Bristol Palin's Face Likely the Product of a Lot of Procedures and Pain

By Sheila Marikar

What did Bristol Palin go through to get that face?

This week, Sarah Palin's eldest daughter revealed that her slimmer, more angular facade is the result of "corrective jaw surgery" -- "not plastic surgery" -- that she underwent last December.

"It improved the way I look, but this surgery was necessary for medical reasons ... so my jaw and teeth could properly realign. ... I don't obsess over my face," Palin, 20, told Us Weekly magazine.

"I am absolutely thrilled with the results," she added. "I look older, more mature, and don't have as much of a chubby, little baby face!"

Getting rid of that "chubby, little baby face" may have cost as much as $10,000 and required months of recovery. One surgeon said that if Palin indeed went under the knife to fix her teeth, she likely had a mandibular osteotomy, a procedure in which the lower jaw is broken and realigned. (Insurance sometimes covers the surgery, but not always.)