Dr. Elizabeth Comen

I mean, let's be clear.

I'm vain myself.

I'm not here without the lip gloss.

I got a blowout because, you know, it's your podcast and all, right?

And my mom likes to joke that her middle name is Vanita.

So it's not that I'm opposed to all of these things and the pursuit of aging gracefully, aka with a little Botox.

Mm-hmm.

But I think it's important that women understand where the field came from, where these pressures come from.

They're not new.

They've been there a long time.

And when you look at breast implants, for example.

Talk about that, because that one also blew me away.

There was a medical term, micromastia, that was developed to say, like, small-breasted women are going to feel insecure about their bodies, develop an inferiority complex, because this was along with the rise of the field of psychiatry.

And in order to treat these disorders, you had to give women bigger breasts.

Right.

I think they might be, but I hope we would still have access to the things that women want.

But I think the conversations would be different.

And I think the things that we pursue, like Barbie vagina and labiaplasties, it's like- We're going to get there.

Yeah.

Do you want to get there now?