But I have clung to the fact that we live in Norway, a country where deep down we love apple cheeks over blush and prefer snowflakes on our eyelashes more than mascara. With the news about Tjelta, Rudjord and Skarbø’s new clinic, apple cheeks and snowflakes have officially been replaced by botox and fillers. I don’t know what saddens me the most. The fact that it is disguised behind women’s health, or all the applauding women in the comments section under Rudjord’s post on Instagram. “Hooray” “Fix me” “Finally” Botox is still so new that we know little about where the injections end up. The research has also lacked funding, because why would the clinics donate money to something that could harm their biggest source of income? After seeing the comment section on Vanessa Rudjord’s post about this new “health center”, I suspect where the nerve agent ends up: the brain. CLINIC: Former journalist and presenter, Synnøve Skarbø, actress and designer Pia Tjelta and former fashion editor, Vanessa Rudjord, will open their new beauty clinic in Oslo in October. According to the trio, the clinic will become the Nordic region’s leading clinic in “aesthetic medicine”. Photo: Julie Pike So there are intelligent women here, knocking on the doors of the clinic, even before they have opened. Sisters I hoped I could experience a natural old age with. Ladies with whom I could smile then my crow’s toes creaked, while we discuss the importance of women’s health, or the latest book by Trude Marstein. Grown ladies, who do not resist the phases of life, but confident ladies, with self-confidence, who pass the baton on to smooth daughters, where life has not left a single trace, either on face or body. The course of life, I think it’s called. At least before. And you know what! The fact that more and more women, now also three pieces that many look up to, fix on already beautiful faces and bodies, makes me feel insecure myself. Ugh, I hate that. I want to be better, but I’m not. I even think that grown women are really pretty, even though everything around me, and now also Tjelta, Rudjord and Skarbø, are trying to convince me of the opposite. So yes, the sadness comes from it becoming harder and harder to insist that beauty comes from within. Also towards myself. The pressure gets to everyone, including me. The outrage comes over the use of the word “women’s health” in the launch of this clinic, which wise minds have written about before me. Women’s health is the fight for better maternity care, split stomach muscles and urinary leaks after childbirth, endometriosis and preeclampsia, to name a few. I had the latter myself in 2018, and there are actually no clear answers as to why it occurs, only that it can be fatal for the mother if the child is not delivered. Photo: Jonas Tomter / news Yes, you read correctly. DEADLY, but they don’t quite know what it is. Medicine? Hm… Blood thinner? Not because it has been researched, but it shows that it is the only thing that can have an effect. Women die because research is devoted to men. Therefore, we must not lose sight of the importance of the word women’s health. When Skarbø in DN claims that the man’s aging problems can be solved with a magical Viagra, I wonder what an erection has in common with a tight face. Lack of potency is actually categorized as a functional impairment, and I didn’t think signs of aging should be sorted under the same. Wrinkles are not a diagnosis, they are life. Let’s agree, and I think Pia, Vanessa and Synnøve know that too. This has nothing to do with health. This is what you see in the mirror, and whether you like it or not. I wish more people liked what they saw, and not least did other things than looking in the mirror. I don’t think Vanessa Rudjord likes getting older, as she claims in DN. I don’t think it’s like having one hand on the wheel when you freeze your own (often missing) body fat. Not even when all the lines of life’s ups and downs have been injected away with a needle. One hand on the wheel testifies to relaxed driving, perhaps a coffee cup in the other. I have one hand on the wheel, Rudjord is not someone I would sit with. I have had to follow three ladies I consider my circle of friends, some also friends. The reason is that all three posted a direct link on Instagram, where I am then one keystroke away from my first fix. If I click on the link, I am welcome to order “onboarding”, a meeting where we can make a plan for a new and younger me at your clinic. Think carefully before you board, and feel free to sit by the street with me. My daughter was crazy about a song this summer. She liked the melody, because fortunately the English was too difficult to get the message across. I know English, and think that song should make me aware of something I had no idea about. I know Victoria’s Secret, and girl, you wouldn’t believe She’s an old man who lives in Ohio, making money off of girls like me Cashing in on body issues, selling skin and bones with big boobs, I know Victoria’s Secret. SHE WAS MADE UP BY A DUDE. And now we know that there are some dudes behind this clinic too.
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Beauty comes from without – Expression
