If you would have asked me when I was 25 if I would ever willingly inject botulism into my face, I would have laughed. Even as a beauty editor, I just couldn't see myself personally EVER wanting to go there.

Now I laugh at my twenty-something self -- about that and so very many other things I thought I knew as absolute truths back then. HA to the fact that I thought I was going to marry and live happily ever after with the emotionally unavailable guy I was hopelessly in love with during most of my twenties. We would be so divorced by now. HA to the fact that I thought my body was going to stay like that forever. And HA to the fact that I never thought I would want to do crazy cosmetic things to my face.

And really Botox isn't THAT crazy. I wouldn't be mad at a filler at this point. But a girl's gotta start somewhere. And if I was going to put botulism in my face, I was going to go to the best -- Dr. Fredric Brandt. Obviously, this is an amazing perk of my job and one that I unabashedly took advantage of...

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