The State of Beauty Politics and What It All Means with Tressie McMillan Cottom

Botox, filler, beauty trends, and the pressure to keep up with it all. This week, Christiana sits down with NYT columnist and UNC Chapel Hill professor Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom to explore how beauty culture is changing around the world, why our appearances carry so much power, and what happens when the rules of beauty keep changing.

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01:37 Meet Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom 

03:45 Sculpt and how beauty norms became what they are right now

06:12 The democratization of plastic surgery and injectibles 

09:06 Beauty and ugliness as structural concepts