MAGA Rep. Lauren Boebert’s (R-CO) face appeared to freeze up from admitted Botox injections during an awkward Capitol Hill interview with TMZ reporter Jacob Wasserman
The outspoken Colorado Republican, 39, was fuming about a National Defense Authorization Act backroom deal Wednesday in an interview with TMZ where she suddenly admitted that she can’t be at work due to botched Botox.
“I don’t want to be on camera this week, and I’ve been on camera more than any other week,” Boebert revealed, apparently pointing at her partially paralyzed bottom lip.
“I am talking out of the side of my mouth like a damn politician, ’cause my Botox hasn’t caught up on this side. Maybe in two days, this side will catch up to the other side, but here we are,” she admitted in the video footage.
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🚨 EXCLUSIVE: TMZ DC's @jacob_wass caught up with Rep. Lauren Boebert after she missed a key defense bill vote, and the Colorado congresswoman says unnamed GOP staffers lied to her in a backroom deal. pic.twitter.com/XoTl1q3el7
— TMZ (@TMZ) July 23, 2026
The shocking cosmetic admission unfolded after Boebert said she missed a vote for the sweeping annual defense policy bill because unnamed GOP staffers lied to her.
She insisted she’d objected to a “tech swap” between the US and Israel and wanted that section removed from the bill.
Boebert was still negotiating as voting approached Wednesday, when Republican staffers told her they’d keep the vote open for her — then didn’t keep their word, she said.
Boebert, who was first elected in 2020, later took issue with Wasserman’s characterization that she was “recovering” from botox. “‘Awaiting settlement’ may be more accurate,” she wrote on X.
Boebert acknowledged being a “fan of botox” during a 2024 Rumble livestream, according to Business Insider.
At the time, she said she needed to increase her injections, noting that a group of students once mistook her for former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.