of my Stanislavski period."
