unlined foreheads, bagless eyes, supple skin: today's celebrities have stopped ageing. some admit to treatments such as botox – but many deny it. but why do women in the public eye feel they cannot age – and what pressure does it put on ordinary people? kira cochrane reports
a couple of months ago, a photograph was hungrily circulated around gossip magazines and websites, and at a glance you would have had trouble explaining why. it showed an ordinary-looking woman in her mid-40s, out shopping in california, her specs on, cardigan buttoned. the clue was in the picture of madonna that ran beside it. the anonymous woman was identified as the singer's younger sister, melanie henry, and readers were encouraged to compare and contrast.
the difference was striking. because while henry, snapped unawares, looked as good as any woman could hope, madonna seemed to have been beamed from another planet. where henry had the natural features of middle-age - mild creases beside her nose and beneath her eyes, for instance - madonna's face was eerily unlined, skin glowing, cheeks conspicuously plump. it's not so much that, at 50, she looked much younger than her sister, as that she had no signs of age whatsoever. not a crinkle on her brow, crow's-feet by her eyes, or the slightest sag to her cheeks.
of course, madonna isn't the only famous woman to look, quite literally, ageless. over the last 10 years, the public face of ageing seems to have changed completely, and many of the world's most prominent women hardly seem to grow older at all. it's not so much that they always look young, exactly, or that they have the tightly pulled skin of traditional facelifts. but they do look completely different to their non-famous peers. where other women's lips recede, theirs stay mysteriously plump. where others have laughter lines, they remain undimpled. and when describing how they stay so taut, the explanation is generally this. they moisturise. they drink water. they work out. they eat well. they avoid the sun. they don't smoke. which is enough to make the average healthy-living woman wince while inspecting her own wrinkles.
occasionally someone does break rank, and admits to having had treatments - in the past. last week kylie minogue ended speculation when she admitted to uk elle magazine that, "i've tried botox ... but i'm preferring to be a lot more natural these days." minogue added that she's "definitely not one of those people who says, 'you shouldn't do this' ... everyone individually can do what they want."
geri halliwell says a similar thing in the latest edition of red magazine ("i had some [botox] squirted into my forehead and it gave me a headache"), echoing the comments of jennifer aniston earlier this year, who said she had "tried botox once and it was really not good for me. i felt like i had a weight on my head." aniston's former friends co-star, courteney cox, told us marie claire magazine late last year that, "i went to this doctor once, and he was like, 'oh, let me do it just here and here and here.' and i was miserable ... it's not that i haven't tried botox - but i hated it."
for other performers, though, the rumours persist. heat magazine has asked "has madonna had cheek implants?" while grazia speculated "has madonna had the ribbon lift?". (this procedure apparently involves a "flexible, tube-like device" covered in tiny hooks being inserted beneath the skin on the face. the hooks then attach themselves to the subject's tissue, before the device is hoiked upwards.) but the source of most speculation is probably nicole kidman. the smoothness of her skin has caused the salon.com film critic, stephanie zacharek, to wonder whether her forehead is made of melamine, and dr martin braun - who runs the biggest botox clinic in canada - to say he believes she has been an "enthusiastic user" of botox.
kidman has denied this. in 2007 she told us marie claire magazine that, "to be honest, i am completely natural. i have nothing in my face or anything. i wear sunscreen, and i don't smoke. i take care of myself. and i'm very proud to say that." madonna, meanwhile, has stated she is "not going to have a press conference if i have plastic surgery. but i have said many times that i think about it, like everybody, and i sure don't rule it out."
what is beyond doubt is that, in general, the aesthetic of ageing has changed, and that many women in the public eye are having extensive cosmetic work done, starting ever younger. speaking to the cosmetic doctor, tracy mountford, who specialises in "non-surgical skin rejuvenation" - including botox and other injectables - she says that many well-known women will "have had quite a bit done to maintain that 'natural' good look. people would be staggered ... the majority of people [in the public eye] will be having something done."
and in some ways, this is completely understandable. after all, ageism is alive and well. as anna ford said after leaving the bbc in 2006: "how many presenters do you know on television who are over the age of 60?" in 2002, the actor rosanna arquette made the documentary searching for debra winger, in which she and other hollywood stars questioned the paucity of roles for older women. madonna has also commented on age discrimination, saying that, "once you reach a certain age you're not allowed to be adventurous, you're not allowed to be sexual. i mean, is there a rule? are you supposed to just die?"
