Foreword by Dr. Michael Yaremchuk of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
Chasing Beauty is the story of how and why an ordinary young woman surgically rearranged her entire face before age thirty-six.
Author Jamieson Dale developed into a lonely girl with a voluptuous figure but a plain face. Attention to image both inside and outside of home suggested to Jamieson that her attractive body made of her an object.
Through cosmetic surgery, Jamieson wanted a beautiful face to make herself into a person: one worthy of love, and of survival. Jamieson wanted—fifteen different times—to believe in the magic implied in a cosmetic surgical transformation. She failed—fifteen different times—to find it; but in the end found a kind husband and a shaky peace with herself as an aging woman.
