What would you look like left to nature/200 years ago.

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Lockdown boredom musings....

Without medical/cosmetic interference what would you now look like?
I'm nearly 40.

I had dental treatment for 4 missing teeth so would have huge gaps in my front teeth.
I've terrible eyesight so without contacts/glasses I'd walk around with a permanent squint and I'd imagine terrible crows feet.
My hair is an uninspiring brown, wouldn't look too different but wouldn't have my highlights.
Body hair..... good god youd be able to plait it. Same with eyebrows. and mostache
I've had a bit of botox so more wrinkly.
I have a skin condition which causes abscesses so without surgical treatment I'd have huge boils/abscesses all down my thighs.
Oh - had a tooth abscess as well so possibly might have lost my teeth by now.
Wouldn't have ears pierced.

So toothless, boily, hairy and squinty! Lush!

I've always been adamant I'd only time travel on the guarantee I'd get to be rich, which of course none of my ancestors were!

Wouldn't have had my boobs done so tits at my knees and no fake tan so I expect I'd look like a sort of melted Morticia Addams.

I'd be alright health wise I think as never really had much medical treatment and as one consultant put it, I was made for having babies, although at child 8 onwards I imagine enthusiasm would be low.

I would have survived the births of my older children but the last one would have killed me at 34. Only one DC would have made it to adulthood.

I'd have a beard, wonky teeth and injuries caused by being unable to see much. My ancestors were labourers so no glasses for me.

I would have been doing really well until I reached my 30’s when I would have probably died giving birth

Ooh, this is interesting. I suppose it all depends how fundamentally you want to change things.

General beauty stuff - I'd be fairly similar. Squinty or nearly blind because I'm short sighted and snaggle toothed because no orthodontics.

But then if you change things more fundamentally, I probably wouldn't be snaggle toothed because they'd all have fallen out 15 years ago. And I'd probably be pockmarked from a disease I've been inoculated against. Oh and at least 6 inches shorter from being much less nourished. Thinner, obviously, but with no waist because of all the children.

And I'd be limping and suffering pain or arthritis in my wrists because of old and badly set breaks.

And of course I still can't rule dead out

Putting aside potential death by childbirth I'd probably have less teeth and either be going blind with cataracts or have gone blind due to cataract surgery (with needle to push it to one side - eeek) which might have been successful but probably closely followed by infection.

Well I'd be bloody blind as I am minus 10 which is clinically blind with inward teeth and a frizzy mess of hair as I don't think they had anti-frizz...though I'd have discovered coconut oil much sooner.

I'd also be dead in 10 years as I have a rare medical condition that they only discovered a drug for 9 years ago. HOORAY for Science.

I'd look the same or be dead. I don't dye my hair or do much cosmetically. I did have wisdom teeth removed so maybe a more crowded mouth.

I've had 2 emergency c sections so may or may not have survived childbirth.

I might not have survived birth though as I was 4lb 4oz and needed an incubator.

I'm 59. I would be exactly the same except presumably dirtier and smellier...

I would have died at 12 100%, modern medicine is only reason I made 13.

If I avoiding dying lots of gray, pale ,crow's feet , hairy. Did women live to 40 200 years ago?

I wouldn't have made it past early childhood, many, many utis, a few of which resulted in sepsis. I probably wouldn't have even made it to three.

Definite gaps in teeth, but at almost 62 my hair is still more black than grey. However, I have no body hair! Oh and I’d be going blind due to cataracts!

I’m extremely short sighted so probably stumbling around, like a pp, I’m working class, so unlikely to be able to afford glasses.

My extremely curly hair needs a ton of product or it just afros up. It would probably need to be tied down/plaited on a constant.

I’d have half a front tooth following an accident, snapped off diagonally. My teeth would stick put massively due to thumb sucking (£2K of braces)

I’d also be dead following an accident involving losing part of my leg, or it would have been amputated, or I’d get a raging infection which would kill me.

Of by some miracle I survived the numerous asthma attacks, infections, childbirth etc that could all have very easily finished me off...

I would have very wonky eyes as had squint surgery as a child

Would have awful acne from pregnancy acne.

Would probably have lots and lots of children (super fertile, both myself and ds were conceived on the pill)

Much slimmer due to no junk food or hormonal contraception.

Ashy dry skin and ragged nails due to anaemia (from unmanaged endometriosis) and eczema

My hair would also probably not be as thick and shiny due to aforementioned anaemia

I don't wear make-up much, don't do anything to my eyebrows and only shave in summer so not much change there. Have never needed any work of any description on my teeth

I'd probably also look about ten years older due to life being immeasurably harder.

I wouldn’t look different except I might have had more children without contraception and thus be more exhausted. Otoh I get hyperemesis so unless there is some forgotten 1820 remedy for it I might have either not survived one of my many pregnancies or locked dh out of the bedroom after the first.

I think I'd look exactly the same; I have naturally blonde hair so no dye to miss, am not prone to illness and haven't ever really had any massive injuries so probably would have survived.

No cosmetic or dental procedures yet so I'd have the same teeth, thought I'd not have the good skin I have now because there wouldn't have been SPF.

Easy childbirths with no complications so minimal risk there. Breastfed both DC so boobs would probably be exactly the same (in jeans pockets).

I think I'm probably quite low maintenance.

Do you know what, with all these limping, squinty eyed, pockmarked dead people...
We've got it pretty good! 🤩

Bad eye sight so I'd be dead because of that.

However my teeth are alright, bit wonky but whatever, not much body hair, natural nice hair colour and no major injuries so at least I'd look good for the sabre tooth tiger.

(super fertile, both myself and ds were conceived on the pill)

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Let's face it, that's a miracle right there

I’d be blind now no retinal surgery then.

A lot thinner, that’s for sure, and with grey hair. Quite possibly would have been hung for murder if I had gone through the menopause without HRT

My mum claims she was very vigilant with her pill taking.

I knew I was conceived on the pill so I WAS hyper vigilant with it. Had alarms set to make sure I took it at exactly the same time every day, would use other protection if I'd been sick or taken antibiotics.

Just very fertile. My nana had six children and she was one of 13. I didn't want any!

The endo also only affects a very small portion of my womb and is mostly bloody everywhere else on my insides all over my bloody bowels so that hasn't affected fertility it would appear!

Dead at three from a strain of meningitis. Like previous posters, I would've died many times over in childhood and teens. Beauty wise, I'd be fine, probably a lot thinner.

@AlwaysLatte

Do you know what, with all these limping, squinty eyed, pockmarked dead people... We've got it pretty good! 🤩

Its bizarrely quite uplifting!

Brilliant thread I loved medical history and this is fascinating.