Haha.. I knew this would come up sooner or later.

Well, I'm a fan of Da Hae. So I've seen this wayyy back during her MG days. Apparently the picture has always been available online, and ppl already drew comparisons during her Green Rose days, and post MG-days..using this picture and her current pictures. This is just another rehash of the same thing all over again.

I'm not gonna say 100% that she's never done surgery before. And if my memory doesn't fail me, I don't recall her every affirming or denying rumors of surgery? But I may be wrong as I may have forgotten some stuff...

I still love her tho... doesn't matter that whether she has done surgery or not. And if she did, the surgeon must deserve some credits huh? In another forum, some ppl were even complimenting the skills of the surgeon...=P

Here's another picture of Da Hae during her pageant days..
http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/7750/33354844.jpg

I don't dislike her nor really like her. I tend to keep a neutral feeling. So I think it's not that I don't like her that I'm saying this or that I like her that I'm defending her.

Based on the pictures, make-up and bad qualities aside, there is an apparent difference between her eyes and her nose. Her nose bridge seems rather taller and her eyes bigger. I agree that if she lose weight her cheeks will be smaller too. I have similar nose as hers so I can tell that you can't grow it (lol) or even use make-up to actually make it look bigger. Jawline, however, and cheek bones can be made to look bigger or smaller with make-up and the way the hair is done. I'm not a make-up person but it doesn't take one to see that.

Whatever, it is not like it affects how she acts. :D I just find it rather cool that she is natural. If not, I find it rather "common" nowadays for stars to desire cosmetic surgery to beautify themselves.

her acting skills are good, very talented BUT she likes to act cute !

never think she is uniquely pretty.

nor matter how you want to bluff yourself about your K female idols : most K actresses share same nose, eyes and mouth :p from the same mould :p

I could go either way. The roundness of her face is what strikes me the most, but if she really was 17 here, that would defnitely explain it. I know that I hadn't lost all my baby fat by then--on my drivers license my face is a moon. Now? Not at all.

Yikes...I thought it was two different people....

wow! i couldn't recognize even a bit of lee da hae in the 2001 pix..she looks soooo different back then. well, we all looked different 8 years ago but the again...

definitely her and yes she had her nose and eyes done. I guess now, I really feel like the Korean beauty are not "100% " natural. I used to thought "only the real beauty can climb up the stage and become a star. now with the plastic fantastic. I just wish to see how their kids will look like. such and such will get married. and the girl is soooooooo beautiful, their kids will be blessed with good looking face. yeah right.!

What the heck? it doesn't look like the same person. She must have done plastic surgery on her eyes and her nose for sure, and maybe her lips. I no longer know whether Korean celeb is natural or enhanced anymore. To me, plastic surgery or not is irrelevant so long you are not so obsessive with plastic like say Michael Jackson, I care more for their inner beauty and talent. Entertainment industry is fierce and highly competitive. To stay current, one is inevitably forced to "fix" their beauty. so sad though. This is why I always think that all korean celebrities look alike. I read somewhere that statistically only 1/4 koreans are naturally born with double eye lids. Almost all Korean female celebrities have double eyelids. Either 1/4 of the population chose a profession as an actor or the celebrities have done some eye surgery hehehe

i always knew it that shes not a natural beauty. because she's one of the actress which ive never seen her childhood photos before.
now that isee it, her eyes were really small. and she was so ugly! not even close to her looks now. she really did have plastic surgery.

It is so sad when you see women resort to plastic surgery to make them feel better. I notice that Korean actresses and actors prefer caucasian look such as big eyes, tall skinny nose, and big lips, etc. I actually find Korean actresses and actors with small slanted eye (with or without eyelids) to be as attractive if not more so that those with big caucasian eyes. I also prefer black hair to dyed hair. I don't understand why some Koreans are trying to be as "white" as possible when having "oriental" look is very unique and beautiful. Some of my friends make such a big deal about having double eyelids. I may be bias (since I have double eyelids), but I know many pretty women without double eyelids and ugly women with double eyelids. When I explained this fuss about double eyelids to my caucasian friend, he looked at me really funny and said "I have never noticed that some asians don't have the lines above their eyes" hahaha.. Sometimes we are being too critical to ourselves.

