Nikocado Avocado Reveals Facelift to Fix His ‘Big Gobble Gobble Turkey Neck’ After 250-Lb. Weight Loss (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

YouTube starNikocado Avocadois revealing another amazing transformation.

Now he’s going public about getting a facelift to fix his jawline.

“Towards the end of the weight loss journey, my side profile was just horrible," Perry tells PEOPLE exclusively. “I had no chin at all. It was just this big gobble gobble turkey neck sitting below my face. And that’s why I said, ‘You know what? I’ve got to get it taken care of.’ "

Nikocado Avocado before his plastic surgery.Nicholas Perry

Nicholas Perry

Perry, who has 4.6 million subscribers onYouTube, says he’s always had issues with his double chin, even before the weight loss. “I’ve talked to my followers about how I didn’t like my recessed chin. I even have some videos out there called, ‘Say hello to my double chin.’ When I gained the weight and lost the weight, it was excessive.”

In December 2024 he sought the assistance ofDr. Ben Talei, a plastic surgeon at theBeverly Hills Center for Plastic Surgery. Talei tells PEOPLE that Perry was “left with a yard of extra muscle and skin that had been kind of stretched over time and then deflated. The only way to get rid of that becomes surgery,” Talei says.

In the video, Perry shares his pre-op jitters. “I don’t want to look like a different person,” he says, adding that he knows he’s in good hands with Talei.

“I’m doing this for myself, I’m doing this for the violin [he’s played for years], I’m doing this for my haters,” he says.

Dr. Ben Talei examines Nikocado Avocado.Grey Coutts and Jonny Mancini

Grey Coutts and Jonny Mancini

On the day of the surgery — as he prepares to get Talei’s signature AuraLyft facelift and “weekend neck lift” — Perry is nervous but excited. “I’m very confident that it’s going to look good, I’m just worried for the pain,” he says. “I’m just nervous. I hope I don’t pee myself or poop myself.”

Because of Perry’s dramatic weight loss, “his laxity was so extensive,” Talei recalls. “He has something of a domino effect — meaning if you lift his neck, there’s so much laxity that it’ll push up into the face and it’ll have all this excess face tissue.”

It’s why Perry also needed a “brow reset,” Talei says. “I had to lift his brow out of the way. And that’s what we did to give Niko his jawline back."

Nikocado Avocado with Dr. Ben Talei.Grey Coutts and Jonny Mancini

Perry recovered well — “my tooth extraction hurt way more,” he says with surprise — and was thrilled when the bandages came off. “It’s so strong, it’s so meaty, it looks like there’s an implant,” he says after seeing his new jaw. “I’ve actually cried — twice. Tears of joy.”

Nicholas Perry.Nicholas Perry

“Dr. Ben Talei worked closely with me to schedule my facelift … before the start of my tour to allow my face to properly heal,” said Perry, who is loving the result of his procedures. “It’s beautiful,” Perry says. “I’m happy where I’m at.”

As for what’s next for Perry, he will still make videos, just not in the same way. The self-professed “theater kid” tells PEOPLE he originally “decided to make YouTube my stage and I just went ham. I went hard into all of the trolling and the acting, and the drama, the meltdowns.”

He says he will continue to film mukbangs — “I love that type of content, I could talk for hours,” he says — they may look different.

“Instead of having five cheeseburgers, I might do a seafood boil. Instead of having a pile of bacon and cheesy fried chicken. I’ll have a nice steak and broccoli.”

And Nikocado’s future plans?

“Nikocado could be queen of plastic surgery now,” Perry jokes. “What’s next? The lips, the nose, hair transplant? I don’t know!”

In the meantime, Perry himself will be basking in the “true utter amazement” of his new features.

“Now I actually have a jawline,” he says in the video. “I have what everyone else has that I’ve always wanted.”

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source: people.com