“America the Beautiful” is a new documentary that examines America’s obsession with beauty and what the markers are for being ‘beautiful.’ The movie follows a girl, Garren Taylor, who was cast into the modeling world at 12 and was told by 15 that she was ‘fat.’

Clearly, Taylor is a long way from fat.

Obviously, Taylor’s first reaction was emotional – she was angry and she said she slipped into a slight eating disorder. Her next reaction was to seek support and speak out.

I have a friend who's had a facelift and also gets regular botox injections. But she's horrified at the thought of other people knowing. She'd never admit to people that she's had plastic surgery and botox. In fact once I was having lunch with her and her plastic surgeon happened to walk into the restaurant. She pretended that she didn't know him!

What do you all think about this? Shouldn't we be open about the work we've had done?

I didn't even know what to list this under. You may have seen a photo of Joan Van Ark as the ad hoc "poster child" for cosmetic surgery gone wild - and bad. It reminded me of the movie, "Millenium," with Cheryl Ladd, Kris Kristofferson and and wildly funny Katherine Hellmann, that takes place in the far future when you have to smoke to stay alive and real skin is a rarity.

Unfortunately, our society is so obsessed with what constitutes sexy, young and desirable that aging gracefully is a hard pill to swallow. Even Nicole Kidman was featured in the MSN story as a botox boo-boo.

A Florida plastic surgeon has written a book called "My Beautiful Mommy" the first known picture book aimed at 4-7 year-olds that tries to reassure kiddies about Mom going under the knife. Needless to say it has stirred up some controversy. Supporters say it adds to understanding about plastic surgery while opponents complain it undermines self esteem. Where do you stand?

As I approach 40 -- the new 20s -- when life begins -- so 'they' say -- my career, health, finances, and vision have all changed dramatically.

I have been proudly educating and serving the beauty, entertainment and medical industries since 1988 and working actively in the worlds of acting and modeling and in the stunt work business. I’ve also worked as a part-time personal fitness and nutrition guru and as a hair and makeup advocate in New York, Los Angeles and New Mexico. Well, this was all going to shift.

Have you had plastic surgery? Or a less invasive treatment? Were you happy with the results? And would you do it again?

Here's a great article about when beauty goes too far:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23167895/

The article examines how women are having fewer major plastic surgery procedures performed but are opting for less invasive treatments instead.