until very recently, older women were simply expected to fade from view. as susie orbach, the feminist psychoanalyst and author of bodies, says: "thirty years ago, a woman of my age [62] wasn't really in public space or contributing - you were terribly exceptional if that happened." and the result is that women are still in the earliest stages, historically, of negotiating how to remain in the public eye.
so far, the most popular approach seems to be to deny the ageing process altogether. professor virginia l blum, author of flesh wounds, an analysis of cosmetic surgery culture, points out that a performer's looks are "their livelihood, and we do know that actors - and especially actresses - can't even really appear on screen unless they look a certain way. so they're constantly forced to manufacture the look of youth and keep producing it."
it's also true that performers are under more scrutiny than ever before, at the mercy of both high-definition tv - which lays bare the tiniest "imperfections" - and tabloid culture. it's an environment that is at once trashy and highly exacting: every hangnail a sin, every eye-bag a crime.
in the face of such constant surveillance, it's not surprising that women would want to erase marks that might otherwise be circled with an exclamation of disgust. and the tools are now widely available. the stereotype of a woman who has work done was once of someone in their 50s or more, who visited a cosmetic surgeon in the hope of having a decade or two erased through a facelift - her skin sliced open, pulled tight and stitched.
but since botox was first used for cosmetic purposes 20 years ago - and particularly since 2002, when it won approval in the us from the food and drug administration for the removal of frown lines - the landscape has been transformed. now the onus is increasingly on "non-invasive" treatments that don't require scalpels but involve substances being injected into the face, whether it's botulinum toxin (of which botox is the best-known brand name), which reduces wrinkles by temporarily paralysing the muscles; juvéderm, a wrinkle-filler made of hyaluronic acid; or restylane vital, also made of hyaluronic acid, which promises to "counter the effects of sun damage and provide deep dermal hydration". (juvéderm and restylane vital are also approved by the fda.) non-invasive treatments have boomed over the last decade. while cosmetic surgery procedures in the us increased by 114% between 1997 and 2007, non-surgical procedures increased by 754%. in 2007, 55,000 botox injections were administered in the uk.
when it comes to these procedures, the focus isn't necessarily on rolling back time, but on starting in your 20s or 30s and achieving stasis. dr jean-louis sebagh (also known as "king botox") recently said that "preventing the ageing process is better, where possible, than correcting it, non? if a woman comes to me at 35 or 40 and we treat her every three to four months, i can keep her looking that way for 20 years or more."
it's a question of vigilance. non-invasive procedures appeal to both the famous and the less so because they're not radical but incremental, meaning there's less chance of a sudden, major change in one's looks. the downside is that they have to be regularly updated.
mountford says hyaluronic acid products require a top-up every six to nine months, so once you embark on these procedures, you enter an ongoing process of revision, your face an endless work in progress. and the cost can be astronomical. while a year's worth of botox treatments and dermal fillers might cost, say, £2,000 (£1,200 for the fillers, £300-£500 every six months for botox injections), over 20 years that comes to £40,000. and that's not taking into account either inflation, or the chance that you will be tempted by some of the many other procedures available.
not that the cost affects the hollywood set. these new procedures are now so popular that they've been credited with a whole new aesthetic for women in the public eye - a specific "face" shared by many female stars. where facelifts were often synonymous with the "windtunnel" look - a person's features pulled tight and distorted - the era of injectables is all about filling out the face, replacing lost contours. it's a look that was described in new york magazine last year as the new new face, with the writer, jonathan van meter, pinpointing "the mount rushmore cheekbones, the angular jawline, the smoothed forehead, the plumped skin, the heartlike shape of the face" as defining this aesthetic. that, and volume. van meter described these faces as not being "pulled tight in that typical facelift way; they seemed pushed out", while mountford explains it thus: "if you have a prune, and you tighten the prune, you don't get a grape. you get a tight prune. but if you restore volume back into the prune, you get a grape back."
the sad thing is that, while these cosmetic procedures are supposed to lengthen a performer's career, they often cut them short. we all know of actors who suddenly appear with painfully enlarged lips, weirdly raised eyebrows, or stunned foreheads, and who become very difficult to take seriously. over the last few years, casting directors have talked about the difficulties they experience as a result, with richard hicks, who cast hairspray, telling radar magazine that, "there's no way to light them so that they don't look hideous. for the most part, what i find moving is the truth, and once you've had your face worked on, it's often not the same thing." the wall street journal has reported that warner bros has had to double its casting staff in britain and canada, because botox is so common in the us. and directors martin scorsese and baz luhrmann have reportedly complained that the vogue for surgery has undermined actors' ability to express emotion.
