Melissa Gilbert states that after the divorce, she used Botox to “freeze everything in place.”

Melissa Gilbert tells everything in her new memoirs about the midlife crisis she experienced after her divorce from fellow actor Bruce Boxleitner.

An excerpt from a book Return to Prairie: Home rebuilt, life rediscovered, Former “Little House on the Prairie” star is frank about the decisions she made at that time of her life. This includes a bit of aesthetics.

“I bought a Mustang convertible, prompted by an improper young French man who changed the botox, filler, and hair color and started dating,” said a former Screen Actors Guild president in a memoir. I am writing. Yahoo! Life..

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Her goal was to regain the sense of “freedom” she had remembered since she was young.

“I reacted like many women I met. I tried to freeze everything in place,” she explained, “a league of completely different pressures to be a single woman in her 40s in Los Angeles. And being an actress I’m looking for a job in an industry that is crazy about youth ratchets. “

It wasn’t until she met her current husband, actor, and director Timothy Busfield that she moved from Los Angeles to Michigan that she gained a perspective that Los Angeles lacked.

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“I can’t move my forehead — and that’s not okay,” she recalled. “I want to move more in the future. I want to go where it is possible.”

Return to Prairie: Home rebuilt and life rediscovered Currently on sale.

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