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No woman deserves £6m for a botched nip and tuck

There can’t be many middle-aged women who haven’t stared into the bathroom mirror while experimentally pulling back the skin around their temples and jawline.

For a few seconds, your face looks the way you still think it should, before it began to sag and wrinkle and droop.

Suddenly you recognise yourself again: this is how you should look, how you used to look — younger, healthier, livelier. Perhaps a little nip and tuck might not be such a bad idea, you think. 

The truth is that all surgery carries a risk — but when the operation is for your health, the benefits usually outweigh that risk. That wasn’t the case where Penny Johnson was concerned. Indeed, like most of us, she didn’t actually need cosmetic surgery.

Of course, that doesn’t stop us fantasising about it. Resisting the siren call of the surgeon’s knife is difficult. All around us are women whose smooth faces and perfectly toned bodies defy age and gravity. 

Many of them don’t admit what they’ve had done — it took me years to realise an acquaintance I thought was looking exuberantly healthy had actually had a facelift — and so the rest of us are left feeling inadequate and imperfect.

But why should we risk our health for the sake of our vanity? After all, there’s so much you can do for much less money and no risk at all. Grey hair is easily eliminated, and there are dozens of gadgets and gels for stimulating the skin and muscles on your face. You can also change your make-up, start exercising and buy stylish new clothes.

These were all options Penny Johnson could easily have afforded.

It takes determination and application to make the best of what you’ve got — and what makes her story particularly upsetting is that she’d demonstrated these qualities throughout her life.

From humble beginnings — she grew up in a small Welsh mining village and left school with five O-levels and an ambition to become a hairdresser — she rose to run a hugely successful business. 

She coped with a divorce and the fact that the first of her three children was born with special needs, went on to remarry and forged an enviable lifestyle. By 2003, the IT company she and her  second husband had set up was turning over more than £3 million and making a profit of nearly £900,000.

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