what does this culture mean for ordinary women? well, for one, the beauty standard we're expected to live up to is, specifically, a surgical one - which is complicated by the fact that this is so rarely acknowledged. the result is that we are presented with image after image of women (and, increasingly, men) who are astoundingly unlined, and are forced to compare ourselves with them. if we buy into the idea that these people are "naturally" unwrinkled, the comparison is always likely to come up wanting. as blum says of the current face of ageing, "i think it puts women on high alert all the time. i think it's just very anxiety-inducing and it causes a certain amount of unhappiness because it's asking people to hyper-scrutinise themselves."
of course, these images also encourage women to have cosmetic procedures, which can sometimes go horribly wrong. in britain, the use of cosmetic fillers is largely unregulated, and there are many stories of rogue treatments leaving strange, floating lumps beneath the skin. nottingham solicitor paul balen spoke in the daily mail recently about representing six people who have experienced problems with filler treatments: "clients who have lumps of this stuff erupting out of their faces. others are dreadfully scarred, or they have strange bags of these filler products appearing under their eyes." in the same article, karon kitchener explained that an injectable water-based filler treatment she had to enhance her cheeks had left her with "a moving layer of custard under the skin. every morning i wake up not knowing how i am going to look." a specialist told her that it would cost £50,000 to correct the damage.
these treatments also involve us buying into a culture that invites us constantly to critique how we look, what we'd like to change, and then holds our happiness just beyond arm's reach. "the cycle of gratification is endless," says blum, "because what will happen? 'oh, i get an extra 17 years' - but then what happens at the end of the 17 years? i think, again, it puts people on high alert all the time." she also believes that once you start having cosmetic procedures, it's very difficult to stop. "if you have a good result, you're in it. and if you have a bad result, you're in it, because you have to fix it. so either way it's addictive."
do we want these to be the terms on which we're allowed to participate in public life? last year, the author, charla krupp, reached the new york times bestseller list with how not to look old, and argued in interviews that her "whole focus is about the workplace ... [the book is] for the boomer woman who is finding herself looking older than everybody else at work, and realising that she's very vulnerable". while krupp doesn't favour plastic surgery, she is a strong advocate of non-invasive cosmetic procedures, saying that, "we are so fortunate to be coming of age at a time when we can go to a dermatologist and get botox, and get the wrinkles in our forehead and the crow's-feet to disappear in a week, 48 hours sometimes." krupp's outlook is echoed in a series of articles that have recently hit newsstands, which suggest that older people are having cosmetic procedures to help them remain "relevant" in a recession-era workplace. these include one by judith newman, for us marie claire, who described the blood leaking out of her puncture wounds after liposuction.
it's natural to hold actors and performers up as role models, but to do so in this case is faintly ridiculous, since, of all of us, they are under the most intense pressure regarding their looks. it is understandable that they would bow to the most punishing ideals, but that doesn't mean that the average woman or man should.
instead, we have to ask ourselves whether we really want to paralyse our facial muscles, wipe away all signs of age and accept that only by looking oddly youthful for as long as possible are we allowed any place in public life. if we do, then we're bending to a viciously sexist and ageist ideal. and, let's face it, obedience is never a good look.
