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Hi Susie
As well as coping with a soon-to-be teenage daughter, I find myself the wrong side of 40 and not liking the changes.
I really don't want to go down the plastic surgery route but I am finding the inevitable lines and wrinkles and general effects of gravity hard to accept. Earlier this year I decided I really wanted to lose some weight and tone up and I am doing well with that and I do feel a lot better about myself. Have you any other advice?
Thanks
sapphy_1
Lines and wrinkles? I think they are part of what comes along with being a certain age! I know mine did... and continue to. I don't know about you but I sometimes resent having to look like a doll to be visible when I have actually lived a few years.
There are so many ways our beauty expresses itself and it is hard when we don't see pictures of women who are 40, 50 and so on glamourised. It can make us invisible when we are doing so many worthwhile things.
Look at your friends. Do you find them pleasing or unattractive? I bet it is the former. And I imagine they feel that way about you too. Try not to judge your body as being a failed 20-year-old's body or face, but the face of a lovely coming-to-be 40 year old...
For more info and answers to other questions go to www.campaignforrealbeauty.co.uk. and download TALK TO HER or call the Dove Careline 0800 085 1548 to request the booklet.
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