Kirstie Clements, former editor-in-chief of Vogue Australia, was one of the first to try cosmetic procedures as they made their way into Australia. Over two decades, she says she tried everything from injectables to extreme laser skin resurfacing. Her view on ageing has now changed.
SBS On Demand As a former Vogue editor and long-time beauty editor, I’ve always been fascinated by the world of beauty products and procedures. I've watched as invasive cosmetic procedures and surgeries have become as normal as having a facial or buying a new handbag, where young people scarcely out of their teens are having their perfectly lovely natural lips and cheeks filled and their unlined faces frozen with Botox.
Over the next two decades, I had numerous Botox sessions, lip line injections, laser peels, painful radio frequency treatments that felt like being punched in the jaw, and one scary session when my skin was lasered raw with fat extracted from my thighs and pressed into my face, causing it to scab and swell to the size of a lion. My family were horrified. I was horrified. It was time for me to confront how I wanted to age, and at what point I was prepared to accept reality.
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