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How to age gracefully lesson #1: Say no to the scalpel

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My husband has had a mild crush on Kim Cattrall ever since she played Lieutenant Valeris in one of the Star Trek movies. I think she was a Vulcan, maybe? Of course, it probably didn't hurt that she's gorgeous and seems more than willing to take off her clothes in front of the camera. And who can't love the fact that she's 51 glorious years old and has pointedly stated that she has no intention of going under the knife. Her face? It looks older than most 51-year-old actors in Hollywood, but that's because it's actually aging, rather than being stretched and pulled and puffed and 'Toxed out of recognition. Seriously, in 1985, if someone had told you that Meg Ryan was going to do this to herself, would you even have believed it? Not my Sally!

There's nothing attractive about stretching your face until you start looking like the puppet Madame and sure, it's one thing when you're aging extremely gracefully, as is Ms. Cattrall, but I do wish more women were telling Hollywood's impossible beauty standards to go take a flying leap. There was nothing wrong with Kathy Griffin, for instance. Not a thing!

So I have to say "Go Kim!", especially when you look at the kind of insidious nonsense that she's fighting from all courts. She might not quite be my own personal girl crush just yet, but she is definitely my body image hero. But if she starts looking in Esteban's direction, the gloves are off and lady is going down.

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