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Best Of: Bad Nose, Good Nose

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4.83.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Inspired an unlady told her big nose needed "fixing", this 2022 gem asks: What happens when refusing a nose job means defying family tradition? Filmmaker Gayle Kirschenbaum shares why her mother endlessly agonized over the bump in her nose. Then, medical historian Sharrona Pearl deconstructs the "Jewish nose" myth, big nose stigma and rhinoplasty's vain reputation. Follow Unladylike on Instagram and TikTok Join the Unladies' Room Shop merch Advertise with Multitude Productions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is un-Ladylike Best of.

0:04.0

Bad-Nose Good-Nose is one of the best,

0:11.0

because it came from a listener like you.

0:15.0

Maybe.

0:16.5

Are you an un-lady who has written in, DM, sent in a voice memo mentioning your

0:22.0

un-mentionable? Well, a in a And these episodes that come from you are also the ones that in turn mean the most to listeners.

0:39.9

And so for this best of edition, I'm sharing some listener letters at the end so that you can get the instant

0:43.0

letter at the end so that you can get the instant

0:46.0

gratification of hearing what other people thought.

0:51.0

And on a personal note, it's just an honor whenever y'all entrust on Ladylike, slash me,

1:00.0

with your deepest darkest, or just general cognitive dissonance.

1:05.0

I don't believe in changing things that you're given.

1:10.0

It's something is unnatural about it.

1:15.0

Is that why you never got the same kind of carved and sculpted nose, the other girls at Erasmus

1:19.7

how I got?

1:21.7

Well, many reasons. A, I didn't have the money. B, I didn't, I don't like pain. Three, I don't trust the

1:28.6

doctors. I mean, do you know what I mean? It's like if I could have taken off a quarter of a millimeter over here and just

1:37.1

Twisted a little there, but I don't trust that I would come out maybe looking like a funny, you know, a nose job which is worse than what you have.

1:46.0

No, I actually like my nose.

1:50.0

It's a little big, but you can't have everything. Like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like. I'm Kristen and that was of course Barbara Streisand talking of course about her nose. Her nose has been something that this pop

2:28.0

cultural icon has never not had to talk about the fact that she no she just doesn't want a

2:37.6

nose job other plastic surgery fine but fucking leave Barbara Streisand's nose alone. I mean really that could be why

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