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How a Nepo Baby is Born

by Carolyn Wells January 5, 2023January 5, 2023

“Hollywood has always loved the children of famous people. In 2022, the internet reduced them to two little words.”

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads October 28, 2022November 9, 2022

This week’s list features stories from Shara Johnson. Paul Fischer, John Woodrow Cox, Marc Hogan, and Angelica Jade Bastién.

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What Was Brangelina?

by Carolyn Wells October 26, 2022October 26, 2022

“They were known for their image-making savvy. As their divorce reenters the press cycle, who’s better at it.”

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The Lost Diary of Anthony Bourdain

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands December 15, 2021October 19, 2022

“When his celebrity was at its height and he couldn’t walk a street on this planet without getting recognized, jiujitsu gave Bourdain a new, anonymous world to traverse, one where he was just one of us.”

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Sinead O’Connor Remembers Things Differently

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands May 19, 2021October 19, 2022

“The mainstream narrative is that a pop star ripped up a photo of the pope on ‘Saturday Night Live’ and derailed her life. What if the opposite were true?”

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The Dolly Moment

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands March 23, 2021October 19, 2022

“Only a society that willfully believes itself ‘post-racist’ could produce such a queen.”

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Dear IU, Our Bodies Are Fine

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands March 15, 2021October 19, 2022

“I knew my body wasn’t ‘right’; it didn’t look like the bodies of the K-pop idols and Korean actresses I grew up admiring.”

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Britney Spears Was a New Mom and No One Tried to Help Her

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands February 15, 2021October 19, 2022

“I’ve never met a woman who did not at some point, in those first early weeks of motherhood, break down.”

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Buying Myself Back

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands September 16, 2020October 19, 2022

Emily Ratajkowski writes an essay on celebrity, objectification, and consent. “I’ve become more familiar with seeing myself through the paparazzi’s lenses than I am with looking at myself in the mirror. And I have learned that my image, my reflection, is not my own.”

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Inside Cameo, the Celebrity Shoutout App Hungry For Fame

by Carolyn Wells September 3, 2020October 19, 2022

Cameo lets you buy personalized greetings from sports stars, singers, influencers, and zoo animals. What does it say about the nature of modern celebrity?

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