The actress hit the iHeartRadio Music Awards 2026 red carpet Thursday night in a red-hot Walter Mendez Atelier dress featuring a sheer corset and thigh-high slit.
“I don’t know if a year ago I would’ve been ready for this dress. The last three years, there’s been a lot of change in my life,” Spelling exclusively told Page Six Style, adding that she was wearing lots of sneakers and jeans.
“Now, recently, … I’m feeling like I’m in my power era. Glamour was my jam back in the day — you can be 50 and glamorous,” she declared, before playfully whispering her real age into the microphone.
“It’s not as comfortable, but damn, is it confident when you put that on. It’s like Cinderella.”
“A tabloid story came out when I was 17 and said I had all of this plastic surgery,” she recalled, admitting that she had a nose job when she was 16 years old, but that there was speculation of more.
“I was a 17-year-old girl, first year of [‘Beverly Hills] 90210,’ last year of high school in real life, and it was heartbreaking,” she said, remembering that when she called dad Aaron Spelling “crying,” he told her that the public would move on in a week. However, she says criticism of her looks has been “perpetuated.”
“I’ve carried that my whole career. To the point where I do less [cosmetic work] than anyone else because I’m so scared of what people will say — and they still say it!,” said Spelling, who hosts a podcast called “misSpelling” where she gets candid about her personal life.
“Every week, ‘Stop with the fillers.’ I’m like, ‘What fillers?’ Are you telling me that I look good if you think I’ve had [work done]?”
While she’s set the record straight before on whether or not she has fillers, Spelling admitted that the trolls do still get to her.
“I say I have thick skin — not filler skin — but we’re all human, it hurts,” she confessed. “Just because you’re in the spotlight doesn’t mean you don’t have feelings.”