In a recent article about breast implants that appeared on TheBostonChannel.com, a woman named Jen says:

“I just wanted to look good again. I wanted to feel that feeling I had when I was younger — just for myself. Not for anybody else but myself.”

Jen is a make-up artist and mother of three.

Whenever I read stuff like this, it makes me wonder. I think: But you ARE a mother, you ARE older. What part of you doesn’t accept that? And what would your life be like if you could accept it? You are not younger. You are YOU, now, a mom — older, wiser and probably wonderful and creative. In the article, Jen goes on to say she feels the pressure, so why not call a spade a spade and realize it is just that - pressure? It’s not reality or who she really is.

It scares me that women are in such denial of who they are and not embracing themselves. Maybe Jen’s attempt to recapture “that feeling I had when I was younger” came from accepting what she was back then rather than wishing to be someone she’s not.