Where do they find these people?
What I'm really thinking: the Botox user: 'It does give me quiet satisfaction that I have this slightly shocking secret'
(This is a 'shocking secret' that can go right up there with Time Out's staff's 'guilty pleasures'. I.e., as it 'you don't get out much, do you?')
But aside from that
I could never tell my partner; he would hate the idea.... He doesn't really comment on how I look, but he's very judgmental about other women who have cosmetic treatments, so I don't dare tell him. I want him to be aware that I look better, but not why. I do feel bad about the money; he'd be shocked if he knew how much I've spent. It costs me £250 every three or four months, which adds up.
While on the one hand I don't think that partners should necessarily be communicating absolutely everything they are up to to one another, I do wonder if here we are somewhat in the same realm as being shopaholic.
I'm also a bit interrogatory about a relationship in which one partner is very judgemental about women who have cosmetic treatments, and the other one feels they have to keep on improving themself, or at least holding back the Ravagez ov Tiem at £250 a pop every few months. Hmmmmm.
And on body-policing issues, I was profoundly appalled by this piece on 'quick-fix treatments' for 'obesity' for complete failure to interrogate underlying assumptions about what this is and just blanket accepts that it is Big Problem of Western Society Today. Sigh. Also, avoid comments.
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