This evening while watching The Project, the panel was talking about the stage show Mary Poppins to a guest who was in the show.

“Who’s she?” I asked Andrew.

He looked up from his phone then started talking about Mrs Poppins and how she was an awful character in the book.

“Don’t tell me she’s Marina Pryor?!” I asked incredulously.

I couldn’t believe it. She’s well known in Australia as an opera singer but I had never seen her like this. She’s about 56 years old but she looked a lot younger and very different to the Marina Pryor I knew some years ago!

It was another person on the screen!

Here was another one who succumbed to the surgeon’s knife.

I’m amazed at how many women have resorted to procedures to look younger. Botox, neck lifts, face lifts, jowl lifts, you name it, it seems to be a thing now. These procedures are so common place that it’s quite rare to see celebrities with their original faces.

The rare ones like actor, Sarah Jessica Parker, director Justine Bateman and model Paulina Porizkova stand out as the exceptions and I do wonder the huge pressure they must be under in their industry. I don’t envy them.

It’s disconcerting for me when I see so many women resorting to the knife. I think it’s prevalent of the society we live in now when youth and beauty is revered. In my opinion, it’s not about giving these women confidence to look their best; it’s more about them living in a society that has made them invisible just because they’re over a certain age.

It’s such a pity. What I’ve found is that women this age are smart, funny and worldly. They’re the people who SHOULD be given a voice and a presence in this self obsessed society. They’d give us a wake up call. 🤣

I’ve decided to age gracefully.

No injections, fillers, surgery, no medication, nothing. I’m going old school and even embracing my grey hair now despite having a love hate relationship with it. The only thing that I have changed is that I have a skin care routine which is fairly straightforward with non expensive creams and weak retinol and a Vit C serum. Then topped with a couple of organic non invasive facials at Endota Spa. Every so often I’ll do some facial yoga and massage but that’s it.

If that means making me completely invisible that’s okay. That’s a superpower.