‘I thought I was going to feel a million dollars. I thought I was going to be hopping into the bed with my husband’ – Kathryn Thomas on HRT, Botox and the pursuit of youth

‘I thought I was going to feel a million dollars. I thought I was going to be hopping into the bed with my husband’ – Kathryn Thomas on HRT, Botox and the pursuit of youth

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“Five years ago, I never would have admitted that I got Botox,” Kathryn Thomas says. She’s describing a conversation with her co-producer, out of which their new RTÉ documentary, Young Forever: The Death of Ageing? grew. “I was kind of saying, isn’t it interesting how I now go online and see all my television colleagues, friends, all actively saying that they have Botox. It just became that everyone was like, there’s nothing to hide, why are we embarrassed to talk about it? It was...