An Obsession with Youth

Andrea Huls
4 min readMar 4, 2024

Must women stay young forever?

Foto de Danie Franco en Unsplash

I grew up obsessed with thinness. Now I’m 39, should I obsess over staying young? I’ve seen friends and colleagues begin to worry about wrinkles and gray hairs. Gosh, we are getting old!

Are we?

A while ago, a friend of mine told me that for her birthday, she wanted to get Botox. She explained that the bags under her eyes made her look old.

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Andrea Huls

Writer, documentary filmmaker, photographer, feminist, mother, and much more.