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Byline: Photographs by Steven Klein.
With all the body parts we've grown to obsess over as we age, should armpits, too, be on the list? Dodie Kazanjian battles a new bulge.
I first noticed it one hot day in August 1999 on my way to a luncheon party on Long Island. As I studied a map in the car, my eye caught an unsightly bulge of skin peeping out from under my sleeveless blouse, where my left arm joined my chest. That's sort of unattractive, I thought. Over the years, I've obsessed about one part of my body after another--my fat thighs, my nasolabial folds, my elbows--but I guess I just wasn't ready for the armpit. It's not a word that comes up a lot in ...