Why do rich women pay lots of money to deform their faces to look like this?

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Anonymous wrote:Man that is so sad to see. She was always so beautiful!

I know you mean well with your compliment but this is why these women do this. They are in the public eye and under tremendous pressure to stay as beautiful as they were in their 20s, which is impossible. If they age naturally, people will comment on how "tired" they look or how they have "let themselves go" and how they "used to be" beautiful. If they get the surgeries, people will comment on how weird they look and -sigh- they used to be so beautiful.

Our culture and its manufactured standards of beauty and worship of youth chews women up and spits them out. And the truth is, it's really just about money. The beauty industry wants us all to feel like poop about ourselves so they can sell us stuff we don't need that won't do anything anyway.

It's disgusting.

Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, Reese Witherspoon, and others all look great. I’m sure they get Botox but they’ve avoided using fillers to make their lips larger, which, IMO, is what causes women to look deformed. If Gwen kept her normal lip shape she’d look a lot better.

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks for this, folks. I've decided not to get botox. I'm turning 50 next year and after reading this, I realized, why the hell am I going to get this done- I look good and barely have wrinkles. It seems like it's a nonstop downward spiral after you get the first work done. Embracing aging by working out, eating well, getting plenty of sleep, and retinol.

Botox isn't the issue. It's fillers (especially overdone lips) and bad plastic surgery.

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Anonymous wrote:I really don’t think this is a “rich women” thing. Sadly women of all socioeconomic classes do this.

OTOH my mother and her friends are all “rich” women and they are aging old school NE Yankee style, grey men’s hair cuts, no makeup, turtlenecks and pearl studs. So its really more of a class than a wealth thing.

Thank God someone is here to defend rich women. The right rich women anyway.

Happy to do it! You can ask me anything about the “right” way to age, my people have very strong opinions.

Please tell me how to age like an NE Yankee, I am curious

OK, I will.

You develop a non-nonsense approach to life -- you get up early, you spend a chunk of the day outside, even in foul weather -- probably with dogs -- you don't mind your skin being weathered b/c it's proof you spent your life skiing, sailing and gardening. Plus your husband and all the women around you are strongly supporting this ethos. You love to walk. You even go on vacations to walk -- like rambling through the Cottwsolds for example. You believe a good brisk walk and a hot cup of tea will fix most any mood.

You don't complai. You don't get waxed, blow-outs, manicures. You don't spend money on yourself as in "self-care" unless buying a new bulb-digger to plant fall bulbs is considered self-care. Maybe you slap on some lipstick for Christmas Vespers at church.

You under no circumstances try to be sexy or trendy. You are practical and timeless in your fashion.

You focus on family, volunteer work in your community -- esp. if it's plants/garden related!, do the NYT crossword puzzle, carry on centuries old traditions like baking weird food no one actually wants, decoating and celebrating all the holidays, and most importantly embracing this stage of life as an adult women who has earned respect and dignity and is not trying to recapture her youth.

Oh and books, always be reading something that someone you respect suggested. Start your sentences with "The other day I heard on NPR . . ."

You join -- church, civic groups, tennis ladders, garden clubs, book clubs etc.

Of course what makes this all possible is that literally all of the people in my mom's social circle are the same! NPR-listening, no-nonsense, dog-loving, gardeners.

This sounds like me, without the tennis and gardening, and substitute the Washington Post for NPR.

My husband would not find this attractive at all. Kudos to you all for having a partner who likes you unwaxed, unmanicured, and ungroomed, but I enjoy knowing that even after 13 years and two kids, my spouse is attracted to my mind and body.

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So does Jodi Foster (59)



I'm surprised more people aren't commenting on this photo of Jodi Foster at almost 60. Really lovely.

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So does Jodi Foster (59)



I'm surprised more people aren't commenting on this photo of Jodi Foster at almost 60. Really lovely.

She looks almost 70 :-\

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So does Jodi Foster (59)



I'm surprised more people aren't commenting on this photo of Jodi Foster at almost 60. Really lovely.

She looks almost 70 :-\

Lots of sun damage

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So does Jodi Foster (59)



I'm surprised more people aren't commenting on this photo of Jodi Foster at almost 60. Really lovely.

She looks almost 70 :-\

If she got just her eyes done, and a subtle amount of filler in her lips she would look fantastic. I’m saying just these two particular things to keep it low-key.

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Anonymous wrote:I really don’t think this is a “rich women” thing. Sadly women of all socioeconomic classes do this.

