## Metadata - Author: [[Addie Page]] - Full Title: Confessions of a Formerly Gorgeous Woman - Category: #articles - URL: https://medium.com/p/8d29ff59f6af ## Highlights - Remember: beauty (the conventional sort, anyway) is short-lived. Each day, a little bit of mine evaporated. A little bit of my power, my influence, my identity, my worth—all in an inevitable, unstoppable decline. For all its advantages, I found myself wishing I’d never had it at all.