BRYONY GORDON: I had Botox and suffered a very unexpected side-effect. It made me realise the truth about ageing... and celebrities and their endless tweakments
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I was having a coffee with a friend when she announced that, later that day, she was off to get her ‘face done’. I wasn’t sure what she meant. Was she going to have a facial? Was she visiting Space NK for a makeover? No, it turned out that she was off to get Botox and ‘perhaps a little piriform fossa’.
![[Keely Hodgkinson in her elegant black dress at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year ceremony this week]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/19/16/93321635-14210775-image-a-61_1734625818457.jpg)
‘A little whatty whata?’ I replied, utterly confused. ‘It’s filler, Bryony.’ She seemed stunned by my ignorance. ‘You get it injected into the nasolabial folds.’. She had to explain to me what nasolabial folds were – smile lines, apparently, rather than any of the more intimate places my mind had ventured to. I sat there, my face by now a series of deep frown lines as she told me that everybody got tweakments, and I was in danger of missing the boat if I didn’t start soon.
‘You should get a bit of Botox at the very least. Otherwise you’re going to start to look old.’. I was reminded of our conversation this week, when I read that Trinny Woodall, 60, had started getting Botox at the tender age of 35. The chat with my friend took place two years ago, when I was 42. Back then, I naively believed I had a few years to go before I felt the pressure to succumb to tweakments. And yet, as the days went on, and I asked more and more friends if they’d had them, I discovered I hadn’t just missed the boat when it came to injecting things into my face … it had sailed off into the sunset, with all my mates on it, who were having a whale of a time without me on their decadent tweakment cruise.
