Holy moley. Get your eye bleach ready. (GOP wives)

[Sarah Ibarruri]

141. I don't think I was nasty. I merely pointed out that I believe you're deluding yourself

in thinking that public figures do not have *EVERYTHING* surgical done to themselves. I honestly believe people, particularly men, have lost complete notion of what women look like WITHOUT plastic surgery, and have begun to believe that the plasticized women are the norm, and the rest have somehow 'let themselves go.'

The media is to blame to a great degree. However, ourselves have to be aware.

There was another post in which this precise thing was being discussed, that because public figures, particularly females, are going under the knife in vertiginously high numbers, the concept now is that females that are middle aged and older, have a stomach so flat and firm you can bounce a dime on it, when the reality is the opposite. In fact, most humans don't have a stomach like that.

What's really shocking is when people say, "Oh she looks really good for her age" about public figures whose primary activity is fighting time with plastic surgery.

And yes, genes do have something to do with it, and in that southern mediterraneans and dark skinned people might perhaps hold up a tiny bit better. However, it still applies. In middle age, fat redistributes, the belly area begins to collect fat, skin sags, hair begins to lose its color, teeth move from their places, skin thins out, collagen disappears at a fast rate, and the only way to pretend to be younger, is to go visit the friendly Dr. and pay tens of thousands of dollars per procedure to fight the ravage of time.

If this society weren't so obsessed with youth and living in the pretense that old age is an anomale, rather than a natural and normal thing, we would be more sensible about it, and stop dreaming that a woman (or a man) in the 50s and 60s, has a washboard stomach and a tiny waist without the local plastic surgeon's help.