Unless you are disfigured by illness, accident, etc., I’d say when you become uncomfortable in the skin you are in. Over 40 would be my best guess for elective changes. Sooner than that and you’ll end up with a redo in 10-15 yrs.

I personally would not have cosmetic surgery……..I’ll just let nature take it’s course. It disturbs me to hear of young Teen age girls having surgery to change the way they look………I can understand if they have something wrong that makes them lose confidence in their natural beauty. I guess each individual has to make that decision for themselves. Some women age quicker than others. I think women in their natural state are the most beautiful between the ages of thirty and fifty…….it starts going a little down hill from there…….but that’s the way it’s supposed to be.

Disfigurement is the only reason I would ever consider plastic surgery. But, who are we to say where to draw the line between what someone thinks is disfiguring and what is a minor imperfection? Here’s a bit of a thought provoking question I read in a book years ago. “Would you pull the wings off a butterfly for a trip around the world?” After giving this question your consideration, you were instructed to turn to a page in the back of the book and the follow-up question was: “Would you kill a cockroach for a trip around the world?” They then prompted you to discuss what was the difference between the two. Who are you to determine where beauty stops and ugly begins? I am almost certain the book was called “The Book of Questions” and I am so sad that in my moves it has found its way to the hands of another. I haven’t seen it in years.

Whenever WoW executives decide to pay for my makeover, I will be ready!!!! Otherwise I will just stay the same old me.

It’s such a hazy subject and one women become very opinionated and, may I say, judgmental about. I’ve always been of the stance that if there is something about your body that just really really really bothers you…do all the inner work you can to come to terms with it, but in the end if you’re wasting more energy on it than it’s worth, change it. For example, we’ve all seen beautiful women who were blessed for whatever reason with a huge “hook” nose ~ What’s the difference in “fixing” that as compared to putting braces on crooked teeth or covering up some gray hair? Come on ladies…Now, if a woman is fine with her God-given nose, more power to her, but just because a like-nosed women choses to change hers, in my opinion, doesn’t make her less self-actualized. I think we’ve all seen those people who everyone, including my eighty-eight year old father-in-law who can hardly see without a magnifying glass, can agree have gone WAY over to the scary side of surgery…the lizard look, the breasts that sit just under chin level over washboard abs and thighs smaller than the average calves. THAT is a problem…but fixing a tummy stretched beyond belief from having babies or lifting breasts that are closer to the knees than the chest—why not? I’d be interested to hear from some of the WOW women who have and have not had cosmetic surgery. Anyone brave enough? Everyone keeps it so hush-hush, but if we were more open about it and respected each other’s right to choose, it wouldn’t be such a big deal and maybe some of that over-the-top beauty obsessiveness would stop.

I would say never but then again never say never. My eye lids are drooping more and more and I may have to face this surgery just to be able to see correctly. I am not happy about it either.

Unless a young person has a broken or otherwise unsightly nose with breathing problems, a dis-figuring facial injury…you get my drift…it is a terrible trend that young people are allowed to have cosmetic plastic surgery. I question the moral ethics of plastic surgeons that perform breast augmentations on 18 yr. olds, and the parents that pay for it. Cosmetic surgery was intended for people mature enough to live with their own decisions.

Another thread about cosmetic surgery? sigh––––– Could we hijack this one to pay our respects to George? Come on Mugsy, Frank, et al––what say you?