All of the assumptions in so many comments here are depressing. Some of the commenters here even assert declarations, as if they absolutely know for a fact what has happened with Ms. Boyle. If she has not personally confided in you, then you can't possibly know, and why do you care to know? Maybe Ms. Boyle did have plastic surgery that somehow went horribly wrong -- being a physician myself, however, I think that's the most unlikely hypothesis (for many reasons including her voice is even more unrecognizable than her once exquisite face). So maybe she is on one of several medications that can result in similar physical characteristics, or perhaps she has a medical condition (bulimia, kidney failure, etc.) that has caused the changes; who knows?! The only thing that seems clear is that many commenters here have a bad case of schadenfreude.

Looks like alcholism to me. Possibly even the Jenny Crank Diet. What a Freak... She should stay home.

Just watching "The House Next Door". She's a beautiful woman but the lips are too puffy to a distraction. Sad.

Laura was pristine; why would she do that to herself? I've always thought of her as one of the most truly beautiful women on the screen. It truly is a crying shame what's happend to her.

I just watched a Law and Order re reun with Lara Flynn Boyle, and I kept wondering during the entire episode if that was her, and if it was, why in the world did she have that done to her once beautiful face. So sad. Unless she's had health problems.

I just finished watching an episode of Law & Order with Lar Flynn Boyle. I didn't even realize it was her until it was over. WOW - Does anyone know what happened to her face? My guess is cheek and lip implants. She also looks like she's put on some much-needed weight. Hmmm....

Okay, she is only 38, and she looks at least 50. She looks HORRIBLE. Good lord. She used to be beautiful, now she looks like a train wreck.

a puffy face signifies bulimia as with rene zelleger

hey peach i said the same thing to my husband and started looking for old pics lol anyway come on people she is not sick she is insane because of hollywood and fame and crap it is just so sad and maybe if we non stars didn't act like celebrities were gods they wouldn't feel like they had to do those things to keep working?

I think everyone needs to make up their mind. First, too thin. Now, too puffy. I'm guilty until I thought, maybe it is finally gaining weight after the previous "touch ups". Good grief, what if she finally gained some weight and this is the response? It's enough to make anyone want a drink.

Because of the body question (I, too, noticed there was some hiding going on) AND the face distortion, I thought maybe she was pregnant. I hope she hasn't gone and had a ton of surgery - even with all the collagen, I always thought she was beautiful. Shame on doctors who butcher people unnecessarily!

It's not just her face -- something is going on with her body too. She was on a tv movie a few months ago and it took me a while to realize it was her. Because of the face, of course, but also, she was always wearing some type of loose shirt over the top of her body. Kind of like older women do when they're trying to hide their fat or love handles. I noticed she did it on L&O too (I know there was a brief bikini scene but I wondered if that was a body double since most of the time she's covering her body.

Lara Flynn Boyle's usually beautiful face was nearly unrecognizable on L&O. I have a friend who had to take anti-rejection drugs when she had a kidney transplant, and she had a moonface that looked just like LFB's did on L&O. Thankfully, my friend's face returned to near normal after awhile. If she is sick, maybe her publicist wants to keep it a secret. Look what the media has done with the news of Patrick Swayze's illness. They're ready to bury him now.

wait, Carly Q, how and why did you stumble across this site unless you were dewlling on Lara's botox gone bad??>

This tragedy makes me wonder what Audrey Hepburn might look like if she'd had the same kind of work done. Real beauty doesn't need cosmetic surgery to age well. I'm sad that Lara doesn't appear to know that and hope that she has the courage to stop abusing her body.

When my husband and I were watching L&O we didn't realize it was her until halfway through. Last time I saw her was on Las Vegas and she looked good...at least you could tell it was her and her and her appearance did not detract from her performance. Not only was her face puffy and swollen it almost looked like someeone who is recovering from a stroke whereas one side of the face isn't functioning the same as the other. If there is a medical reason, other than self-mutilation by way of plastic surgery, it would behoove her publicists to get the word out. I am saddened that yet another beautiful face and possibly a career is ruined because of the pursuit of youth. When are we all going to accept that aging is NORMAL???!!!!

