[VIDEO] Lisa Rinna on 'Today': 'My lips have had their own career'

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Sometimes there's no avoiding the elephant in the room.

"What's going on with your lips?" "Today" co-host Hoda Kotb asked about three minutes into a conversation about Lisa Rinna's ongoing stint on "Celebrity Apprentice."

Rinna looked taken by Kotb's question, but explained that she and a friend received silicon injections when they were 24, inspired by the movie "Beaches."

Rinna added that she didn't really regret her famously large pout.

"I never had a career before I had the lips. So my lips have had their own career!" the 49-year-old former soap star said. "Without my lips, I would have had a different career."

"I find it so interesting that it had become such a big thing," Rinna added. "Because I can't tell you how many girls have done their lips. I feel like I'm a pioneer."

The lip convo starts around minute 3:15 below: