ABSTRACT
Anti-aging intervention for the body have been increasing in parallel with scientific, technological, and medical developments. In this sense, the subject of the study is the aging experience of people who have undergone plastic surgery to eliminate the signs of aging that occur in the body. The aim of the study is to examine the body and self-perceptions of people involved in anti-aging intervention, their individual and social experiences that led to their intervention, and their perceptions toward aging, old age, and the older body. This study was designed with a phenomenological framework and adopted a qualitative research method. In-depth interviews were conducted with 29 people using purposive and snowball sampling techniques. Content analysis of the obtained data was performed using the program MAXQDA 20. As a result, the study, has determined people who’ve intervened in the aging of their bodies to consider their bodies to be important as a living and perceiving entity, to have established a close relationship between their body and self-perception, and to have resultantly attempted to eliminate the manifestations of biological aging in the body. They perceive the older body to be weak, incomplete, defective, pathological, and disadvantaged and to evoke mortality. They were also determined to like a young wrinkle-free body, as it provides an advantage in the partner relationship and is preferred in the labor market.