women my age, I fetishised slim, angular faces with big features. The kind seen in fashion campaigns, Winona Ryder films, and Mizz, the now-defunct teen magazine.
I would look in the mirror at my face, pull my cheeks back with my palms and think, “that’s better”. Sometimes I still do this.
Linda Evangelista is one of the world’s most beautiful women: her beauty is the reason she is famous. So when I heard that the 56-year-old Canadian supermodel had been left “permanently deformed” by a fat-freezing cosmetic procedure, my first instinct was to despair that not even someone like her was immune to the impossible beauty standards facing women.
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