June 25, 2005
Tummy tuck, Botox, face lift, vein treatments.
Yes, I want them all.
I even have a secret file folder hidden beneath my favorite Mother’s Day cards buried deep in my desk.
No one would check there.
The folder looks normal enough, but in it I hide articles on the latest plastic surgery techniques, phone numbers of surgeons, and WebMD features on looking younger through amazing, new minimally invasive procedures.
Before we go any further, let me make it clear that this is not solely my idea.
No sir. Granted, I have been influenced by television programs such as “The Swan” and “Extreme Makeover”, but mostly it is because plastic surgery is becoming mainstream.
People are coming out.
I am about to, or at least I hope to, if I can figure out a way to pay for it, and I am quite willing to trade family room carpet for a tummy tuck.
My poor husband appears baffled and doesn’t really see the need.
Now that’s sweet, but something has to give here, and I hope it is my belly flab.
I also have learned that more and more men are seeking plastic surgeons, and it is no longer a female “frivolous” whim, as once was thought.
It was only available, early on, to movie stars and the very rich.
That was our perception, anyway.
Much has changed, thankfully.
Consider these amazing new techniques which are minimally invasive with youth- defying properties, according to a recent WebMD article by Denise Mann reporting on the annual meeting of the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS):
I don’t have a prayer at doing that, but I must confess I do want to look younger.
Apparently, so do many others.
Only one obstacle remains in my quest for youth—courage.
You see I have this fear of looking like Andy Williams or Joan Rivers.
Honestly, have they frowned in the last 20 years?
