As if puberty weren’t bad enough the first time around, we get to relive it again at middle age!
This morning I woke up and looked in the mirror to see zits. At 54? I thought my days of overnight breakouts and acne creams were over! Apparently not, as MORE editor Lesley Jane Seymour so accurately points out in the October 2009 issue. Lesley is dead on when she explains the perplexing, annoying, insufferable fact that middle age is like going through puberty all over again. A second shot at our worst time in life.I got to thinking about the ways that my own puberty is coming back to haunt me, and came up with this Top Ten list of midlife's little horrors:
10. Blemishes. Just when we thought we were in the clear, out comes an attack of zits. Once again, we're slathering on cover-up creams and salycilic acid, only this time our facial treatment arsenal includes wrinkle creams, SPF moisturizers, collagen fillers, and an entire cosmetics aisle full of anti-aging remedies.
9. Body Changes. One day it seemed I was sliding into size six jeans and my daughter's baby doll tees, and the next I was trying to disquise a muffin top. What a rip-off! I've spent half my life on a treadmill, only to have Mother Nature treat my body like a Stretch Armstrong doll, pulling me into some misshapen oddity of wobbly thighs, disappearing waist, and swollen ankles. At least at puberty we could get excited about the monumental arrival of breasts. Now we just worry about keeping them above our navels.
