There Is Nothing Some Women (And Men) Won’t Do For Vanity.

There’s a buzzy new diva in the world of cosmetic injectables and she’s quick, easy to recover from … and came from a dead body. Indeed, people are injecting themselves with fat from corpses in order to pump up their physiques, and it’s catching on more than you would think.

Oh, I hold no illusions about what some women (and men!) will put on or in their bodies for vanity’s sake. Especially now we are in 2026 and have the modern cult of the ‘influencer’ to contend with…

But where on earth are they getting this stuff? 

When individuals donate their organs, tissue banks often collect abdominal fat cells, too. Companies then purchase that fat from the tissue banks and process it for cosmetic use.

... the process has fueled longstanding concerns about whether donors know how their remains will be used.

The answer is ‘No, they don’t and what’s more, they don’t have a say in it either'. 

The aesthetics of capitalism play a big role in why we’ll likely see more and more people seeking out this procedure.

Oh, of course! 

The downtime is reportedly minimal, and many are opting for it because that means they don’t lose any productivity hours. Business Insider spoke to plastic surgeons who have completed a combined 75 procedures with alloClae since it became available early last year, and they described “wealthy executives and corporate types, booking 6am visits so they could make it to work by 7”, and using the filler to look better in their work clothes.

Boo! Hiss!  

Nobody wants to get old, and they damn sure don’t want to look it. Anti-ageing is a billion-dollar business and the people seeking cosmetic procedures are skewing younger and younger.

And yet, it's all for nothing. Because they are inevitably aging no matter what they do... 

Celebrity Witterings

Presenter and campaigner Katie Piper has told an audience at the Hay Festival in Wales that "ageing can be compared to a bereavement."

why would anyone say anything so daft? 

Piper's latest book, which is published on Friday, is titled Still Beautiful: On Age, Beauty and Owning Your Space.

oh, say no more! 

The 41-year-old said: "Women age out of the male gaze. I was ripped from the male gaze at 24. I didn't just become invisible. I became a target for people saying derogatory things."

Derogatory things like ‘You’re talking bollocks, love’ perhaps? 

Piper, who is also a presenter on the BBC programme Songs of Praise and ITV's Loose Women. said she had recently been asked if writers minded if they mentioned her age. "It was shocking, but not surprising. This was because I had been reminded at such a young age the currency and the power a woman holds when she is considered either beautiful or young, and now here I was going through the second phase of youth slipping away and feeling, once again, society's judgement and the label that they were going to put on to me."

It’s a familiar refrain. Because we are all getting older - some of us with dignity and acceptance, some of us...clearly not!

She said she felt positive about getting older. "I'm going to be 42 in October. I'm still incredibly young to many, and old and past it to some. You realise, 'I know who I am.' I have a strong sense of self and identity. This is the heyday. This is the time of my life. So I can only imagine what's on [for the] 50s and 60s and the decades beyond. I feel excited by that second chapter."

She said if she had to give one message to her younger self, it would be: "If you've ever felt less than... you've hated yourself or felt ashamed, it was never you. It was society, consumerism and capitalism. It was beneficial to someone, somewhere, to hold you down.

Oh, boy, capitalism is forever the big bogeyman in some people’s eyes, even as they earn a nice living from it, isn’t it?