Moments of Empowerment

“This is hilarious. When I realized that my skin was luminous, it really lifted me up. Then a man whose opinion I care about told me that my skin was glowing, which was a reinforcement. But this is actually funny. I was in North Beach on Grant Alley Street and ran into someone I haven’t seen in 22 years. She’s in great shape, a little bit older than I am. We used to work out together. She’s had plenty of work done, and she hollers across the street, “Betsy, have you had a facelift?” Of course, I haven’t had any surgical procedures, and I thought to myself, “Oh my goodness, this works.”

I mean, you talk about it, and she hollered it for the world to hear. It was quite funny. That’s just an anecdote, but it’s very hard to know what we look like in the mirror, and we’re all hypercritical of photos. So, to have someone respond like that was pretty uplifting.”