About THE BOOK & AUTHOR:

Confronting the wrinkles and gray hair
—LA Times
From hair-color treatments to Botox to surgical "mommy makeovers," it seems there is no limit to the ways women can try to hold on to their fading youth. But are these healthy self-improvements or simply vain attempts to look younger?

Appreciating Your Value as You Age
—NYTimes
Published: March 17, 2010
The pursuit of beauty increases anxiety as women age; two doctors and former models have a book to suggest answers.

About-Face - How to View Beauty and Aging
—Oprah.com
Authors Dr. Jill Muir-Sukenick and Dr. Vivian Diller discuss how women perceive themselves as they age and why they should change their focus.

Face It: 6 Steps to Help a Women Deal with Aging
—beliefnet.com

Inside Out Approach to Beauty
—ThirdAge.com
An ex-model turned psychotherapist looks at beauty from two very different vantage points to offer advice for midlife women.


Do You Have a Healthy Percepton of Beauty?
—Best of You Today

Aging and Beauty
—Litchfield County Times
Wherever you’re reading this story, there is an elephant in the room, one that prompts Dr. Vivian Diller, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist in New York City who owns a home in Goshen, to declare, “We need to have a conversation about it.”

Raquel Welch Sparks Discussion on Aging Naturally
—impowerage.com


Foreign Publications

À L’AUTEL DE LA TÉLÉRÉALITÉ
—ELLE QUÉBEC

Interview in Grazia Magazine

¿Está la belleza en los ojos de quien la mira o de quien es visto?
—confesionesdesofia.com

Tips de belleza para el cuerpo y para el alma
—confesionesdesofia.com

El reto de envejecer en un mundo narcisista
—confesionesdesofia.com
Envejecer nunca ha sido un paseo por el parque, pero hacerlo en el mundo de ahora es un reto para el que pocos están preparados. Lo que me recuerda dos artículos que han causado revuelo. Aunque a primera vista parezca que no están relacionados creo que hay una relación que explica la atención que han obtenido.


FASHION/COSMETICS:

Cosmetics Drugs Gone Too Far: Is Anything Still Real?
—The Huffington Post

Psychological Risks of Cosmetic Surgery
—Robert Kotler, MD, FACS, WebMD.com

Honesty in Beauty: Should You Tell Your Friend Her Lipstick Looks Bad?
—Allure

"Good Work": Can Cosmetic Procedures Ever Be Done for the Right Reasons?
—vibrantnation.com

The latest treatment for older women: the hand lift
—The Times (London)

Plastic Surgery Backlash
—StyleGoesStrong.com

Confessions of a Tan-aholic
—SELF.com

Growing Too “Fonda” Plastic Surgery
—chicgalleria.com

My First Lipstick Red Bag
—ThirdAge.com
I am fifty-six years old and just came home after buying my very first red handbag. I took it out of the shopping bag and felt the soft, rich leather in my hands.

Brow Lift and Forehead Lift Cosmetic Surgery
—ThirdAge.com
Creams, dermabrasion, peels, injections: if you are looking to reduce the appearance of wrinkles on your face, there is a world of options at your fingertips. More and more women between the ages of 40 and 70 are turning to brow lifts to reduce wrinkles and lines on the forehead and around the eyes.

Has She or Hasn't She?
—wowwowwow.com
A model-turned-psychotherapist ponders how different generations take on aging gracefully.

EXTREME PLASTIC SURGERY
—BeautyUndercover.com

“Face It” Guide Addresses Psychological Issues Behind Cosmetic Surgery
—CosmeticSurgeryToday

BEAUTY:

Do You Know How Attractive You Are?
—ThatsFit.com (AOL)
Are you clued out about just how attractive you are?

Kate Winslet Doesn't Want You To Get Plastic Surgery
—mamamia.com
News about the formation of an Anti-Cosmetic Surgery League probably made most women of a certain age smile — at least those whose un-botoxed faces still allowed them that natural expression.

8 Ways to Feel Beautiful from the Inside Out
—Oprah.com
I have learned a lot about what makes women feel attractive as they age. And by that I don't mean which over-the-counter remedy works best or how to get just the right nip or tuck that leads to looking like a model on a magazine cover.

Beauty for Life: 6 Steps to Accepting Aging
—Oprah.com
Can anything really help you enjoy your aging appearance? To some, the question is an oxymoron. But take a moment to read the psychological steps described below to see if they change how you think and feel about beauty as you age.