Doesn't look like her at all....I think it is a totally different person. Please make sure to check your facts before posting.

omg. the 1st time i saw the pic, i thought it was some ahjumma with heavy makeup on. i really cant believe it was LDH! I believe 100% she did plastic surgery. so shes not in the natural beauty list anymore.

too bad, that her old pictures/videos are founded. i think, she's been hiding it well before.

she, for sure, had eye surgery
as for her jaw and cheekbones, she just lost alot of weight and now they show more.

im not really her fan because i find shes always overacting, but sometimes i always admire how beauty she is. now that i know shes plastic, theres nothing to admire anymore. because anyone can be pretty with plastic, whats there to admire?

Hmm, I think Lee Da Hae lost weight, lightened the makeup and to me it looks like she reshaped her eyebrows. Maybe she did her eyes? They look a bit different but then again gotta take into account her facial expression @ the time it was taken. But then again I'm not a good spotter of "who's done what"

she was only 17 in that pageant, so if she is 25/26 right now her face/figure/appearance will change. Well her eyes totally changed, But her nose looks the same to me! And for her jaw and cheeks i think she just lost her baby fats.
and If you compare LDH in EOE to LDH in Robbers and Hello!MIss, you can really see the difference.
Getting older and Loosing weight can change a bit of your looks!

and here's her picture when she was a teen
http://i43.tinypic.com/13zao2w.jpg

Those who said she didn't get plastic are in denial. She's 100% enhanced. Now I wonder if my favorite actress is natural or not. Hm.

^ I think she really did plastic surgery. Yeah, makeup can make u look different but it cant make ur nose higher and eyes wider right? It could only make it "looks" higher and wider.

i would not have been able to recognize her if you didnt label the picture. she looks so DIFFERENT

#66, That's not LDH. She's someone else ahahaha. I would believe that her jawbone and cheek might be different due to weight loss, but her eyes and her nose, it's hard to argue that they grew bigger and more defined.

and women's body structure (including face) doesnt change much after 18.

I can't believe peoples and fans who said that she looks the same. I thought it was the different people.

It was very obvious that she got a nose and eyes job. No doubt. Even a makeup, can't cover her difference in the nose. Ages, didn't changes our basic i.e eyes and nose.

But her cheek and chin was the same.

to me, it doesnt matter if she had had plastic surgery or not, they all do (mostly) ^^

I think the picture that Ripgal linked is quite similar to her nowadays.

Its is a common that they get a surgery it just its was unethical to deny that they did it. Admit and be wise.

wow wow. i didn't think that something like this can be so fired up. :)

lee shi-young, imo, is quite a person to speak her mind. like in variety shows, she would just be straightforward. i think that is her charm, so she won't hide that fact. she does look much prettier now. btw, junjin did say she has a temper, no? :)

@kazubaby:
hey, i also have that half-way double eyelid thing there. :)

GOD. what a difference!!!! i cant believe it was her! especially because everyone always claimed her to be natural beauty. she wasnt even close to cute/pretty at all. i was really in shock.

i just googled and actually this topic has been in discussion in 2007 wheather she did plastic surgery or not. but she DENIED it. O_o i totally lost my respect. she even lied about her being beauty?

im totally in shock right now. no wonder i've never seen her childhood pics. normally someone whos natural never hide their childhood pics.
and yet people call her "natural" beauty. well, now maybe we can call her "plastic" beauty? the fact that she didnt admit it was the worst.

She has such a funny little smile. That's the same in both pictures, at least.

ohh am so shocked when i first saw the pic i thought she was someone else
she really looks older back then like in her 30 or something, i really thought she was completely naturale and i liked her for that now i can't look to her the same as i were something changed :P

At least if you were going to do plastic, try to maintain Asian look and not go overboard with western look. That's why I like CHoi ji Woo look. I don't know if she had surgery done or not but at least her eyes and her other features still look Asian. Her eyes are still small and slanted and love her dark hair. She rarely ever changes her hairstyle and color. Lee Da Hae's eyes look fixed. I wonder if Song Hye Kyo's beauty is natural or not. I saw her young pictures and she was already gorgeous and had big eyes too.

she was soooooo UGLY before. like, VERY UGLY. she looks like ahjumma. even some ahjumma are prettier. sorry, but i just said my opinion.
and i remember in an interview, someone ask her about her beauty and she said she was born with it!! because of that, i really thought she really was natural, but now that these images released, thats so low Da Hae!

ah, no i believe it's just the eyes. At first, I thought she did a nose job, but it's the picture quality. I think her nose is still the same. The rest is baby fat all gone or something (i mean, wasn't she 17ish? here) cuz the rest are still the same, cheeck bone and yes even the jaw bone. still same. Ah, but i was hoping her eyes are also natural...grrr, oh well. still like her.

amazing. i am even prettier than her "real" self.

anyway.. i was in a real shock. i wasnt this shock when i heard about other actress, but u know.. people always call her natural before. maybe because she denied it in 2007 (#76) and said shes born with it. people really deceived about her beauty. suddenly seeing her childhood photos which is not just different, but ugly, is just too shock for me.

