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Glynnis MacNichol

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
399 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

Her face changed completely, not through plastic surgery.

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

This is prior to Botox even.

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

And I think she's a person who exerted enormous

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

agency over the trajectory of her own life and achieved what we would recognize separately from him as enormous success right she was the head of pr for calvin klein in the 90s when calvin klein was like enormously influential and powerful and you get the sense that she did not land herself in the shop girl role looking for a wealthy husband and everyone

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

When I wrote a piece about her a number of years ago, I talked to people who went to school with her and who knew her.

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

And she sounds like a very magnetic person for better and worse.

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

She was a person that people responded to.

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

And you get the sense that John F. Kennedy Jr., having grown up with a strong mother figure, was probably responding with some strength there.

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

And then the flip side of this is the second they get married, she...

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

seems to crumble over the restrictions of her life.

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

Like she quits Calvin Klein six months before they're married.

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

She prepares for the wedding, one assumes.

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

And then once they're married, she goes underground.

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

She just disappears in a way that signals in the vocabulary we have now, probably some serious mental health hurdles of terror of being out in the world.

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

And it almost seems a little bit like, and I'm projecting as you have to, because we don't ever hear anything from her, that she couldn't

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

quite managed the life she had set herself up for, right?

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

Like she had hurled herself into the top sphere of New York society and fashion and power, and then was not quite set up to grasp the ring almost because she didn't do anything with that access.

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

She didn't go on any boards.

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

She didn't start any charities.

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

It was so clear that