I spent my inheritance ON PLASTIC SURGERY

Cindy Jackson has taken decades off her 68 years

- CINDY JACKSON

The world responds more positively to beautiful people. I see it every day – and I knew it back in my 30s when I had the first of my 12 full-scale cosmetic surgery operations. I have always believed that if I can control how I look, then I can control how people feel about me. And I’m right – it has worked ridiculously well. I’m 68 but I look 25 years younger, minimum.

In the 1980s, I had the very first extreme surgical makeover. Not just a facelift or a nose job but a long list of procedures to refine and maximise what nature hadn’t given me. No one else was doing anything like that back then, but because the results were so good, people started coming to me for advice.

My career as an aesthetic consultant was launched, and today I work across the world with CEOs, aristocrats and A-list film stars. I’m often called ‘the woman who helps keep the beautiful people beautiful’ – the goal every time is to find the right surgeon to perform the right procedure.

The truth is that most people in Hollywood have had a lot more cosmetic surgery than me – and I’ve had a lot, around £70,000 worth. Some people call it vanity, a shallow fixation on superficial looks, but when it’s done right, I believe it can transform your life.

Today, you see, I live a charmed existence. I’m currently single, but for a man around my age I’m the perfect woman. I own my own home; I won’t have kids; I don’t have any baggage and I’ll never grow old. Why? Because I know what it’s like not to be attractive, too.

Beauty is power

I was a nerdy girl, a farmer’s daughter who was moved a year ahead in school. I was smart and that’s what I had that the pretty girls didn’t. But being brainy didn’t matter. It didn’t get me what I wanted, which was to fit in. I didn’t feel it was fair that because of my plain and unremarkable face and my hand-me-down clothes I was excluded at a time in my life when we all want to be liked.