Apolo Anton Ohno, who still sports his trademark "soul-patch" [of facial hair just above his chin, says his hard work has paid off.
VOA: standard.2010.02.23
Babs was what Diana, God help us, might be thirty years hence high-heeled, ceramicized, liposucted, devaricosed, her golden fall of hair as shiny and hard as peanut brittle.
Something that the writer implies (and I am sure it was not his intention) is that many men feel threaten by the fact that women can do multitasks without having a hard attack or losing hair because we are used to work under a lot of pressure (family, friends, co-workers, society).