Brittany Luce

Right.

Uh, if I had to choose one over the other on paper, I'm choosing to live and maybe be ugly or whatever, you know?

It's tricky because like, I don't know.

I would be lying if I said that like, I said the idea of eternal beauty didn't sound appealing, right?

Like you said, beautiful death does sound even more poetic than an ugly life.

Like it sounds better.

But I don't know.

I just wonder like, why is it so hard for us to let it go?

Like this idea of eternal beauty go, even though it requires death, which is in all of this, the thing that many of us are running from.

Like we fear it, you know?

Jessica, it's so great to have you back.

I'm so glad that we were able to flesh out this conversation of this thing that just been on my mind.

So thank you so, so much.

I really appreciate it.

That was beauty reporter, critic, and author of The Flesh World Substack, Jessica DeFino.

This episode of It's Been a Minute was produced by Alexis Williams.

Our supervising producer is Barton Girdwood.

Our VP of programming is Yolanda Sanguini.

All right.

That's all for this episode of It's Been a Minute from NPR.