There’s a famous quote from renowned philosopher Courteney Cox about how the time comes when women have to choose between their face and their body. It’s actually really depressing.
“In Hollywood, to get your bottom half to be the right size, your face may have to be a little gaunt,” she said — admittedly many years ago — in response to criticism about her being “too thin”.
Courteney is now older and wiser (she’s 60! Monica Geller is 60 years old!) and says she regrets temporarily messing her face up with fillers in a bid to redress the face/body balance. And while she hasn’t said as much, I’d imagine she might also regret casually saying that bodies have a “right size” since it’s not really OK to say that sort of thing anymore, even if we all know it’s as true as ever.
However, it does all serve to highlight a related issue that I worry about from time to time: has all this running made me look really old? Because something mildly mortifying happened to me at Heathrow Airport last month that has brought this trivial, vain and self-indulgent issue to the forefront for me.
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