{"id":15942,"date":"2021-03-16T13:22:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T20:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https://www.realself.com\/news\/?p=15942"},"modified":"2024-01-03T12:29:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T20:29:19","slug":"how-facelift-gave-one-woman-confidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https://www.realself.com\/news\/how-facelift-gave-one-woman-confidence","title":{"rendered":"\u201cGetting a Facelift Is Not a Shameful Thing\u201d: How It Gave One Woman Confidence in the Workplace"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our annual Most Worth It list<\/a> recognizes the most-loved aesthetic procedures—from noninvasive tweaks to the gold standard in surgery—as chosen by RealSelf community members like you. This story highlights one or more of the 44 Most Worth It honorees for 2022; you can see the full list and learn more about patients’ favorite procedures here<\/a>.<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>

Terrese is a 58-year-old woman living in Cleveland and working in sales. She got a <\/em>facelift<\/em><\/a> and <\/em>blepharoplasty<\/em><\/a> last year and says the surgeries have had a positive psychological impact on her day-to-day life. This is her story, as told to Alix Tunell, edited for length and clarity. <\/em><\/em><\/p>

I started looking for a new job in technical sales about two years ago, because the company I was working for at the time was closing and I needed to make a transition. It was very scary because I was thinking, How am I going to get hired? I’m 56 years old, I’m going to be with a younger group of applicants, there’s going to be age discrimination<\/em>. <\/p>

Of course, there are lot of things about being an older woman in the workforce that are fabulous—you don’t have to worry about office politics, you have a lot more confidence in your actual work ability—but looking older and being surrounded by young, fresh, smart people who really get technology can feed into a lot of insecurities. <\/p>

I was worried about my prospects, but I ended up getting lucky—I had two serious offers pretty quickly, and the job I ended up taking didn’t ask for gender, age, or race [on the application], which has made for a wonderful and diverse group of people. It’s actually the best company I’ve worked for in my entire career, so this is a story of hope—but it’s also a young company: my boss just turned 40; my counterpart, who trained me, was 29. I’ve always taken really good care of myself—I eat right, I’m in good shape—but after menopause, your skin dries out, you notice the signs of aging immediately coming on, and you just look a bit like a different person in the mirror. <\/p>

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My facelift experience<\/h2>

Ultimately, I didn’t get a facelift because I felt like I had to in order to fit in but because I figured, What the heck, I’m going to be at this great company until I retire, so now is the time<\/em>. Dr. Steven Goldman<\/a> has done my Botox<\/a> for years and he’s a great plastic surgeon, so I knew I’d have good results with him. Once I decided to actually go for it, I told all my friends and family. Everyone knew. The generation before me—my mom and people 20 years or more older than me—seemed to regret not doing it for themselves. I heard a lot of, “Wow, I wish I would have done that. I wish I would have had the courage to do it.”<\/p>

I actually filmed a whole video after my surgery because I thought, Somebody will ask me about this and I’m going to forget<\/em>. In this day and age, we color our hair, we get facials<\/a>… a facelift is just one more thing. I wanted to show anyone who was interested in cosmetic surgery that it’s not a shameful thing.<\/p>

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