Screaming on the Inside: My Adventures With Botox

About a year ago, I got botulinum toxin injected into my face for the first time. As a woman of the aughts, this seemed almost like an inevitability, especially once I moved to Los Angeles, the land of face modification and cheap med spas. Here, you can walk into a clinic and get Botox on demand for around $10 a unit,…
'What Do You Mean, It Jammed': A Harrowing Journey to IUD City
On Monday evening at about 5:20 I was wearing a cream-colored sweater and nothing else, lying back on a medical table with my feet in stirrups, breathing like my 80-pound dog when she's having a stress dream. Between my legs was a young and pretty OB/GYN with a short blonde ponytail and an air of capable kindness.…
I Pulled a Black Friday All-Nighter & Lived to Tell the Tale (Barely)
It's Thanksgiving evening, roughly 7:30 p.m. "Are you sure you don't want to bail?" my mother-in-law asks, with barely concealed concern, as we approach the exit for the Secaucus, New Jersey Walmart. I promise I'll text updates and swear that if something goes hideously awry and I'm marooned in a sea of big-box…
Three Lazy Shitbags Die on a SoulCycle Bike for Wendy Williams
This week, three Jezebel employees were invited to join Wendy Williams, the talk show host and media personality, in a special intimate session of SoulCycle, despite none of said employees having worked out in the past two months to a year. Wendy's prospect was to promote her debut as this year's Soul Train Awards…
Ur-In-Therapy: My Quest to Cure My Cystic Acne With My Own Pee
What wouldn't a woman of a certain age do to preserve her dewy youth? Take it from this burgeoning crone: There may be good reason Chelsea Handler took that spray of piss in the face from Jason Biggs like a champ, and it may have more to do with vanity than good sportsmanship.