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光滑无痕的额头，没有眼袋的双眸，细腻柔软的肌肤。现在的明星们已经摆脱了年龄增长的困扰。有一部分明星承认自己做过整容手术像botox --- 当然，大部分明星不会承认。为什么大众会认为女人不可以变老呢？--- 是什么迫使她们持这种观点？卡拉·考其瑞报道。
几个月前，一张照片引起了人们的广泛关注。在各大娱乐杂志和网络上被传抄。乍一听，你也许会觉得这简直是莫名其妙。照片上是一位45岁左右的中年妇女，长相平凡，带着眼镜，穿着羊毛背心，照片上的她正在加州外出购物。其实线索是妇女旁边一闪而过的麦当娜的身影。这位不知名的女性被认为是麦当娜的妹妹，麦利尼·亨利，读者们津津乐道于进行二者的比对。
差异相当惊人。因为是在亨利太太不知情的情况下拍的，所以她看起来相当平凡，但旁边的麦当娜却光彩照人的如外星人。亨利太太的鼻子旁和眼镜下都布着中年妇女的特征 --- 细小的皱纹，但麦当娜的脸却是出乎寻常的平整，皮肤也很光彩夺目，脸颊丰满可见。她看起来不像50岁的人，比她妹妹年轻多了---竟没有一点年龄增长留下的痕迹---眉毛笔直，在双眼的衬托下又黑又长，脸颊也没有下垂的迹象。当然，并不只是麦当娜，其他的女明星也是如画中人儿，“长生不老”。在过去10年，公众人物只见其年龄增大却压根儿不见其面容衰老，而且世界上绝大多数著名女性看起来好像永远不会变老。其实并不是说她们总是看起来这么年轻，也不是因为她们总把脸皮拉的直直的。真正的原因在于，她们和其他平凡的女性相比，实在是看起来很不一样而已。当其他女性嘴唇开始脱谢时，她们的嘴唇却总是出奇的丰满；当其他女性因笑容而生皱纹时，她们却仍拥有迷人的小酒窝。如果你问她们何以保持如此靓丽？原因不外乎以下几点：她们每天给皮肤保湿，避免阳光暴晒，而且从不吸烟。这些约束让过普通生活的女性望而却步了。结果是，她们只能对着自己的皱纹感叹了。
当然总有些人会打破常规。她们也承认做过美容手术。上周凯利终于证实了人们的猜测，在英国杂志elle对其的采访中她承认“我试过botox。。。但现在我更喜欢自然一些”凯利又补充说“很多人认为人们不应该去做整容，而我却不是这么想的，我觉得每个人都可以做自己想做的事情”。
盖里在近期red杂志上表达了同样的观点，与本年早些时候珍妮弗的评论颇有相似之处。当时珍妮弗是这样说的“我曾经试过botox，我很不习惯这种方式。我感觉我头上好像放了什么东西似的”。影片朋友中与珍妮弗合作的明星cox，在去年底接受美国玛丽克莱尔杂志时说“奥！这儿！这儿！这儿！我来搞定它。当我听到医生这么说时，我就感觉很难受。其实不是我没试过botox，只是它让我感到厌恶”。
但是，社会各界的声音仍对整容手术医生持怀疑态度。热火杂志就曾这样问道“麦当娜做过面部移植手术吗？”同时，grazia杂志猜测“麦当娜做过带状移植手术”（这种手术其实是把一种表面附有小钩子的管状的可伸缩的装置移植到面部皮下。在装置被向上挪移后，这些钩子会嵌入皮下组织）但是，其实怀疑的焦点大部分还是针对妮可·基德曼的。其肌肤的光滑度让沙龙网上的电影评论家史蒂芬妮怀疑基德曼的前额是树脂做的。而且，拥有加拿大最大的botox诊所的马丁·布朗医生也相信妮可·基德曼一定是botox的忠实用户。
但妮可·基德曼本人对此予以否认。在07年接受美国玛丽克莱尔杂志采访时，她说“我很诚实地告诉你，我没有任何人工的痕迹。我脸上也没有整过容。我擦着防晒油，而且我不吸烟。我其实一直很重视保养，这一点让我感到很骄傲”但是，麦当娜称其不会举行新闻发布会去澄清有关整容手术的猜疑。另外，她还说她会像其他人一样考虑整容，她也不会彻底拒绝整容。总的来说，毋庸置疑的一点是，关于年龄增长的审美观点已经发生了改变，而且许多公众女性在化妆上花费了大量的精力，她们不仅没有变老，相反，看起来更年轻了。崔西·曼特福特，非手术恢复肌肉活力的专家---包括botox及其他注射方式的领域，在接受采访时说，许多知名女性会为保持其所谓的自然娇容而不惜代价，不管别人怎么看，大部分公众人物仍会求助于整容手术。
