Gia Tolentino

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336 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 22 Jul

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Fresh Air · Jia Tolentino on ‘Our Plastic Surgery Nightmare’ · 22 Jul 2026 podcast

Here are the structural forces, here are the hierarchical, here's the economic, you know, laying out the political dimensions of even something as superficial as what we're doing to our faces.

They're real, and I do think they matter, and there's an absence of...

publications, you know, Redbook is itself out of business.

All the glossy magazines that Jezebel was protesting in the first place, they don't publish anymore.

Let me illustrate this with an anecdote.

So a few months ago, my five-year-old daughter had seen a friend that, you know, had been handed a phone at drop-off or 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 he just started laughing.

And my daughter was like, why did he laugh?

And he was like, because I know 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.

The most wonderful things about you will be captured and rendered inadequate by the phone.

And I think that's true, you know, with, I think that will be true with her, inevitably, her relationship to her physical self.

She'll find herself perfect and amazing until she sees the things on the screen that start to tell her, you know, you can find fault and you can improve.

And, you know, I guess I think about my own behavior as the only thing I can really control.

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