Elsa Patton became a beloved personality on The Real Housewives of Miami. The television star appeared on the show between 2011 and 2013, and because of her popularity, “Mama Elsa” even got her a spinoff show.
Meanwhile, Elsa went through plastic surgery and plenty of it. She referred to her surgeon only as “the man who ruined my face,” changing her appearance entirely. But the truth is that Patton – who passed away in 2019 – looked beautiful even before her procedures.
This is all you need to know about her.
Being comfortable in your skin is one essential thing in life. It doesn’t matter if that means being bigger, skinnier, taller or shorter, bald, covered in hair, or anything else relating to appearance.
Sure, we all have things we’re perhaps not one-hundred percent happy with. But in the end, feeling comfortable and accepted for who you are is crucial in life. The key is to accept yourself, not chase acceptance from others.
Some deal with matters by changing hairstyles, going to the gym, or even having surgery. Others feel like change at a more fundamental level is what’s needed.
We will constantly reiterate that you should always do whatever makes you happy and comfortable. However, we also advise that you see a legit specialist if you’re ever considering plastic surgery – no matter what it’s for. Your body is on the line, so do your research well.
In Hollywood, many celebrities have chosen to go through with plastic surgery. Some have chosen to fix small things, such as wrinkles or maybe a nose job, while others have taken drastic measures to – what they feel – enhance their appearance.
Some – such as Simon Cowell – have been criticized by plastic surgeons, others have changed their minds in hindsight. And others have even chosen to remove botox or other procedures to get their natural look back.
Talking about drastic measures, plastic surgery can be dangerous. There are examples of how plastic surgery has pretty much destroyed a person’s face to the point where they aren’t even recognizable anymore.
One of those examples is Elsa “Mama Elsa” Patton. She became a star through the reality television show The Real Housewives of Miami alongside her daughter Marysol Patton. She was on the show between 2011 and 2013, but that was enough to make Elsa a star.
Her one-liners, laugh, and spicy character made her a beloved person on the show. She also went through a significant amount of plastic surgeries, even to the point where a plastic surgeon in Tampa, Florida called it out and said there was “no worse case” of plastic surgery going wrong than Elsa Patton.
So what happened to Elsa? And what did she look like before her many procedures?
To begin with, not much is known about Elsa Patton’s past.
A look across the internet shows no extensive interviews or feature pieces on the reality television star, and it seems like she chose to live a life in private. However, things took a different turn as she began appearing on The Real Housewives of Miami.
According to Ancestry.com, Elsa Patton was born in Cuba on August 25, 1936. She and her husband, Donald Patton, were married for 50 years until his passing in 2018, just 15 months before “Mama Elsa” left earth.
Elsa and Donald had two children, Marysol Patton and Thomas Anthony Jones. Their daughter, Marysol, and Elsa would become known through their appearances on The Real Housewives of Miami. Eight years after the show got canceled, it was rebooted in 2021 for its fourth season, where Marysol was also present.
As mentioned, not much is known about Mama Elsa’s life besides her stint on The Real Housewives of Miami. However, in an interview with RealityTea, her daughter Marysol described how her mother always had been a very social and prominent woman.
“Growing up my mother always had so many people that always wanted to be around her; a lot of celebrities, a lot of very important people always wanted to be friends with my mother,” she said. “Everyone was always fascinated by her so this doesn’t seem any different than how it’s always been.”
Marysol added, “It’s a little different when we go out together on the streets because strangers are coming up to us or staring or pointing or taking pictures, so that’s a little a different. But she enjoys it very much.”
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