She wore glasses for almost 30 years. Talk show host Whoopi Goldberg sported a new look during an episode of The View on Monday, March 20. The EGOT winner underwent eye surgery and was able to ditch her glasses for the first time in nearly three decades. Get details on her condition and procedure by scrolling below.
Why Did Whoopi Goldberg Have Eye Surgery?
During the episode, Whoopi’s cohosts pointed out the fact that she wasn’t wearing her signature glasses for the broadcast. Normally, she’d need them to see papers on the table in front of her or to read lines off the teleprompter.
"I had an operation, and they replaced the lens and the lens they replaced it with is kind of like my eyeglass lens," she explained to her costars about undergoing an eye procedure. The Sister Act star decided to have surgery after realizing how much her eyesight has changed over time. She revealed she had "teeny tiny" cataracts in her eye that needed to be replaced. The surgery that Whoopi had was to correct a condition called presbyopia, “the gradual loss of your eyes' ability to focus on nearby objects,” per Mayo Clinic. The Ghost actress told the audience that she only had one eye done so far but was very pleased with the results.
"This is something they've been doing for a while and people don't know about it," she said. "Your insurance will cover it, though you have to pay for the lens yourself."
Fans might not be used to seeing Whoopi without glasses, but she was excited to show off her new look on TV. Now, Goldberg is "sitting here able to read... and see." The development made her so happy that she encouraged viewers to look into the procedure for themselves, joking, "The bionic times have arrived."
"I've been wearing glasses now for almost 28 years... Now this is what I look like and it's not so bad," she said.
The development came the year after Goldberg shocked her View co-hosts by revealing that she doesn't have eyebrows.
"I had eyebrows as a little kid and you know how men get those bumps? I started to get them on my face, so my mother removed them," she said. "I kept doing it because I don't know my face with eyebrows unless I'm working -- they put them on and take them off."
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