This letter just forwarded to the editor of the Radio Times about the Leslie Ash's Lips-Gate affair:

As someone who lost part of my leg in a landmine accident while covering the War In Iraq for the BBC I felt compelled to write to say how disgusted I was by leslie Ash's comments in this week's Radio Times.

To compare her own failed botox procedure to an amputation is offensive in the extreme and her comment that "people don't laugh at Heather Mills because she lost a leg" beggars belief. Heather Mills -- and the thousands of other amputees in Britain -- had no choice over the enforced changes to their bodies….unlike Leslie Ash, who paid the price for her own vanity.

Amputation is not a fashion decision.