“I went in and got my eyes done, and I’m not happy about it,” said Rogers, “they’re too tight around the eyelids for me - it drives me crazy!” Tom Jones should take note. The Welsh women’s underpants target has recently been warned by doctors that if he has any more enhancements, his eyes might pop out of his head.
Makes a few hours spent having your boyfriend’s name etched into your epidermis with a hot needle seem wimpy in comparison.
Perhaps the only real difference between traditional forms of body décor and cosmetic surgery is that while a tattoo or piercing aims to differentiate the owner and express individuality, surgery aims to suppress it and conform to a norm of beauty. On a recent interview on Parkinson, Jane Fonda (no stranger to surgery herself) lamented that women in Hollywood are starting to look the same, whereas European women “had their life experience” writ large on their visages.
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A flat stomach is arguably more desirable that a fat one - but it isn’t subversive, wacky, or even particularly interesting. It’s highly unlikely you’d ever start a conversation in a pub, saying, “Wow, tell me the story of how you’re belly got so taut …” Unless of course that pub was in Fairytopia.
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