当然，从某种意义上说，这种行为是可以理解的。毕竟，年龄增长是如此活生生的摆在我们面前。2006年，安娜·福特在离开bbc公司后说“电视上那么多主持人，你知道有多少已经年过60了？”2002年，影星罗塞那·阿奎特对德布拉·德格进行了纪实性的跟踪调查。此间安娜和其他好莱坞明星质问了为何年纪稍大的女星角色份额少这一现象。麦当娜也对年龄歧视进行了评论，“一旦你达到某一特定的年龄，你就不能再闯荡江湖了，你也不会被冠以“性感”的头衔。我想问，规则真的存在吗？我就只能等死吗？”
知道最近，人们总以为年长女性应乖乖地从眼前消失。正如女权主义精神分析家，bodies的作者苏西·阿贝西所说：“30年前，像我一样62岁的女性不会真正活跃在公共领域 --- 即使有也会被认为是异类。”结果是，如今的女性在寻求维持公众关注的道路上，仍然处于相当早期原始的阶段。
迄今为止，达到此目的的最普通的方法似乎是完全否认自己变老的自然过程。flesh wounds的作者，美容术文化的分析师，布拉姆教授指出，演员的面容是她们的全部，尤其是女演员，如果看起来和平常不一样，她们是不可以上镜的。因此，她们总是被迫去维持和创造年轻的外表。
还有一点是，如今的演员其公众关注率比以前高很多，这一方面是由于高清电视的缘故 --- 它让最细微的不足无所遁形，另一方面是由于小道消息的泛滥。在这样一种荒诞无稽又高度苛刻的氛围下，一根指尖的倒刺就是一种罪过，一个肿肿的眼袋就是一种犯罪。
在面对这样纷繁不定的监视下，任何不足都有可能招致人们厌恶的批评，女性倾向于抹去这种不足的心理也就不足为奇了。而现在实现的方式又是如此的多种多样。即使是一位年过50的妇女，渴望通过整容年轻10~20岁，只要她去做整容手术---切开皮肤，拉直再缝上---她也会有模有样。
但是自从20年前botox第一次使用于美容目的以来---特别是2002年，美国食品药品安全局批准了botox实施额头皱纹移除手术---一切就都发生了改变。现在非扩散性手术越来越普遍，这种手术不需要手术刀之需要向脸部注射某些物质即可，如肉毒菌毒素（其中botox是最出名的品牌），它通过暂时性肌肉麻痹来减少皱纹；juvederm，由透明质酸制成的皱纹填充物；以及restylane vital，也是由透明质酸制成，其功效据说是“修复阳光晒伤，提供皮肤深层次的水合作用”。20世纪90年代，非扩散性手术迅速走红，当97~07年间美国美容术疗法增长114%时，非手术疗法却增长了754%。07年，英国共实施了55000起botox注射。
当我们仔细研究这些疗法时，我们会其重点并不一定在“时光倒流”上，而是从人的20岁或30岁阶段起步并达到静态平衡状态。简-路易斯博士最近声称“如果可能的话，防止老化过程要比纠正它修复它更好一些。不是吗？如果一个35岁或40岁的妇女来找我，并且我们每3~4个月对她进行治疗，我保证接下来的20年甚至更久时间内她可以保持住容颜。”
这只是一个敏感性问题。非扩散性治疗手段不仅适合于著名人物而且适合于平民大众，因为她们并非激进的“一蹴而就”式而是“渐进式”，换句话说，人的脸部一般不会出现突然的，巨大的转变。但其缺点是这种疗法需要定期进行更新。
曼特福特说，透明质酸产品需要每6~9个月更新一次。所以一旦你开始接受这些疗法，你就走上了一条不断“巩固”的道路，你的脸将接受无休止的折腾。由此产生的费用可能是一个天文数字。一年的botox治疗和表皮注射可能花费2000英镑左右。20余年的花费将近40000英镑。这还不包括通货膨胀因素以及其他治疗手段带来的诱惑。
并不是这么高的费用导致了好莱坞的现状。这些新的治疗手段如今已十分流行以至于人们已对此形成了关于公众人物美学的崭新的审美观点 --- 大部分女明星所共享的一张共同的脸。但是，整容术经常被认为是“风道”脸型的同义词---皮肤拉的直直的或故意弄歪了---注射时代其实就是“填饱”脸蛋儿，补全轮廓。乔纳森·万·米特在纽约杂志上形容这种脸型时，一阵见血地称其为“拉斯摩尔山”似的颊骨，尖尖的下巴线，平滑的前额，丰满的肌肤，他定义这种审美对象是心型的脸。这样的评论多如牛毛。米特形容这些脸为“非传统整容方式拉直的，似乎是往外胀平的”，曼特福特是这样形容的“如果你手上有一只李子，你就算把李子拉直了你也不可能变出一颗葡萄。你得到的只是拉直的李子，但是如果你把李子里填上一颗葡萄，你就真的得到葡萄了。”
