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

There's neck lifts.

There's mini lipo.

There's all sorts of stuff.

There's the realm of just constant facial resurfacing with laser and you know, and all of these things that you know, again, it's like individually.

Whatever, right?

You know, individually let people live.

However, collectively, it just what is this reframing the face as?

Mm-hmm.

It's not just our faces either.

Our producer Molly points out that BBL's Brazilian butt lifts

are being reversed and people are taking off their nails and lashes are going out of style.

It's kind of turning into the clean girl aesthetic.

Is that sort of under the same phenomenon?

One thing that

is just kind of blanket true, will always be true about beauty standards for women, is that they're never static.

There's never a final point, well, at least from the point of view of the industries dictating it, which now include the surveillance technologies of the phone and social media.

There is never a fixed point at which contentment is prescribed or incentivized or you know, or or okayed.

It's what is prescribed is just a perpetual work

perpetual outlay of money and time and most importantly, concern, a sense of the self as something that must always be optimized, perfected, improved.

And you know, this is beauty standards have been punitive, disciplinary.

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