Most Women End Up Looking Like Their Mothers

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

I'm truly convinced by this article on Foxnews, that just about any subject can be written about, but I question why is it newsworthy? This article suggests that “There may be some truth to the saying that all women will eventually turn into their mothers….”. Wow, I could have told you that for free by looking in a mirror, instead of producing a study that shows “Daughters age and wrinkle like their mothers.” All my life I have been told I look like my mother and in the 4th decade of my life that is not looking so good, as my mother is in her 7th decade. I’m not saying my mother is ugly or anything, just that it is harder and harder to tell in pictures if we are mother-daughter or sisters.


My first response to this article was ‘Duh’ because I am a realist when it comes to biological processes. Even if I could look gorgeous at 70 years of age I would still have old protoplasm, so it’s not much of an enlightening trade off to see where this article was going in the hopes of “cosmetic rejuvenation of the eye region.”


However this was another attempt to show off the technology for the vain, where “Plastic surgeons used facial imaging and 3D computer modeling to study the aging process and found that daughters' faces tend to follow their mothers in terms of sagging and volume loss, particularly around the corners of their eyes and lower eyelids.” "This study applies state-of-the-art facial imaging and three-dimensional computer modeling to measure changes in the aging female face." This is exciting obviously to them to be able to report this factually instead of just by “observational and subjective," data. My excitement of reading this news turned from gaseous to nausea, when I read further and found that they only based the study using “10 sets of similar looking mother-daughter pairs aged from 15 to 90 to measure changes in the aging female face.” This is not a valid study at all, as it is well know by the educated that it would take at least 100 sets of subjects to make a valid study. I suppose this information could be helpful to the singer Kenny Rodgers if they had maybe studied his Dad in this way before plastic surgeons took a knife to him. My perspective on that note is changing to compassion for all the women who have had botched eyelid surgeries and live scarred for life as monsters behind dark glasses. Yes, I do believe that if this kind of research would help prevent those tragedies, then I find the information in this article empowering.

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) as reported in this article “shows that it, (eyelid surgery) was the fourth most popular cosmetic surgical procedure in the United States in 2008. The researchers in the study say their “findings may act as a further guideline for Eyelid surgery is one of the most common cosmetic procedures, used to get rid of crows' feet around the eyes and sagging to make the face appear younger." I guess only time will tell if this is true.