I was put to the test amongst a new set of friends recently. They were chatting about what they would change if they had the money for cosmetic enhancements. It was the expected conversational dance; “I need a boob job” met the response “I’d get a tummy tuck”, and so on. Except, as eyes turned to me, ready for me to share the flaw I was keen to fix, I couldn’t think of anything. In that moment, I was alright with myself. “I wouldn’t change anything,” I said, shrugging. I quickly got the sense that this response was wrong. (If you’re thinking of that Mean Girls scene — you’re spot on; the one where Regina George and co stand in front of a mirror picking apart their skin, hair and nails, and Lindsey Lohan’s character, Cady, feeling the pressure to participate, says, “I get bad breath in the morning”).