The old photo her make-up is simply...bad..very bad..almost like something out of a Chinese opera, so I can really judge nothing from the comparison of new and old photo. Just as make-up done well can make a pretty girl beautiful, bad make-up can do the reverse.
82 has a valid comment as girls age their features become more refined, ie losing that 'babyfat' look.
As for eyes..you simply can not tell from a photo, there are so many ways and tricks to making ones eyes look big on demand that have nothing to do with a surgeons knife.

funny for someone who said makeup changed her face. for her chubbiness, yes, she lost weight. but eyes and nose, DUH~ it was obvious they are done under knife.

her eyes were very2 small before and has no double eyelids. her nose are higher now, is that a wonder of makeup??

even if she wore the same makeup she wear today, she will never looked the same. simply because her batang is also different now and then!

i'm very upset... i thought she's fully a natural beauty.. but it doesn't change my mind.. i'll forever like her... very much..!!!!!!!

wtf is the big deal/ all actresses get surgery these days.

In my opinion, having plastic surgery is a person's right/choice. But lying about it is another story. It's as if you are ashamed about the features that have made you uniquely you and part of your identity. If she had not lied about her 'natural' beauty, maybe there won't be so many posts here.

If she had anything done, it was definitely her eyes. Weight loss can explain why her face looks smaller/thinner now as opposed to then.

I liked her so much, because I always thought she is one of the few natural beauties..but her eyes looks so different. :(

I really don't really care about stars having plastic surgery... it's the quality of their skills that matter. So the "packaging" was made a little nicer, but lee da hae has proved herself many times. But I think netizens are really going to go harsh on her pretty soon >< hang in there, girl!

For those saying that she hasnt changed that much,are you people BLIND???????

She learned how to shape her eyebrows, trust me, it makes a difference. Definitely had eye surgery to get double lids. For the rest I lay the 'blame' at the feet of significant weight loss. In 'My Girl' her face was much more filled out (she looked better, in my opinion) than it is now. I would need to compare a 'My Girl' pic to one of those pageant pics to see if she really *gulp* shaved her jaw. ::shudder:: Either way, she's a pretty girl -- that hasn't changed.

argh. there are so many lee da hae's in the world..how would we know that that is the korean actress lee da hae? And look at this:

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://ua.popcornfor2.com/show/Bxgacf61.jpg&imgrefurl=http://forums.popcornfor2.com/index.php%3Fshowtopic%3D51633%26st%3D1170&usg=___FypB8fxfkC8gJJdo6sIK1KBrRI=&h=283&w=725&sz=26&hl=en&start=2&tbnid=pLy-buqAR8O2kM:&tbnh=55&tbnw=140&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dlee%2Bda%2Bhae%2Bplastic%2Bsurgery%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den

A lot of these comments are really upsetting to me. You, and the media, hold such absurdly high standards of beauty for stars, and then you criticize them when you find out they've had surgery to meet that standard? It's hypocrisy, and I really find it disgusting.

Let the woman have whatever face she wants to. I *do* find it objectionable for a star to lie about plastic surgery (even more so if it's to do with weight loss), but really.. aren't there more important things for us to be worrying about?

i know that many actress did plastic surgery but i have no idea she's one of those! because all this time either she always pretend to be natural or her fans blindly always bragging how natural she is.

but shock, i am! how different she was now and then! now thinking how she always proudly show off her beautiful (but plastic) face and being very sexy lately makes me dont like her.

Unbelievable.... I could not recognize the old Lee Da Hae at all. She totally is a different person after her cosmetic surgery... How many Korean actor(s) and actress(es) did NOT have any of these at all - just wondering????

Don't know lee da hae has some many anti, looking at the comments, reallly show their true color, why don't they comments on the photo posted by Ripgal there.

i dont think those people are antis. some are but mostly are just neutral but too shocked including me.
i'm not her fan neither antis. but i do always admire her beauty (before she became too thin). but this is just a shocking new news. i mean she looks just way toooooooooo different.