Before she was “Catwoman,” she was a natural beauty.
Swiss socialite Jocelyn Wildenstein shared a tribute on her daughter Diane’s birthday with a rare look at her original face before she underwent extensive plastic surgery.
The 82-year-old posted a throwback photo on Instagram Sunday of herself sitting on a couch with her then-infant daughter on her lap.
Jocelyn looked gorgeous in a white shirt while rocking her blonde hair in a wavy blond and dark red lipstick. She stared off into the distance in the same direction that baby Diane was looking at.
“Happy Birthday to my beautiful daughter Diane Wildenstein #oljogi #jocelynwildenstein,” Jocelyn captioned her post.
Jocelyn welcomed her daughter and son Alec Jr. with her late ex-husband, billionaire art dealer Alec Wildenstein, who died from prostate cancer in 2008.
The socialite rose to fame in the 1990s during her and Alec’s divorce high-profile divorce, from which she received a whopping $2.5 billion in the settlement and $100 million each year afterwards.
The former couple split after Alec, according to Jocelyn, started flaunting his extramarital affairs in public.
Throughout Jocelyn’s career in the public eye, rumors abounded that Alec, who loved cats, encouraged his wife to get surgeries to make her appear more feline.
But in a 1998 interview with Vanity Fair during their tumultuous split, Alec denied that he made her change her face.
“She was crazy. I would always find out last. She was thinking that she could fix her face like a piece of furniture. Skin does not work that way. But she wouldn’t listen,” she said.
Jocelyn said in the past she changed her life because Alec “hates to be with old people,” but she changed her tune about his influence on her plastic surgeries in the Vanity Fair interview.
“He never pushed me… No, he all the time told me that I look very young,” she said, adding, “Until the day you don’t look young enough!”
The mom of two also claimed at the time that some of her facial features are natural.
“The lynx has perfect eyes,” she said. “If I show you pictures of my grandmother. what you see is these eyes—cat eyes—and high cheekbones.”
Last year, Jocelyn claimed she was broke after Alec’s former family cut her off from her $100 million annual divorce settlement payment. She previously filed for bankruptcy in 2018.
“I have a huge problem with my settlement,” she told The Telegraph in 2023. “Since eight years, they have completely cut me off.”
It was reported in 2021 that Jocelyn was creating a documentary about her life to make money.
“She now really wants to talk about her life, what drove her, how she built a business with her fiancé in the craziness of their life together in New York,” her publicist told Page Six at the time.
Jocelyn’s documentary has yet to be released.
She is currently dating fashion designer Lloyd Klein. Their relationship started in 2003 after meeting at New York Fashion Week.
In 2016, Jocelyn allegedly came under “financial duress” and “went into a rage” at Klein. She allegedly clawed Klein across the face and slashed him with scissors, while Klein allegedly shoved her.
They were both arrested for the incident and faced charges. However, the charges against Klein were dropped in January 2017 due to lack of evidence, while Jocelyn’s charges were dismissed in Feb. 2017 once the couple got back together.
Jocelyn and Klein have since gotten engaged.