guardian.co.uk,Friday 15 July 2011 14.00 BST
Tara Palmer-Tomkinson says she feels like a different person after her nose job. Tell us what gives you your sense of identity.
Tara Palmer-Tomkinson – complete with new nose. Photograph: Martin Karius/Rex Features
You are what you eat. Clothes make the man. We’ve plenty of ways of slightly modifying our identity, some more drastic than others.
Socialite Tara-Palmer Tomkinson has said she “feels like a different person” after getting a new nose. Would they be right to think so? At what point can you change and remain the same person – and should you? Do you belong to the Billy Joel school of thought – Don’t go changing, to try and please me – or, like David Bowie, conclude Just gonna have to be a different man?
Is your identity something essential or forever in flux – what makes you, you?
