It happens in the blink of an eye. One minute you’re being carded and the next you might as well be getting the senior discount. That’s Jessica’s story: “I was in a parking garage and the attendant was like, ‘Are you old enough to drive?’ Which was so flattering. And then I got a sunspot. When I googled it, I came across the phrase ‘As women start to age,’ and I was like, What? I’m 28. I’ve looked 16 since I was 16. In my head I thought I was going to look 20 for the rest of my life. And I’m realizing now that’s not the truth unless I get medical intervention.”
Jessica, 28, is a wrinkle worrier: a person in their 20s who is confronting their mortality in the form of crow’s feet—and does not like it, not one little bit. How did they go from acne gel to Botox so quickly? And how do they stop this terrible trajectory?