The Uh-Oh moment: That thunderbolt when you realise that face in the mirror is yours
—Daily Mail

Boost Your Beauty Self-Esteem
—Self.com
Assess what you've got. Make a list of six qualities you like about yourself—half should be physical features—then rank them by what you deem the most appealing.

What's Your Beauty Self-Esteem?
—Self.com
Rate yourself with SELF's cool confidence-assessing tool, created with Vivian Diller, Ph.D., and Jill Muir-Sukenick, Ph.D.

Embrace Your Face
—Self.com
Beauty really does come from within: Experts agree that your brain has a greater impact on how you feel about your looks than any supposed flaws...

Can I Feel Pretty While I Work Hard for My Money?
—Oprah.com

Excerpt: Six Steps To Resolving The Beauty And Aging Paradox
—Forbes.com
An excerpt from ''Face It,'' by models-turned-psychotherapists Vivian Diller, Ph.D., and Jill Muir-Sukenick, Ph.D.

Vivian Diller, Ph.D.: Four Tips to Feel Beautiful at Any Age
—latimesdaily.com

Why Some Women Are Afraid to Cut Their Hair
—www.allure.com
"Some women view their hair as an aspect of their identity," explained Diller. "It's very internal, and women who let it grow to this extreme length have become attached to it over a long period of time. Some women view hair as the gestalt of their look and parallel it with losing their teeth or an arm."

Give Your Beauty Self-Esteem a Boost
—youbeauty.com
Try these tips to look and feel more attractive in the new year. Get ready to open the doorway to a more beautiful you!

AGING:

Reinventing Yourself at Midlife
—The Huffington Post
When Al and Tipper Gore announced their separation after 40 years of marriage, the blogosphere was filled with emotions, ranging from alarm...

Aging and feeling beautiful: Dr. Diller says woman can experience both
—cltampa.com
Showbiz beauty expert Vivian Diller has been seen on several talk shows sharing her inspirational words and practical how-to's on aging with beauty and confidence...

Midlife: What Goes Down Must Come Up
—motheringinthemiddle.com
When Obama turned 50 in August, warring political parties and world leaders paused to congratulate him.

Baby boomers face parenting that stretches on and on …
—miamiherald.com
Baby boomers are adding a twist to the old saw that parenting is a 24-hour job...

Midlife Crisis: A Misleading Myth or A Reality in Search of a New Name?
—motheringinthemiddle.com
Although originally used by psychologists to describe a transitional stage in adult development, today the midlife crisis is often associated with the guy in his 40s who finds a young girlfriend and runs off in his new sports car; or the woman, about the same age, who reinvents herself, buys a new wardrobe...

The Slippery Slope of "Anti-Aging"
—motheringinthemiddle.com
There are people who look great for their age — George Clooney, Annette Bening and Betty White are a couple of celebs that come to mind.

Happy Women Embrace Aging: How to Accept Your Wrinkles
—That'sFit.com
Are you having a tough time dealing with getting older? You're not alone -- and, according to Dr. Vivian Diller, you don't have to feel bad about caring that your eyelids are starting to droop.

How to truly enjoy your age
—sheknows.com
Unquestionably, the day you look in the mirror and see a crop of wrinkles staring back at you can be devastating for your morale. Although those lines of time should signal a life of joyful moments and gained wisdom, women can't help but see them as loss of value and beauty.

Beauty, Aging And Self-Confidence
—Forbes.com
As we leave our 30s and enter our 40s and beyond, many women struggle with both the physical and emotional issues of getting older.

Do Men Look Better In Gray?
—healyourlife.com
Let’s face it: men have it easier. They can become doting dads at 70 and grow beards to cover their sagging skin. Clearly—and perhaps unfairly—the self-esteem of boys is tied more to what they do and how they perform than how they look.

Catch 55: The Beauty Dilemma Facing Modern Women
—wowowow.com
A model-turned-psychotherapist on a universal midlife quandary.

Do Looks Matter?
—healyourlife.com
When beauty queens turn gray.

Beauty and the Boss
—Forbes.com
Once you equate beauty with youth--and both with professional value--you're fighting a losing battle.

Ageing Well
—www.yours.co.uk

A former model on anti-aging
—vibrantnation.com