“Desperate Housewives” star Dana Delany confessed she had a very traumatic experience with Botox and vowed to never get plastic surgery to try to improve her appearance as an aging woman/actress in Hollywood.

In an interview for Prevention Magazine, the 54 year-old told how Botox killed one of the nerves on her face, affected a muscle and how her right eye has started to drop as a result of an experience gone wrong several years ago.

Dana said, “Seven years ago, I had never heard of Botox. My dermatologist was saying, ‘You should try it.’ He injected my forehead, hit a nerve, and created a huge hematoma. The nerve has been dead ever since. It affected the muscle in my right eye, so my eye has started to droop a little bit.”

“I won’t do it [plastic surgery], no. My hat’s off to Jamie Lee Curtis. She’s so smart, and she doesn’t dye her hair or anything. And Meryl Streep still looks like herself. Diane Keaton, too. I think the really great actresses don’t worry about that kind of thing.”

Dana also revealed she was an insecure teenage girl and had serious weight issues, which led to an eating disorder when she was over twenty years old: “I binged. I starved. I was one step from anorexia—a piece of toast and an apple would be all I would eat in a day.” Now Dana feels better than ever.

[image: Prevention Magazine]