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My Formerly Hot Life

Dispatches From Just The Other Side of Young

Happiness
The day I woke up no longer young

Stephanie Dolgoff on May 26, 2010

I was no longer that woman, as evidenced by the lines, the postpartum droop, and the metabolism that stuck its lip out and refused to cooperate, or would have, if metabolisms had lips. People treated me differently, because I was different, and my self-definition was a little slow on the uptake. 

I was no longer that woman, as evidenced by the lines, the postpartum droop, and the metabolism that stuck its lip out and refused to cooperate, or would have, if metabolisms had lips. People treated me differently, because I was different, and my self-definition was a little slow on the uptake.