Scary Night

What an evening. After getting caught up on The Wire, my wife suckered me into a 30 minute Internet search into the above pictured woman, Ms. Jocelyn Wildenstein. Even scarier than her face, on which she has spent over $4 million in cosmetic surgery in her lifetime, is the story of why she actually began to carve her once very pretty face. This doesn't seem to be a story of a woman who had too much cosmetic surgery, because her first time under the knife pretty much made her look this bad. That's because after walking in on her billionaire husband in bed with a Russian model, she had the ambitious plan (some might call it insane, but they just lack vision) of winning her husband's love back. How you ask? By transforming her face into the look of a feline. No joke. She believed that since her husband loved big game lions and big cats, that if she looked like one, he would love her again. Talk about a tight syllogism. It is reported that when he first saw her post-op, he screamed.

Ultimately, the story is just one more example of how ruinous adultery and idolatry is. They transform us into people we can barely recognize. The new creation will put all this straight, but it's painful to live in the context of an incomplete world where suffering and sadness abounds.