People are very strange I think. The things we do in pursuit of ‘perfection’ and ‘eternal youth’ seem ever more bizarre, and in the gym this morning I saw something that definitely confirmed what I have often held to be true – that plastic surgery rarely makes people look better, it just makes them look like they have had plastic surgery.
Gyms can be scary for the average girl just on a general basis – only yesterday a friend and I were talking about the somewhat self-defeating analysis that goes on when you see someone going ten to the dozen on the stepper in front of you with a backside to rival Kylie Minogue. Nonetheless, the changing rooms, are an altogether scarier place – as evidenced by my first sighting of a woman who had clearly undergone buttock augmentation, better known as butt implants – like car crash TV it was completely impossible to look away, and seemed so separate from the rest of her body as to completely defeat their point. In fact, I think their only purpose can have been to cushion any bones in her otherwise fleshless posterior from wear and tear.
Anyway, this is just another example of all the things we do to avoid the terror of aging and to achieve the body beautiful, but I firmly believe that the only way to get older is gracefully, healthily and acceptingly.
Great review from Bonnie of the book launch
