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Glynnis MacNichol

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399 total appearances

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Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

a plane crash during the war, I believe.

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

And his younger sister had a lobotomy.

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Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

And Robert Kennedy and Ethel's children, the eldest one died of a drug overdose.

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

The other one who had an affair with the babysitter died on the ski slopes.

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

So I think you see...

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

In that family, the fractures of expectation and attention and beauty and privilege in all the sort of ways that it's not healthy.

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

And I think what you see in John who experienced similar increased degrees of attention and tragedy in their lives from a young age, a stableness.

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Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

And I guess Jackie was largely credited for that, which I'm sure she deserved to be.

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

But there's an even keelness there that is sort of stunning.

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Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

Yeah, I think she came from a fairly normal suburban background.

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Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

In every way a woman can be, she was a self-made person.

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Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

Like if you see photos of her from the Boston University calendar,

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Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

girls of BU, she looks like a suburban mall rat in a little, like the hair is teased, the style is terrible.

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Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

And clearly she gets hired for a Calvin Klein store in a mall in Boston.

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Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

And very quickly from there, gets herself to the Calvin Klein head offices in Manhattan.

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Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

The understanding of what you need to transform to,

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Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

take yourself from a mall in Boston to serving high-end clients in Manhattan is really extraordinary.

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Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

And you see, she literally transformed herself, right?

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Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

She lost however much weight.

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Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

Her hair went from brunette to this insane blonde.