O\u2019Neal added: \u201cTo be brief, I\u2019m not getting any younger. I just wanna stay young, beautiful and hot.\u201d<\/p>\n
In 2002, the former Los Angeles Lakers centre underwent big toe surgery, which removed bone spurs from his arthritic right big toe.<\/p>\n
The 2.15m (7ft 1in) giant\u2019s most recent surgery came in March 2023, when he had a significant hip replacement to fix chronic pain, caused by his large figure and high-impact playing.<\/p>\n
At the time, O\u2019Neal \u2013 who retired from basketball in 2011 \u2013 sparked confusion and concern when he shared a picture of himself in hospital to his Instagram account.<\/p>\n
And he joked he underwent a Brazilian butt lift after his hip replacement.<\/p>\n
He captioned the photo with: \u201cTo all the people who are concerned. First let me start off by saying thank you.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd lastly i am fine. Just had to get some BBL work done aka #hipreplacement. but yes I am fine no need to worry.\u201d<\/p>\n
He joked about the Brazilian butt lift with a cheeky clip of his own backside in a pair of shorts, edited to pop in and out.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Neal\u2019s surgery \u2013 which involved a titanium hip \u2013 has left him unable to dunk a basketball because he would \u201cget hurt\u201d and after the procedure, he returned to light gym sessions and focused on recovery.<\/p>\n
In December 2022, the star revealed he shed almost three stone after he weighed over 23 stone, thanks to a new diet and exercise plan.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Neal \u2013 who takes supplements, drinks health shakes and has cut out fizzy drinks \u2013 explained: \u201cA friend of mine called me and said \u2018You\u2019re fat\u2019 and she gave me this guy\u2019s name, and he did some blood work.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was saying, \u2018You can do this, you can\u2019t do that \u2013 [eat] more vegetables, [your] iron\u2019s low.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce I just started changing those certain things, it dropped. It\u2019s all about eating right.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"O\u2019Neal added: \u201cTo be brief, I\u2019m not getting any younger. I just wanna stay young, beautiful and hot.\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1333,692,116258,111,139,69,116257,2171,28160,312,116256,213,6290,61,42913],"class_list":["post-183515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-get","tag-he","tag-lip","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-oneal","tag-plans","tag-reduction","tag-says","tag-shaquille","tag-sports","tag-surgery","tag-to","tag-undergo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}