Toppling the Myth of the Supermodel
glamour.comChristy, Cindy, Linda, and Naomi. We’d likely never been within 500 miles of these women, the velvet rope of their champagne and Concorde lifestyles closed off to a bunch of kids in suburban Texas.
Still, their names, faces, and bodies became almost as familiar to us as our own. Like most of the planet at that time, we were transfixed by their impossible beauty.When I heard about the , now streaming, I found myself yearning to find out more about these women, to hear about their lives—then and now.
It used to be about simply marveling at their physical perfection–bone structures and legs and lips that made us question our own short legs or undetectable cheekbones.
In 2023, as the women move through their fifties, it’s about looking past the perfection they were expected to embody in their youth and glimpsing something deeper, something relatable.In the third episode of the series, there’s a clip of feminist pop culture critic Camille Paglia calling fashion magazines “artwork for the masses.” That’s often how these women were presented to us, as works of art.
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