I wasn't advocating her treating herself bad and obsessing about her body. I was saying the opposite. Relax, treat yourself well by eating the right things, exercising (reasonably), and you will look beautiful. Stop thinking thin = beautiful, stop thinking big lips = beautiful. We all know thin people who look good and thin people who don't look good, and fat people who look good and fat people who don't.

I feel so bad about all of these comments, mostly cause I was thinking the same thing but when you read them it just seems so cruel. And I'm sorry, but I have to say that *HelenBack* was vicious. LFB obviously has a very harmful eating disorder and appherently an aging issue, but eating disorders are so dangerous, I would hate to know that the words we speak (or write) would cause someone to hurt themselves because of something they read about themselves. This is what's wrong with the young women in this country! They are starving themselves and getting plastic surgery so that the population accepts them as beautiful. Pity!

I was aghast to see Lara on L&O last night - and surprised that they even cast her in the part. She's had so much work done, she has no facial expressions left to use in her work. I'm sorry to see such a fine actress take such drastic measures - when she was beautiful to start with.

I completely agree with what everyone's said. She's always had a very pretty face. Even if she's been uncomfortably thin for the last few years, her face was always striking. I was watching L&O last night and had the same reaction - I couldn't believe it was her! I also had trouble focusing on the storyline because of her face - I actually felt bad for the actors who had to look at her! Considering all the tricks they use on television to make someone look good, can you imagine what she must look like in person?

Her face looks bloated, like she's had cheek injections, or like it would if she were disfigured in an accident and needed plastic surgery to put her face back together again. Can you imagine the reaction of the cast and crew when she showed up to film the episode? I'll bet a few did more than a double-take.

If she's sick and on medication, then its a shame, but if she did that to herself, then WHAT THE HECK WAS SHE THINKING? She looks hideous!

I couldn't believe it was her. The only thing recognizable was her voice. She was always so thin too, (well really way too thin), and that bikini shot was unbelievable. I kept saying to my husband, you don't understand, she looks *nothing* like she used to and I started Googling for old pictures of her. Way too much Botox - her face didn't move when she spoke.

I'm chuckling because you all wrote the same thing about lara and her puffy face.
I wonder if she is going to sue her plastic surgeon.

I couldn't take my eyes off her lips and jowls. And her body ... Has she *never* worked out in her life? So much flab and cellulite and bloat. Stars have forgotten to aim for looking good when they try to erase what they think are their flaws. Beauty isn't the sum of the parts. She needs to eat right, exercise, and get the lip implants removed. And if she is sick and taking steroids, well, eat right, exercise, and get the implants removed.

Hey all,
Remember how Jerry Lewis looked when he had to take drugs? His face was just as bloated.
Maybe it is something more serious.

i'm so glad ya'll ran to the computer right after l&o to express just how i felt. did botox explode on her face like the frozen yogurt machine with a broken handle??? seriously...wow...scary!

I ran to my computer to try to figure out what happened to her and found you all writing the same thing.
I didn't even realize it was her the first part of the show. What the heck did she do to herself? I'd be mad at her except I worry that maybe she is sick and having to take prednisone or something. Does anyone know?

I can't believe I found this site when I googled "Lara Flyn Boyle Plastic Surgery.
I did not even have to add 'gone terribly wrong", just saw her on Law and Order and she looked deformed.
Sometimes people who have cancer treatments get this puffed up all over as well.
She looks awful.

Do the women look in the mirror and think wow I look really sexy with duck lips? Good grief...someone please kill all those Hollyweird plastic surgeons who butcher these once beautiful women.

collagen meets botox makes ugly

I felt the same way, she looks really strange. Is she suffering from an illness or did she do this to herself on purpose. Her face looked really swollen.