I’m very serious about my face. I work in beauty, and I’m surrounded by it. And as a founder and esthetician with my own skin-care line, Sofie Pavitt Face , I’m also a front-facing person. My skin is important to me but so is transparency. I was never against getting a neck-lift or some type of lifting procedure, but I never would have predicted that I would do it at just 41 years old.

I am accepting that I’m getting older: We’re all aging; it’s a privilege. But after having two children, I had extensive weight gain and loss in a short time, I had a lot of laxity — loose and sagging — in the lower half of my face, and my eyelids were crêpey. I envy people who love pregnancy. I had my first baby at 35 and I gained 80 pounds. I lost most of the weight, and then I got pregnant again when

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