Gallery: The best Homer Simpson quotes of all time (GamesRadar)Other than a minor op to remove my wisdom teeth, I’d never gone under the knife, and time and again I reprimanded myself for being preoccupied with something that ultimately was about the way I looked in a world where so many people had much bigger problems.
Now I see the relative inaccessibility of surgery then as a blessing. Today, when images of picture-perfect celebrities beam from every Instagram account, I wonder how much pressure I would have felt under to do something sooner, which might have then led me to consider what other parts of my appearance could be solved with surgery.
So for a decade or so I tried to accept my nose, bump and all, albeit still in a hand-cupping, camera-swerving kind of way. But then in my mid-30s, by then co-habiting with my future husband Duncan, a friend of mine took the plunge and had a ‘nose job’.
Her nose wasn’t a honking great hooter either, but she had always hated it — and now she didn’t. I realised if I was ever going to do something, the time was now, especially since my friend had paved the way with her meticulous research into the best ‘nose doctors’ in town.
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