我的朋友茱莉亚是一位42岁的才华横溢的作家，她撰写的是儿童科幻小说。但她有一次去学校接她5岁的儿子时，这一“不幸”的时刻降临在了她的身上。
One of his classmates stared fixedly at her brow and asked: 'Why has your forehead got stripes on it?'
她儿子的一位同班同学，紧盯着茱莉亚的额头问道：“为什么你的前额上又好多小细纹呀？”
For Sophie, 50, a successful PR executive, the feeling of revelation came when she caught a sudden glimpse of her burgeoning rear in a changing room mirror.
而同样的经历也发生在苏菲身上，她是一名50岁的公关主任，当她在试衣间的镜子里瞥见了自己后背上“展露头角”的细纹时，她也感到了一阵慌张。
'I looked at the reflection and thought: "Is that fat, middle-aged woman really me?" ' she confessed.
她说，“我看到镜中的自己，我问到‘那个胖胖的中年妇女真的是我吗’”？
Why are we women in mid-life so obsessed with losing our looks?
为什么中年女性经常为她们逝去的青春容颜困扰不已呢？