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She talked about how she was going to night school to learn to make a movie.
And then she did.
Rosana Rosales
(Its calledTake My Nose…
yo!, about comedians and plastic surgery, and has won film festival accolades.
you could watch it on Hulu or Amazon Prime.).
She whipped up copy that was as smart as it was funny.
Kron has lived 100 lives: I was only 17 when I went to Yale Drama School.
Its a graduate school but I guess I was lucky or precocious.
I was the youngest person there, says Kron, who studied costume design.
And they ignore me.
Whatever we did, they were shocked.
Lets say I was notorious.
(Say it out loud.)
My husband was volunteering on a hospital ship called the Hope ship in the summer of 1968.
We were very involved in raising money for the project, and we went to Sri Lanka.
That upended whatever I was doing, and I was in this terrible funk.
I said maybe this will cheer me up.
No one had any idea about how much you could say about lipstick.
I know that our readers arent interested inplastic surgerybecause theyre much too young, but I want to know.
And Ive already hired somebody to write it.
I said, Nobody who is 35 understands plastic surgery.
Let me do it.
Im the oldest person here.
Ive got three more appointments.
She read it and she said, Oh my god.
You didnt want this.
And I said, I think I need this.
And he said, Well, this is your caper, Joan.
Meaning hes not paying for it.
Meanwhile, the story came out and Wells started getting calls from readers.
She didnt realize anyone would be that interested in plastic surgery.
I want this beat, and I promise you, youll get some good stories.
And she said, Go to it.
She hopes to finish the film in early 2022.
Im very lucky that I still have my mind.
I have a bad back, but thats about it.
I think that women have a very hard time about aging.
There is definitely a bias against old people and its not old people, its an oldlook.
Why would we not expect people to take advantage of the science?
So be kind to people who have had work.
People like Jennifer Aniston, who we assume do a little at a time, they look great.
But if somebody waits until 60 like I did and changes, yes it is very evident.
Dont make fun of them.
Its the last thing that is politically ok, to make fun of someone who had plastic surgery.
And its very unfortunate because those people know that nobody complimented them for looking lousy.
But when people see you looking better they say, You look wonderful!
They want to look at you more.
They want to be in your presence more.
And that makes a circle because then you rise to the occasion and you feel younger.
Im talking to you, I dont feel older than you.
Its very strange to age, really.
Some days you wake up and you say, I really look like my age today.
But you dont accept it.
I am aging disgracefully and I am proud of it.
Well really, I dont need to be reminded of the 50 years of crying about my daughter.
I can just say her name and I can be reminded.
I dont need to look at the wrinkle.
Id likenotto look at the wrinkle.
For me, it is not a moral issue.
It is for other people and I say, good luck.
On the procedure she plans to have next:I called my doctor recently.
So I said, What am I going to do about these bags under my eyes?
And he says, Really theres nothing to do but surgery.
So Im going to have to do surgery.
On false prophets:You know, everybody talks about Helen Mirren.
But Helen Mirren is not that old shes much younger than I am!
Shes in her 70s.
I mean, really.
50 is just a great age 40, 50 they are all great ages.
I mean, women think that they are old when theyre 40 or 50.
You dont know what age is until youre 90!
And then discussed how they felt about it.
I always say, Well, call me when youre 60.
I would like to hear what you say when youre 60.
There is no such thing as ordinary.
There is no average.
Everybody ages in their own way.
My mother cared about her looks, so then I care about my looks.
Yes, Im 93.
And yes, indeed, I care!
And its not that Im going to look 50.
But Im going to look really good for my age.
In my last film [Take My Nose…
I covered the very beginning of plastic surgery.
Madame Noel, who was a dermatologist living in Paris, had a very big clientele.
She would work on people after World War I who were losing their jobs because they looked old.
They were in their 30s, and they were shop girls.
She did their surgery for nothing.
Some early plastic surgery was scary.
But you have to admire the women and realize how important the face is to some people.
You cant understand it until it happens to you.
When they wanted their breasts done or their arms were a little flabby, then it was ok!
Everything is ok if you need it, but not when I need it, right?
I think people are admiring smaller breasts.
I think theyre beginning to realize that oversized breasts are uncomfortable and unwieldy and over the top.
Literally over the top.
On stigma surrounding plastic surgery:There is a common idea that it has loosened up.
We had a party for investors and they did not invest.
Theres one in particular I remember who said, Thank you.
I think your reel is fabulous.
I think youre fabulous.
Then a woman who was teaching at NYU writes back, Very entertaining.
But I would never support a film about plastic surgery because I dont believe in it.
These are real world experiences that I had.
It’s true that more people are sharing, but for many people there is still a stigma."
On the plastic surgery equation:I think you tell half of what you had.
When I was atAllureI said, Whatever they say they had, double it.
We punish women for not meeting beauty standards, and reward women who don’t look their age.
On motivation:Maybe I saw my dad working very hard, doing paperwork at night at home.
I always wanted to have a career.
I would judge the boys I went out with.
They would always say things like, No wife of mine will ever work.'
And I would say, Well then I really cant see you next week.
It was a struggle because my mother was always saying, Dont be smarter than your husband.
And my husband was always saying, You run my home so beautifully.
Why dont you run my office?
And I would say, I dont want to run your office!
I want to have my own career!
So I was so grateful when I found writing that I could do at home.
That I could do any place.
In retrospect:Plastic surgery made me retain a younger look.
Like I am still the person I recognize.
And on whats next:I think the next big thing is going to be hair growth.
I really feel there is a tremendous need.
There are a lot of women suffering from thinning hair Im suffering from it.
I always used to say, Im no beauty, but Ive got great hair.
Hair is very important to women and men.
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