Plastic surgery shows:

Thanks to my current roommate, I've developed an addiction to the plastic surgery shows on Discovery Health Channel.

It turns out I feel pretty strongly about this. The 18 year old girl who just had a nose job and is now having a breast augmentation, the woman who's had about 15 procedures in her life, the overweight (and probably already at least a C cup) woman who's getting a breast augmentation, it all just makes me so sad.

There are plenty of people on these shows who really need plastic surgery. There will be someone who lost a lot of weight and has a lot of excess skin, or someone with a big birthmark on their face or a small young woman with DD breasts who needs a breast reduction or something.

But most of them, well, they don't really need a brow lift, or a breast augmentation and afterwards it looks fake, because, well it is. They can't really fight time, and the more they try, the worse it looks and the older they look.

Maybe it's easy to say this when the flight attendant still asks me if I'm at least 15, though. Maybe I'll be just as afraid of looking old when I hit 50.