OTOH my mother and her friends are all “rich” women and they are aging old school NE Yankee style, grey men’s hair cuts, no makeup, turtlenecks and pearl studs. So its really more of a class than a wealth thing.

Thank God someone is here to defend rich women. The right rich women anyway.

Happy to do it! You can ask me anything about the “right” way to age, my people have very strong opinions.

Please tell me how to age like an NE Yankee, I am curious

OK, I will.

You develop a non-nonsense approach to life -- you get up early, you spend a chunk of the day outside, even in foul weather -- probably with dogs -- you don't mind your skin being weathered b/c it's proof you spent your life skiing, sailing and gardening. Plus your husband and all the women around you are strongly supporting this ethos. You love to walk. You even go on vacations to walk -- like rambling through the Cottwsolds for example. You believe a good brisk walk and a hot cup of tea will fix most any mood.

You don't complai. You don't get waxed, blow-outs, manicures. You don't spend money on yourself as in "self-care" unless buying a new bulb-digger to plant fall bulbs is considered self-care. Maybe you slap on some lipstick for Christmas Vespers at church.

You under no circumstances try to be sexy or trendy. You are practical and timeless in your fashion.

You focus on family, volunteer work in your community -- esp. if it's plants/garden related!, do the NYT crossword puzzle, carry on centuries old traditions like baking weird food no one actually wants, decoating and celebrating all the holidays, and most importantly embracing this stage of life as an adult women who has earned respect and dignity and is not trying to recapture her youth.

Oh and books, always be reading something that someone you respect suggested. Start your sentences with "The other day I heard on NPR . . ."

You join -- church, civic groups, tennis ladders, garden clubs, book clubs etc.

Of course what makes this all possible is that literally all of the people in my mom's social circle are the same! NPR-listening, no-nonsense, dog-loving, gardeners.

This sounds like me, without the tennis and gardening, and substitute the Washington Post for NPR.

My husband would not find this attractive at all. Kudos to you all for having a partner who likes you unwaxed, unmanicured, and ungroomed, but I enjoy knowing that even after 13 years and two kids, my spouse is attracted to my mind and body.

But where will you be when no amount of nipping, tucking, filling, and grooming can make you attractive to him?

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So does Jodi Foster (59)



I'm surprised more people aren't commenting on this photo of Jodi Foster at almost 60. Really lovely.

She looks almost 70 :-\

If she got just her eyes done, and a subtle amount of filler in her lips she would look fantastic. I’m saying just these two particular things to keep it low-key.

She looks fine. Kudos to Jodi.

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So does Jodi Foster (59)



I'm surprised more people aren't commenting on this photo of Jodi Foster at almost 60. Really lovely.

She looks almost 70 :-\

She DOES NOT.

She looks 60. Which she is. I'm 44. I look 43. Can we just let women be? JFK

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So does Jodi Foster (59)



I'm surprised more people aren't commenting on this photo of Jodi Foster at almost 60. Really lovely.

Agreed. She looks great.

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Anonymous wrote:Every woman on Fox News has the same weird nose. They all look like aliens. It’s terrifying. I’m 55. I choose to embrace the aging process fully. I take care of myself. I’m in fantastic shape. My hair is probably 60% gray and I love it! I don’t look 45. I look like a woman in her 50s. And I’m really, really ok with that. No way would I ever do Botox or fillers or plastic surgery. It never, ever, ever looks good. My mother-in-law gets a “tiny bit” of Botox. She looks perpetually surprised. And it’s weird that her forehead doesn’t move. I love her to death, but damn….why?

Because she like it. I get botox, highlights, color my hair, eyelash tint & lift, I wear bikinis at the pool because I like it. SF is my idea of a beautiful woman over 50 and she had a lot of work done and looks amazing.

She is baby stepping her way toward ghastly.

Filter + overdone lips

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Anonymous wrote:Madonna is a mess - all that work on face and her hands show her age

She looks like a younger version of Donatella Versace.

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So does Jodi Foster (59)



I'm surprised more people aren't commenting on this photo of Jodi Foster at almost 60. Really lovely.

She looks almost 70 :-\

If she got just her eyes done, and a subtle amount of filler in her lips she would look fantastic. I’m saying just these two particular things to keep it low-key.

Why do you think she needs fuller lips than what she had when she was young? They were always thin.

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Just saw Ebola Holmes 2 and Helena homhak Carter looks great. Looks her age but great—of course she’s a gorgeous woman but all of the women we are talking about were pretty gorgeous to start and probably would have been fine aging naturally.