Maury Povich, 87, Says He's Never Had Plastic Surgery and Yes, That's All His Hair: 'I Don't Know How'
Maury Povich, 87, Says He's Never Had Plastic Surgery and Yes, That's All His Hair: 'I Don't Know How'
Catherine SantinoThu, April 30, 2026 at 2:47 PM UTC
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During a conversation with Ricki Lake on his podcast On Par with Maury Povich, Maury Povich revealed that he's never had any plastic surgery
The former Maury host also said his hair is all natural
Povich launched his podcast in March 2025, telling PEOPLE that the platform was an opportunity for fans to get to know him on a deeper level
Maury Povich is au naturel.
On the Monday, April 27, episode of his podcast, On Par with Maury Povich, Povich, 87, sat down with fellow talk show veteran Ricki Lake. During the conversation, Lake, 57, asked the host if he'd ever had any plastic surgery.
"Zero," Povich replied.
He also confirmed that his hair is 100 percent real, adding, "I don't know how."
"I mean, even my father's hair, he lived until 92, it thinned out," Povich continued. "My brother's hair thinned out. My sister has hair like yours, perfect hair."
Lake said she's "grateful" to still have hair.
"But it's still my Achilles heel," she added. "I'm not self-conscious anymore, per se, but it's a journey. I'm grateful I feel good in my body, I don't have pain, I feel youthful, and I'm really happy. I'm a really happy person."
Lake previously opened up about "impulsively" deciding to have a face and neck lift in July 2024.
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“I had just lost 40 pounds, and I had this, this, this, hanging,” she said on the March 16 episode of The Inside Edit while grabbing at her neck. “And it wasn't just like, that I didn't like what I saw or wanted to look younger. I have gray hair. It's not about that. It's like I had an appendage hanging that wasn't going to grow back, like come back up.”
She confirmed the procedure in June 2025 during an episode of Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen.
Povich launched his podcast in March 2025, telling PEOPLE that the platform was an opportunity for fans to get to know him on a deeper level.
"A lot of the guests came on the show because they felt they could relieve their burden," Povich said of Maury, which ran from 1991 to 2022. "They felt that they could create a safe space with me and that I was a good person to talk to, and it was almost like I was a member of their family. I didn't have the opportunity to talk about myself and my feelings and my experiences."
Maury Povich.Credit: Jamie McCarthy/Getty
Povich, who got his start in news journalism, also reflected: "For the past 30-plus years, everybody has thought of me as a kind of a talk show host who [discusses] certain themes. That was a great career, and I love the storytelling, and I think that I was able to do successfully because of my earlier career as a journalist and a storyteller when it came to news, and rather traditional talk shows that I did."
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"If I was sitting at a desk back anchoring a newscast, I would never unveil myself. And so this is, I think, a perfect medium," he added.
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