Sharon Obsourne said on Chelsea Lately that she's tired of celebrities that lie about their plastic surgery, from face-lifts to filler injections to Botox to straight-up implants. The professional reality-show subject ingeniously likened Nicole Kidman's unresponsive forehead to a "fucking flatscreen TV." But there's much more openness now about cosmetic enhancement than ever been before.

Maybe it's the boomers: they're all getting older, and a 2006 study found that their generation was actually less embarrassed about admitting to plastic surgery than the youngs. Perhaps the youth are still under the sway of the bullshit fed to us via interviews with surgery-denying stars: if you just eat leafy greens, refrain your entire life from drinking and smoking, and guzzle plenty of water, you will simply not age! Like Nicole Kidman.

We may have mocked Mary Rambin of Nonsociety for getting Restylane at age 26—broadcasted on a blog—but let's be honest: when the injectable filler's PR rep contacted us afterwards and suggested that a treatment could be arranged if we were interested, we took a long, hard look at our marionette lines in the mirror.

Listen: aging—especially for women—is terrifying. A woman's major social currency—especially in a vain, youth-obsessed city like New York—is her looks. This is unfair and sexist. It's also true, regardless of professional accomplishment.

Women are also getting married later, and crow's feet only makes them feel more vulnerable than they already do. It's a jungle out there, and we're all fucking cavemen who primally prefer youth. Plastic surgery (done with a light touch, and not prematurely) isn't even vanity under these conditions—it's shrewdness.

In the words of Ozzy Osbourne's wife: "If something bothers you, it doesn't make you happy, then change it."

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