Gia Tolentino
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336 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 22 Jul
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Right.
Yeah, well, something I found— You write about this, yeah.
If you think about I mean, the Kardashians are the easiest proxy for this.
You could see their faces changing in real time.
Kim Kardashian published a selfie book called Selfish where you could see how her face had changed.
It was the work was on display, even though the procedures themselves were fairly minor.
The facelift is interesting because the procedure itself is kind of extraordinarily violent.
You're severing all these layers of muscle and fat and fascia.
Bridget Reid did a piece for New York Magazine where she describes a plastic surgeon lifting the face off of its bones like a Halloween mask and rearranging it.
But the results are almost supernatural.
You know, there's almost something mystical and gnostic about it where there's this – they kind of imply this complex secret knowledge.
And as you mentioned, there's kind of a cottage industry that has been growing over the last decade because these things are interesting to look at on screens.
We love looking at faces.
And we love looking at faces because, as I was writing, you know, the face is traditionally...
how we come to know each other, how the first glimpse we have of a person's temperament and soul and life history and disposition.
Right.
Yeah, absolutely.
I mean, it seems like, you know, like you were saying, there are plastic surgeons on Instagram and TikTok.
There are 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.
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