Maxwell Pearce
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317 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 29 Jun
Maxwell Pearce’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So she got on the schedule for their removal procedure.
And a few days before that procedure happened, Ebony Magazine called and asked if she would come out of retirement to shoot a new cover for Hats.
So she skipped the procedure to have her ovaries removed.
She shot the cover with Ebony Magazine.
And shortly after that, she got pregnant with my mom.
And so...
That Ebony magazine cover, along with her decision to get back into modeling, literally saved my mom's life and my life and my siblings' lives and everybody after that.
You know, stories like that can really shape the intention and the direction of the work that people create.
And in my scenario, that is incredible.
Absolutely reason number one why I have decided to recreate her entire modeling portfolio.
I just want to be clear in that I can't definitively say what that doctor's intentions were.
I just know what was a common practice in the U.S.
in that time as it relates to Black women.
So I just want to make sure that I'm fair to that doctor because that may not have been the case.
Sure, I appreciate that.
I do know that for a fact that was a very common practice.
Separately, the relationship between the materials and my grandmother has another layer to it that I did not explain in the initial story.
So her first Jet magazine cover was in 1955.
And the cover said, Lovely Hill, New York beauty models ideal hats for ladies who like to globetrot.
Oh, that's so cool.
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