'I Was Deprived of My Sons' Childhood' ; When Dr Veronique Simon's Two Young Children Were Snatched by Their Father and Taken to Israel, in a Display of Maternal Bravery She Spent Years Fighting to Get Them Back. Here the Top French Dermatologist (Right) Tells Jane Gordon About Her Family's Emotional Reunion After More Than a Decade

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D r Veronique Simon is marvelling at the view from the elegant shuttered windows of her new London consulting rooms. Petite, pretty and dressed in that faultless way that somehow only French women can manage, she appears to be totally in charge of her life. An internationally renowned dermatologist - with an impressive array of degrees from the University of Paris and a stellar client list - she is the perfect embodiment of her belief that women of a certain age (she recently turned 50) can look great without resorting to surgery.

'I realised at the outset of my career as a scientist that the most interesting area of research for me was skin biology. I was aware that we were at the beginning of a revolution for women. For the first time in history, women can look fabulous well into their 60s or 70s. I have devoted much of .

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'I Was Deprived of My Sons' Childhood' ; When Dr Veronique Simon's Two Young Children Were Snatched by Their Father and Taken to Israel, in a Display of Maternal Bravery She Spent Years Fighting to Get Them Back. Here the Top French Dermatologist (Right) Tells Jane Gordon About Her Family's Emotional Reunion After More Than a Decade

my life to researching a way in which you can naturally rejuvenate skin, so that you can achieve a great, healthy look without surgery,' she says.

Veronique has spent the past 20 years researching and developing a range of treatments and cosmetic products using natural ingredients that have a unique regenerating...

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