Gia (Jia) Tolentino

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556 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 8 Aug

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Fresh Air · Best Of: Jia Tolentino on plastic surgery & AI / ‘Beef’ creator Lee Sun Jin · 8 Aug 2026 podcast

Have the beauty look of the second Trump administration be so overtly artificial, one that is only possible with injecting

you know, synthetic substances into your face and at the same time they're saying raw milk only, you know, be skeptical of your vaccine schedule.

Yeah.

Like there's there's a there's a similar built in contradiction between the, you know, the aggressively prescribed naturalness, quote unquote, and then what the faces look like and what actually has to go into the faces for them to look like that.

Both you and I are parents navigating this world for our children, and you also

wrote in uh your piece how Kylie Jenner, who is famous for, among other things, altering her face, says she'd be heartbroken if her daughter got surgery as a teenager.

And

I'm just wondering when you look at your kids

What do you see coming for them and what is your plan to navigate it?

Let me illustrate this with an anecdote.

So a f a few months ago, my my five year old daughter had seen a f a friend that, you know, had been handed a phone at pickup or something.

She was like, Mom, when can I get a phone?

And my husband was walking through the hallway and I he just started laughing.

And my daughter was like, Why did he laugh?

And he was like, 'Cause I know that how much that broke her heart and she was like, Well, Mom, why did that break your heart?

And I was like, How do I explain this to a five year old?

And what I said to her is I was like, you your imagination

Your sense of freedom.

Your sense of what's possible is the most beautiful thing about you, and as soon as you get a phone

All of that will start to shrink, all of that will become endangered.

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