然而可悲的是，这些原本延长演员演绎生涯的美容术经常适得其反。我们经常会碰到这样一些演员，他们忍着痛苦拉大了嘴唇，奇怪地太高了眉毛或漂亮的额头，以至于我们很难接受。在过去几年，负责选派角色的导演们经常抱怨那些由此产生的困扰，比如电影《发胶女郎》的角色分配导演理查德·希克斯在接受雷达杂志采访时是这样说的，“要想让她们在聚光灯下不显得面目狰狞是不可能的。最主要的是，真像是最能打动人心的。一旦你进行过脸部整容后，情况可能就不一样了。”华尔街日报报道说由于整容在美国太流行，华纳兄弟公司不得不在英、加增加*其旗下的演员。导演martin scersese 和 baz luhrmann在报道中抱怨到时下流行的整容手术已经降低了演员的表达情感的能力。
这样一种崇尚整容手术的文化对普通女性意味着什么呢？一点是，我们期望达到的美丽标准就被明确为手术型的结果——十分多余的结果。原因在于这一点只有少部分人承认。结果是一幅一幅的毫无**的女性的照片充斥于我们眼前，迫使我们将自己与她们进行比较。如果我们接受这些女性是天生的“光*”这样一个观点，，那么比较后结果就可能是我们将“蠢蠢欲动”。正如blum对当下面部年龄增长的描述，“我想这把女性导致与高危情况下，我想这是很容易引起焦虑的，这种情况导致了大多民众产生不**感，因为它要求人民‘拿着显微镜’检查自己。”
当然，这些照片也鼓励女性接受整容手术，而手术有时候会产生相当不幸的结果。在英国，化妆注射品的使用并没有管制，有许多案例表明，粗糙的手术治疗留下的只是皮下那么奇怪的浮块。诺丁汉法务官保尔·巴伦最近在daily mail上代表六位经历过注射治疗问题的民众，声称：“有些顾户面部隆起了注射物形成的肿块，有些人竟有恐怖的伤疤或眼下出现注射物的肿块。”在同一篇文章中，karon kitchener说，她接受的以水为基础的注射治疗法在她的脸上留下了“皮下蛋奶冻似的浮动物。每天早上我一醒来就*担心我看起来会是怎样的。”一位专家告诉她修复这种伤害将花费500w英镑。
这些治疗手段也让我们不断地去对自己的长相进行自省，考虑我们所**的改变，然后直面那些伸手可及的幸福。“这样一种满足感的循环是无尽头的，”blum说，“以后会是怎样的？‘哈，我还有17年呢’——但是17年后会是怎样的呢？我想，那是人们又会面临高危警钟了。”blum相信一旦你开始接受美容手术治疗，就很难停止脚步。“如果整的结果不错，你被**了，但如果结果不如人意，你可就被套进去了，因为你还要去修复它，所以不管那条路都是很容易把人拖入沼泽的。”
那么在公共生活中我们会希望这些成为我们的选择吗？去年，作者charla krupp的文章“如何看上去不老”荣登纽约时代月刊最畅销榜，并且在一次条约中声称，她的“焦点在于工作场合……（这本书）是为那些突然发现自己比其他工友看上去*老并且认为自己很容易因此受伤的流动女性准备的”。但是krupp并不倾向塑料品手术，她是非扩散性整容手术的坚定支持者，她说，“这个时代的我们是十分幸运的，因为我们可以去皮肤病诊所接受整容手术，在一周，通常是48小时内去处额头上的皱纹~~~~”krupp的观点得到了近期头版文章的回应，这些文章反映出这样一个冲突：在那些“年轻化”的工作领域，年龄大的人群借助美容来稳定自己的地位。美国marie clare杂志的judith newman披露其中一位描述了自己在接受嘴唇吸脂手术后针口上流出的血滴。
把演员奉为模型这是很自然的，但是当面对整容手术这样一个情况时，这么做是相当可笑的，因为，谈及面容时他们承受着相当大的压力。为此，即使是风险相当大的选择，他们也必须接受，这一定很容易明白，但这并不意味着大众也得这么做。相反，我们得问自己“我真的希望麻痹自己的脸部肌肤吗？真的希望去掉所有年龄的印记吗？真的希望接受只有尽可能保持年轻才能有立足之地这一观点吗？”如果我们回答“是的”，那么我们就屈从于绝对的性别歧视、年龄歧视的观点。就让我们直面它吧！屈从不等于娇容！