As I was sitting amongst a group of women the other day, we chatted of relevant topics such as our current education system, social (in) security, changes in our insurance policies, the going’s on of our grown kids and\u2026\u00a0Botox. The subject of\u00a0Botox\u00a0somehow always seems to slip into conversations that include women both here and abroad. I highly doubt men talk of this subject, as those who indulge are most likely ‘closet injectors’.<\/p>\n
So, discussions ensued as to the benefits of using\u00a0Botox\u00a0to smooth out those ever increasing\u00a0epidermoid\u00a0flaps and folds. Although tentative on broaching my personal experience with said topic, I would have been remiss not to share my\u00a0Botox\u00a0malady.<\/p>\n
I have worked on-camera as a spokesperson and actress for several years and the advent of\u00a0Botox\u00a0was for me an opportunity to spend several more years as a liar\u2026regarding my age of course.<\/p>\n
I injected a little here a little there, playing blissfully with this new miracle of botulism like I was six again playing with my new Chatty Kathy at Christmas. I learned you could inject the\u00a0Botox\u00a0just above your upper lip giving it a more plump appearance. So to\u00a0gain a more youthful\u00a0pillowy\u00a0mouth, I injected away. ‘Hoy\u00a0Matey,\u00a0thar\u00a0she blows’ I expressed with wild abandon as within 7 to 10 days my upper lip did indeed swell to a more youthful and zestful appearance.<\/p>\n
The only drawback I had not anticipated was that the muscles in the top of the mouth would be frozen and as I stood facing the camera ready to shoot a commercial, I was horrified when I could not form the letters m, b or p. My first line was, “Hi, Jan\u00a0B<\/strong><\/em>rehm<\/strong> <\/em>here with <\/strong>M<\/strong><\/em>ason\u00a0M<\/strong><\/em>otors\u00a0(name changed)\u00a0celeb<\/strong><\/em>rating this <\/strong>m<\/strong><\/em>agical\u00a0tim<\/strong><\/em>e of year”. \u00a0What I was able to dribble out was, “Hi, Jan reh here with\u00a0ason\u00a0otors,\u00a0celerating\u00a0this\u00a0agical\u00a0ti of year.” The director at first thought I was joking but his ‘ha ha’ quickly\u00a0dissipated\u00a0into raw frustration as camera take after camera take, I struggled to make my lips meet. I did\u00a0finagle\u00a0a way to move my lower lip up to meet the upper one, an accomplishment of which I was most pleased but unfortunately gave me the appearance of\u00a0gurning.<\/p>\n Well, you think I would have learned, but a few weeks ago in preparing to shoot another commercial for a new dealership, I thought there would be no harm in\u00a0Botoxing\u00a0the bottom lip… again in attempts to regain a youthful lip-luster. I was fully aware that my bottom lip might be a bit paralyzed but found only the letters; f and v might be a bit strained. To my horror as I had not anticipated what the script might possibly say, I found my last line to be, \u00a0“Come <\/strong>v<\/strong><\/em>isit\u00a0us. We’re just off<\/strong><\/em> <\/strong>the I\u00a05<\/strong><\/em> <\/strong>f<\/strong><\/em>reeway in\u00a0F<\/strong><\/em>if<\/strong><\/em>e.” and of course what my facial\u00a0orifice\u00a0formed was, “Come\u00a0isit\u00a0us. We’re just o the I i\u00a0eeway\u00a0in i.”<\/p>\n I’m gonna cool it on the\u00a0Botoxing\u00a0for a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As I was sitting amongst a group of women the other day, we chatted of relevant topics such as our current education system, social (in) security, changes in our insurance policies, the going’s on of our grown kids and\u2026\u00a0Botox. The subject of\u00a0Botox\u00a0somehow always seems to slip into conversations that include women both here and abroad. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mid-life-madness","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":496,"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions\/496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}