In response to an article about ‘looksmaxxing’, one reader is worried that their young son wants to go to the gym and get muscular. Plus Julie Taylor on the long-term damage of cosmetic procedures
It’s normal to have concerns about your children playing on your mind. Over time, many dissipate or are superseded, but occasionally they crystallise into a deep-seated fear, and that’s what happened to me on reading your article on young men “looksmaxxing” (From bone smashing to chin extensions: how ‘looksmaxxing’ is reshaping young men’s faces, 15 February).
For some time, my 13-year-old son had been badgering me to buy him weights and to join the gym. I said that children his age were too young to lift weights as their bodies were still growing. Recently, a friend told me she had been able to add her 12-year-old son to her membership. I’ve been wanting to get back into the gym and, thinking it would get him off his phone, I signed up both of us.
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