Cosmetic surgery is the latest lockdown trend. Apparently many people who’d been umming and ahhing over whether to submit to the scalpel have gone for it in recent months. One factor is they don’t have to worry about colleagues seeing them as they convalesce, all black eyes and scar tissue. Come the spring, when hopefully the WFH imperative will have eased off, patients can return to the office all shiny and new. Call it the Zellweger Fantasy, which sounds like a book by Robert Ludlum but in fact describes the phenomenon by which someone disappears from public view and re-emerges looking like a completely different person.
Noting the appeal of the Zellweger Fantasy, my thoughts turn to double-taking co-workers in April shouting: “Crikey! Who
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