Editor's note: This article first appeared on Insurance.com and is reprinted here with their permission. Click here for the original post.

A good midlife crisis will set you back about $240,000. That's for the plastic surgery, a cool car and other purchases you'll need to "reinvent" yourself.

"Midlife crises are very expensive when you make choices that you don't think about," observes Vivian Diller, a New York psychologist and co-author of "Face It: What Women Really Feel as Their Looks Change."

Recommended For You

Want to continue reading?
Become a Free PropertyCasualty360 Digital Reader

Your access to unlimited PropertyCasualty360 content isn’t changing.
Once you are an ALM digital member, you’ll receive:

  • Breaking insurance news and analysis, on-site and via our newsletters and custom alerts
  • Weekly Insurance Speak podcast featuring exclusive interviews with industry leaders
  • Educational webcasts, white papers, and ebooks from industry thought leaders
  • Critical converage of the employee benefits and financial advisory markets on our other ALM sites, BenefitsPRO and ThinkAdvisor
NOT FOR REPRINT

© 2025 ALM Global, LLC, All Rights Reserved. Request academic re-use from www.copyright.com. All other uses, submit a request to [email protected]. For more information visit Asset & Logo Licensing.