Please Don’t Let Me Be Like Madonna

Sarah DeVries
6 min readJun 11, 2019
Photo by Jose Martinez on Unsplash

I’ve got a great body. Well, great-ish.

Of course I’ve got the normal complaints of a woman my age (37) who’s had a baby: some loose skin, cellulite that’s stuck around since my teens and that I should really be used to by now, premature wrinkles from too many late nights and probably not enough expensive skin creams. But for the most part, my “flaws” are easily hidden and I have a feminine, enviable…

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Sarah DeVries

Rabble-rouser. Praying atheist. US writer and translator in Mexico. Enthusiastic decorator and muralist. sdevrieswritingandtranslating.com