Gen X Journey

I like Kylie Minogue.  Really I do. I love the fact that she sings upbeat peppy little songs. I like the fact that she’s a little Aussie girl done good. I’m not even jealous of how fantastic she looks in those little gold hot pants. There was that whole winning battle with breast cancer. Inspirational. And that lovely Spanish boyfriend–he’s just fine, so well done her.MinogueNow I like Kylie

Kylie has come out and admitted that the secret to her long-lasting beauty is the daily use of Ponds Cold Cream. What a load of bullshit. Apparently she’s given up the botox and has gone back to the product of her youth–Ponds Cold Cream as recommended by her mother. Wouldn’t you like to have insider knowledge of that because sales of Pond’s Cold Cream has soared 120%. Oh if only it were true. In my experience Ponds Cold Cream results in pimples.

So Kylie’s given up the botox, is whacking on the cold cream and is comfortable with herself at 42. Kylie Minogue–you have not given up the botox. That’s a big fat lie (but that’s only my opinion, mind). Have a look at Kylie’s eyebrows. They are at a place where no eyebrow has ever gone of its own accord.

Now don’t get me wrong. There is nothing wrong with anyone doing anything they want to their face if it makes them happy, but I get really cross when they start lying about it. Actually I have invented a new term for it Notox–people who use botox and emphatically deny it. Wonder if it’ll catch on?

Take Nicole Kidman and her denial of ever using botox. What a big slap in the face that was to all the rest of us aging 40 year olds. Yep, mother nature made an Australian redhead look that wrinkle free. I think we all went a bit off her then. That’s why people really hated her in Australia, because she was telling fibs, not because her acting was awful.

Actually on the subject of Nicole, have you seen her new hooters. She’s walking around poking them out like a ten-year-old in a training bra. She’s going to get back strain poor thing.

I don’t think she’s had a boob job though. I reckon she’s had that procedure where they put filler into the boobs–the lunchtime boob job. Less permanent than silicone. Anyway she loves them and good on her, putting them out there in all those plunging dresses. All that media speculation. Good job at getting back in the headlines, Nicole, you clever girl.

You may wonder where I get all this knowledge of these procedures. Well I’d like to thank the Lifestyle channels and a steady diet of women’s magazines for that. I am addicted to transformation. Transformations of faces, bodies, lifestyles, diet and houses.

This therefore has given me a knowledge akin to Dr 90210’s of who had what done where. There is also the small matter that I probably have too much time on my hands.

There’s a website devoted to telling us what stars have had what done, but a real doctor does this, not a woman with an addiction to makeover shows. He draws pictures over their faces and goes into heaps of detail. I learned a new phrase there–crying botox face. Has pictures and all. There is a new bogey man in town–crying botox face.

Lucky for Kylie she’s given it up. Image