A first-person monologue (by Misty Tripoli) critiquing cultural messages that equate women's worth with beauty, youth, and sexuality. The speaker argues that seeking love based on appearance is unsustainable and shares a candid anecdote about getting liposuction at 21 to illustrate how early conditioning drives cosmetic choices.
We've all done this right where we left and we go, look at how great I'd be with a facelift. I should do it. Just a little tuck. But the reality is the why. And we, as women, unfortunately, have been conditioned to believe that our value, our worth is tied to our beauty and our sexuality and our body. And it's unfortunate, but that's just kind of the way that it's been. The truth is, if. If someone really, really loves you, they don't care that you have wrinkles. The right person will love you because they love you. And how dangerous it is to get into a relationship with someone that loves you because of the way that you look, because that's exhausting. Because to keep that love, you have to maintain that look. And who's got that kind of time? No, thank you. It's hard to let go. Super hard to let go. So hard to let go of wanting to be beautiful. The definition of beautiful, which is young and vibrant, and society doesn't define the older woman as the beautiful woman. Youth is the thing that we idolize, right? And the things that we're willing to do to. To do that and make it happen. And yeah, I did it. I was in it. I had liposuction when I was 21 years old because I wasn't okay with the size of my ass. I look back now going, why didn't I keep that ass? I had a badunk. I would. What I wouldn't do for a badunk now, like. But no, I was stupid and had that sucked out when I was 21 years old.
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