I’ll take growing old on the chin and say no to the surgeon’s knife

What a shock to learn that Marilyn Monroe’s beauty owed a little to the surgeon’s knife.

It’s like finding Cleopatra, as well as bathing in asses milk, relied on Botox.

X-rays now reveal a surgeon carried out a chin implant on Marilyn in 1950.

It’s sad. She was only in her 30s and at the height of her powers, but still she clearly felt she didn’t quite measure up.

Nothing has changed for women.

We still agonise over our defects. As teenagers a few spots can play havoc with our confidence. Even in our best years our 20s, 30s and 40s there’s always something we’d like to ‘fix’, whether it’s our skin, hair, eyebrows, breasts, bums or tums.

Then our 50s and 60s bring a new range of issues sagging, middle age spread, thinning hair. Go into any Ladies room on a night out and you’ll see anxious women dabbing at their complexion and re-adjusting the pantie-line of their Spanx knickers.

It’s hard work being a woman.

It’s a thousand times harder if your career depends on your image. Marilyn knew she only had a few years of being hailed as an iconic beauty.

Today, image is just as vital to models, celebs, actresses and singers. So they have a little work done. They see it as an investment in themselves is it so wrong?

Well look at Sharon Osbourne. She’s one feisty, opinionated woman. But she’s had so much work done on her face it now lacks real expression.

I’ve met women who’ve had ‘procedures’ and the problem is, when you start going under the knife, where and when do you stop? So even though I might glower at my early morning face in the mirror I’ll settle for what I’ve got.

The latest claims for a miracle-working pot of face cream? Lead me to it but save the knives for slicing the lemon for a restorative gin and tonic.

Just the instant glow I need!