Death, Sex & Money | From Brazilian Butt Lifts to Botox: Your Beauty Confessions

Over the past few months, we've been asking you to tell us stories
about your beauty interventions. You told us about feeling caught
between viewing appearance improvements as vanity and recognizing
how much looking a certain way affects your relationships, career,
and self-worth. In this episode, Anna talks to listeners about
their appearance choices: Asher, who spent $43,000 on plastic
surgery and openly celebrates his investments; Caroline, who used
fillers and Botox after her divorce but recently filed for
bankruptcy and can no longer afford treatments; Alexandra, who
stopped dyeing her gray hair at 38 despite pushback from family;
and Nick, whose multiple cosmetic surgeries nearly ended his
marriage and forced him to confront deeper issues. Read Nick
Dothée’s essay: What Plastic Surgery Couldn’t Fix Podcast
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