Sep 6, 2026 · 21 min · 7 segments
This episode kicks off the 4th season of Closet Philosophy, so we had lots to talk about. The overarching theme is that beauty ideals are mercurial. Jennine and Kristen have lived through the whiplash…
Kristen PhilipkoskiHost
Jennine JacobHost
And so, and that's what, you know, I wanted to talk about today because there's like so much going on in the wind's of change about like beauty.
We have people who are in their sixties that look like they're in their twenties due to plastic surgery.
There are all of these things like making the beauty standards much, much more rigid than they were even just a couple of years ago.
And so, and beauty standards have changed over time in a lot of different ways.
So like if you look at historically, I mean, people often use the example of like Marilyn Monroe or, you know, historical figures like that.
And one thing that was really crazy was that She was in England going to a private school and her mom forgot to pick her up or whoever was supposed to pick her up forgot to pick her up.
So she was standing on a corner alone and some guy came and took her to like a, I don't know, House of Ill Repute or whatever they called them in those days.
And so, and that's what, you know, I wanted to talk about today because there's like so much going on in the wind's of change about like beauty.
We have people who are in their sixties that look like they're in their twenties due to plastic surgery.
There are all of these things like making the beauty standards much, much more rigid than they were even just a couple of years ago.
And so, and beauty standards have changed over time in a lot of different ways.
So like if you look at historically, I mean, people often use the example of like Marilyn Monroe or, you know, historical figures like that.
And one thing that was really crazy was that She was in England going to a private school and her mom forgot to pick her up or whoever was supposed to pick her up forgot to pick her up.
So she was standing on a corner alone and some guy came and took her to like a, I don't know, House of Ill Repute or whatever they called them in those days.
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