Saying farewell to Helen Gurley Brown, creator of the Cosmo girl

Buried deep in The New York Times' lengthy and witty obituary of former Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown, who died on Monday, is the fact that Brown had “much restoration work done” over the years, including “a nose job, breast augmentation, face-lifts, eye lifts and injections of silicone and fat into her face to keep wrinkles at bay, among other procedures.” That explains the last sentence in the obit’s "lede," or first paragraph:

Helen Gurley Brown, who as the author of Sex and the Single Girl shocked early-1960s America with the news that unmarried women not only had sex but also thoroughly enjoyed it — and who as the editor of Cosmopolitan magazine spent the next three decades telling those women precisely how to enjoy it even more — died on Monday in Manhattan. She was 90, though parts of her were considerably younger.