For as long as I can remember, I?ve carried a little pad of fat underneath my chin. It was there when I was a teen, it was there when I was in the best shape of my life at 22, and it?s here now, quite a few years later. What?s more, a recent family dinner showed that I was in fine company: Regardless of age or fitness level, everyone at that long AF table? from a 16 year-old who practices Tai Kwando up to a 76-year old Grandma?sported the same chin chub. Thanks, genetics!
For me, having this silly little feature means super strategic poses for selfies and the unsettling fact that no matter how hard I worked at getting into shape (and trust, a writer?s life can always use more activity), my chin would likely look the same.
The talented and ridiculously beautiful Chloë Grace Moretz knows what I?m talking about. The actress told Elle this summer that at the age of 16 she wanted the same fat pad under her chin gone, too. Moretz?s mom vetoed the idea, leaving the actress to “find a lot of power within my insecurities. They’re what make me who I am now.? Me, on the other hand" I?m not so enlightened. Maybe it?s because I have plenty of other insecurities from which to draw power; I still want my pudgy fat pad to get got. So I visited Dr. Alexander Rivkin, a celebrity cosmetic surgeon based in Los Angeles?s tony Brentwood to see if I could get it taken out?and quickly learned that it doesn?t exactly work that way. MORE: Can This Radiofrequency Laser Give You P...