Can women afford to not botox?
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Can women afford to not Botox and why is this question urgent in 2026?
In today's episode, we are answering a very provocative question. You've got to be with us here. Can women afford to not Botox?
Vogue dubbed 2025 the year of plastic surgery transparency. And as more celebrities and people in the public eye have been open about the procedures they've got, it has made the conversation around surgery feel increasingly normalized, even aspirational.
So, of course, we wanted to do a deep dive on how much women are spending on their appearances, as well as the personal and professional pressures and the actual cost associated.
If you, like us, have been haunted by the question, to Botox or not Botox, and then felt guilty about whether that makes you a bad feminist, this conversation will resonate so hard.
This is The Curve Weekly, where we read the finance news so that you don't have to. I'm Sophie Hall-Wright, ex-producer of television, radio, and I was a bit of a financial mess, so we started this podcast so that me and lots of others can understand the economy and investing.
And my name is Emma-Louise Boynton. I am a writer, author and broadcaster. And I'm standing in for Vic, who is building the Curve Investment, newly announced. So I'll be filling in for her to discuss today's most pressing financial news.
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I mean, I totally get that because I think it feels so... I mean, it's so personal because it's something that as soon as you're 30, and I'm sure 20-year-olds too, it's so top of mind. I feel like I said this to you recently, I think... In your 30s, there are two existential questions which seem to just hang over you daily. Whether to be a mother and to Botox or not to Botox. These are the two questions that I feel like I cannot move without confronting. Whether that's because of the litany of baby announcements that I continually get on my social media feeds and my WhatsApps. and then Botox I feel like you know when you're always trying when you're reading stuff online and you're always trying to work out whether it's written by Chachi Mateen it's always quite obvious but then there's like no that's because you're a journalist I don't think lots of people are doing oh I'm definitely I don't know a lot of my friends who like really are not a lot of authors
True. I'm friends with a lot of writers and I'm in a total bubble. Okay, so we're always like... I just think you can so easily tell when stuff is written by ChatGPT. There's like so many giveaways. But I feel like I'm kind of... Everything I'm reading now, I'm reading through a lens of like, was this written by AI or by a human? In the same way, when I'm looking at people's faces now, I'm looking and being like, have you Botox or have you not Botox?
Because it's like little, small giveaways. But this is also coming from someone that hasn't Botox. So we're going to get to that in a second. Well, I think... I haven't. Wait, pause. We have to pause this conversation because before we get into this, we have to talk about are you in the red or are you in the green this week? Have you had a good financial week or a bad financial week?
Listen, this is my second episode on the curve. I haven't been ingratiated into the world of financial education yet. I'm at the beginning of my journey. So I feel like this is a humiliation ritual, which is going to be the whole point of doing more work with the curve is to educate myself around finances.
So every time you ask me this, I'm going to give you the same answer.
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