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Face One Square Foot of Skin

Justine Bateman

Writer/director/producer Justine Bateman examines the aggressive ways that society reacts to the aging of women’s faces. “In her superb new book,

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The Megyn Kelly Show

It explored the societal pressure on women, particularly in Hollywood, to maintain a youthful appearance and how this pressure was rooted in irrational fears and vestigial evolutionary thoughts.

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And it's really aging and how much pressure there is not to do it.

— Episode: Justine Bateman on Parenting in the Age...

Episode: Justine Bateman on Parenting in the Age of Instagr...

It explored the societal pressure on women, particularly in Hollywood, to maintain a youthful appearance and how this pressure was rooted in irrational fears and vestigial evolutionary thoughts.

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And it's really aging and how much pressure there is not to do it.

The whole reason that that, you know, I wrote this second book was because of that, you know, that one chapter in the first book, Fame, where, you know, all the attacks I've gotten,

And then I thought, well, why do we even think that way about women's older faces? So that's where the second book came from.

I love it at face one square foot of skin and about aging.

And it's such a, such a different sadly perspective.

Chasing Life

It explores the societal views on women's aging and the anger it evokes, incorporating personal experiences and interviews with various women into short stories.

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The book of Face is about women's faces getting older and why that makes people angry.

— Episode: Justine Bateman on Why She Won’t Try To...

Episode: Justine Bateman on Why She Won’t Try To Look Young...

It explores the societal views on women's aging and the anger it evokes, incorporating personal experiences and interviews with various women into short stories.

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The book of Face is about women's faces getting older and why that makes people angry.

And it's based on my experiences and feelings about it. And then those of about 20 or so people I interviewed, mostly women.

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