, was published in 2021 and focuses specifically on society's reaction to the natural aging of women's faces through short stories.that the idea for the book initially came about thanks to Google's autocomplete search feature. When Bateman went to search for herself a few years ago, the site suggested the term,"Justine Bateman looks old."
"That messed with my head more deeply than I imagined it could, and for a longer period of time than I was comfortable with," she explained."But once I processed that and got to my root fears underneath, I started thinking, there's a completely disturbing leap we've made from the unusual event of someone getting a full face lift in the '70s to 'These are all things you should do, it's just a matter of when.