Jocelyn Wildenstein’s was the face that launched a thousand trout pouts

For decades, Jocelyn Wildenstein – who has died, aged 84 disputed the obvious fact of her facial work. As recently as last August, she told a tabloid: “I haven’t had plastic surgery – I’m scared of what can happen and I don’t like to have something heavy.” A statement carrying all the conviction of a small child protesting they haven’t eaten any chocolate when their hands and mouth are covered with brown smears. In fact, the Overton window for acceptable notions of “beauty” has moved so far that people regularly applaud Nicole Kidman for looking youthful and glamorous when her forehead hasn’t creased for 20 years. Meanwhile, for women my age who haven’t had “tweakments”, it’s an ever-greater battle of will to feel attractive for your age in a sea of Botox and products designed to puff-out every facial trough. My own favoured antidote to the Peter Pans of social media is to follow genuine model Paulina Porizkova, grey-haired and radiantly beautiful at 59, with the audacity to display wrinkles and claim “I’m the best I’ve ever been”.