Barry Manilow is getting candid about precisely which cosmetic procedures he's undergone throughout his six-decade career in order to maintain his youthful appeal.
'Maybe I don't have to hang it up yet. I look fantastic, but I'm a hundred years old, right?' the soft rock legend - turning 83 next month - said to the LA Times on Wednesday.
'I don't know how that happened, by the way - I don't get Botox or anything.'
Manilow (born Pincus) then revealed he did have one facelift when he and his manager husband Garry Kief 'lived in LA' and he'd have another one if he noticed 'something [was] falling down.'
'But after that it's just been a little here, a little there,' the Copacabana hitmaker said.
'I'm as vain as anybody else. One of my old friends, his mother said, "I always knew he was talented, but when did he get so handsome?"'
1976 vs 2026: Barry Manilow is getting candid about precisely which cosmetic procedures he's undergone throughout his six-decade career in order to maintain his youthful appeal
Manilow - who's only an Oscar away from elite EGOT status - is opening up ahead of the June 5 release of his 33rd studio album, What a Time.
It will mark the Sun Shine singer's first record with original material in nearly 15 years.
Manilow just successfully battled stage one lung cancer, after undergoing a lobectomy last December to remove the diseased lobe on his left lung.
The Brooklyn native smoked cigarettes from age nine to 39 and later vaped.
'I vape but hardly — I just like holding it,' Manilow said.
'I was a great smoker. Brooklyn in the 1950s? Please...I got up to three packs of Pall Mall non-filters a day, and it never bothered me — never had any problem breathing. I was just a skinny piano player who smoked. That's who I am. That's who I was.'
Last month, the Mandy star celebrated his 12th wedding anniversary with Kief, whom he secretly began dating in 1978.
Sources told the National Enquirer in 2015 that Manilow and the 77-year-old president of Barry Manilow Productions 'did not file the [legal] paperwork to formalize their union out of fear the big news would leak.'
'They all knew. I never really hid it, but in the 1970s and 1980s, that would have killed the career, and I didn't want to do that. So I just never talked about it,' the Once Before I Go singer scoffed.
'I'm very lucky — I live in the most gorgeous place [Palm Springs] I've ever seen and I have the most wonderful partner that you can imagine. I'm grateful he's chosen to share his life with me. We've been together for over 46 years, and we still laugh and we still love each other. That's the greatest award I'll ever get.'
'Maybe I don't have to hang it up yet. I look fantastic, but I'm a hundred years old, right?' the soft rock legend - turning 83 next month - said to the LA Times on Wednesday. 'I don't know how that happened, by the way — I don't get Botox or anything' (pictured last Saturday)
Manilow then revealed he did have one facelift when he and his manager husband Garry Kief 'lived in LA' and he'd have another one if he noticed 'something [was] falling down' (pictured in 2014)
'But after that it's just been a little here, a little there,' the Copacabana hitmaker said. 'I'm as vain as anybody else' (pictured in 2002)
Manilow - who's only an Oscar away from elite EGOT status - is opening up ahead of the June 5 release of his 33rd studio album, What a Time
The Sun Shine singer just successfully battled stage one lung cancer, after undergoing a lobectomy last December to remove the diseased lobe on his left lung (pictured January 2)
It was Manilow's second time down the aisle after his high school sweetheart Susan Deixler annulled their 1964 nuptials after just one year.
The Dancin' in the Aisles singer - who still pulls 4.5 million monthly listeners on Spotify - is scheduled to perform June 25 in Reading, Pennsylvania but it's unclear if he'll be well enough.
'Since the surgery, I can't go on the road. 90 minutes of screaming in tune, which is what I do for a living — I'm not up for that yet,' Manilow said.
'I will be, but it's taking a long time to get my voice back. They warned me that I'd have to learn to breathe again. So these days, I get up, I go to my piano and I try to be creative. Before I know it, the afternoon's over.'
The Songwriters Hall of Famer added: 'I just have to get better and do what the doctors are telling me. It's the only way out.'

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