Four decades ago, a 12-year-old named Alyssa Milano walked onto TV screens as Samantha Micelli on Who’s the Boss?. It was 1984. Big hair. Bigger laughs. Nobody guessed that the kid stealing scenes alongside Tony Danza would still be shaping pop culture in 2025.
Milano didn’t coast on nostalgia. After Who’s the Boss? wrapped in 1992, she zigzagged through indie films, stirred things up as Jennifer Mancini on Melrose Place, then locked in legacy status as Phoebe Halliwell on Charmed. Two generations grew up with her.
Now 53, Milano marked her birthday with an Instagram post that stopped the scroll. No styling. No polish. Just honesty. She wrote: “My annual birthday selfie. No filter. No makeup (except for my microbladed eyebrows and what’s left of my last Botox and filler session). This is what it’s like, 53 years old. Love you all.”
This openness isn’t new. In 2024, she shared another bare-faced post on Facebook. “This is 52,” she wrote. “No make up. No filters. Happiness. Sprinkle that sh*t everywhere.” She even waved at the critics. “If you can hate a stranger — I can love a stranger. So…I love you.”
Milano also speaks plainly about her body. When someone asked her beauty secret on TikTok, she answered with one word: “Botox!” No mystery. No pretending.
In September 2025, she went further. At 52, Milano removed her breast implants. Posting from a hospital gown, she explained why, tagging her surgeon, Dr. Tim Neavin. “Today I’m releasing those false narratives, the parts of me that were never actually parts of me,” she wrote. “I’m letting go of the body that was sexualized, that was abused, that I believed was necessary for me to be attractive; to be loved; to be successful; to be happy.” She added that she hoped this choice would free her daughter, Elizabella, from the same pressure.
She made one thing clear. This was her choice. Not a rulebook. “What is a false narrative for me may be the exact right thing for them,” she wrote, crediting Michelle Visage for helping normalize honest conversations around implants.
Off-screen, Milano runs businesses, launched her women’s sportswear line Touch in 2011, serves as the ACLU’s Artist Ambassador for Reproductive Freedom, and has been married to David Bugliari since 2009. They have two kids, Milo Thomas and Elizabella Dylan. Real life. Busy life.
Hollywood often sells perfection. Alyssa Milano sells something harder. Reality. Wrinkles included. And she’s still beautiful.
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