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A Top Dermatologist and Psychiatrist on Aging Skin, Breakouts—and the Most Natural Look

goop beauty editors Jean Godfrey-June and Megan O’Neill love to ask—and answer—questions. In their podcast, The Beauty Closet, they’re doing both. To familiarize you with each week’s guest, we came up with a goop beauty (and life) questionnaire.

THIS WEEK WE’RE TALKING TO:

Amy Wechsler, MD, dermatologist and psychiatrist

It’s hard to believe that New York City dermatologist and psychiatrist Amy Wechsler ever suffered from breakouts, and it’s even harder to believe that she’s got a daughter in college: Her skin has that soft, fresh quality usually associated with twentysomethings, not their moms. Yet Wechsler, who’s definitely her own best advertisement, bears no outward signs of dermatological intervention. “Oh, there are interventions!” she insisted when she blew into goop’s Beauty Closet podcast studio, her hair wet around the edges from the storm outside. She’s famous for her all-but-imperceptible touch, her multipronged approach (she’ll attack a problem like a sagging jawline with a combination of fat freezing, laser tightening, and injectables), and her incredibly soothing bedside manner. We asked Wechsler everything about aging skin, acne-prone skin, procedures, lasers, fat freezing, injectables, why less is often more, and why the way our skin looks affects us so profoundly. Her answers are fascinating—you won’t be able to stop listening.

We got in even more questions with our goop beauty questionnaire, and she gave us even more amazing-skin advice in the bargain.