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Gene Simmons

Gene Simmons, Shannon Tweed Get His-and-Her Facelifts

By Maureen Harrington

Originally posted Monday March 19, 2007 03:45 PM EDT

Two weeks after surgery: Simmons with Tweed, getting a Botox injection from Dr. Ryan Photo by: JEFF MINTON

But there was nothing phony about the scalpels. Simmons was on the table for 11 hours as Dr. Ryan and his team hoisted his jowls, tweaked his eyelids and liposuctioned around his pecs. The next day, Tweed got a facelift and lower lid adjustment.

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Tweed says she can't look at the video, but Simmons did. "I saw Dr. Ryan reach under my skin and massage the muscles of my face," he reports. "It was like my face was peeled off and slung over my shoulder."

Wisecracks aside, the couple's two kids, Nick, 18, and Sophie, 14, were genuinely concerned. "I was terrified for my mom," says Nick. "I was afraid they would pull a Joan Crawford, and she would look like she was running in high wind."

Adds Sophie, "My parents have looked the same my whole life. I was afraid they wouldn't look like my parents anymore."

Simmons came home several days later, his head bandaged and his face so swollen Nick said with evident horror, "You look like that guy from the Karate Kid ... Pat Morita." "Thanks, Nick," retorted Simmons. "He's dead."

Sophie simply left the room in tears. "He looked like he had been in a bad car accident," she says.

Tweed remained hospitalized for a few more days with extreme pain following her procedures. "I got a throat infection," she says. "But it took my mind off the face lift."

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