Gia (Jia) Tolentino

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

I mean, you're basically arguing that we're entering a world where

These faces don't communicate because Botox and some of these other treatments freeze the face.

We're losing the ability to read one another.

Yeah, absolutely.

I mean, it seems like like you were saying, there are plastic surgeons on Instagram and TikTok, there all of these influencers that are just for kind of forensically analyzing what people may and may not have done.

We love to look at faces, we're still looking at faces, but increasingly online, especially if you are a girl or you're a woman, your in your feed is likely tailored towards these sort of things.

The face is being presented to us as a consumer guide and a disciplinary manual.

rather than a human repository of disposition and life.

And and you know, I don't think this in and of itself, I don't think individually there's anything

immoral or wrong about plasticity, about changing your looks.

You know, individually these cases are n are not

very interesting to me and not worth, you know, judging on an individual level whatsoever.

But it just does seem

collectively, like that shift has happened.

That the face is not something

that especially if you are socialized as a woman, that you're looking at for human information that that you want human information and experience to show on your face, it's really being reconfigured as kind of a

An object that should stand up under digital surveillance.

If you're just joining us, my guest is New Yorker staff writer Gia Tolentino.

Her new piece, Our Plastic Surgery Nightmare, is about the rise of undetectable cosmetic surgery and what it's doing to our grip on reality.

We'll continue our conversation after a short break.

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