Ep 253: Supermodel Karen Elson Thinks Modeling Needs an Overhaul

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4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Model and musician Karen Elson gets brutally honest about her journey in fashion, and what needs to change. In this interview, Elson talks candidly about the personal challenges she went through with body image and bullying in the press, and where she feels the fashion industry was complicit. She also talks about progress in models' rights and inclusivity, two major areas where the business is beginning to make strides. -- Want more of our beauty podcast? Episode Recaps & Notes: fatmascara.com/blog; Our Private Facebook Group: Fat Mascara / Raising a Wand; Instagram: @fatmascara, @jessicamatlin, @jenn_edit; Twitter: @fatmascara; Email: [email protected]; To Leave a Voicemail & Be Featured on a Future Episode: 646-481-8182

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0:00.0	Happy Thanksgiving, it's Fat Miskara. I'm Jess. I'm Jess. I'm Jen.
0:13.2	Listen, I'm excited about this show,
0:15.2	but before we get into it, can I just say,
0:18.0	I know Thanksgiving only here in the United States
0:20.0	and we have listeners everywhere,
0:22.1	but damn it, this year, I am so freaking thankful to be here, A,
0:27.4	to have our listeners and our big fat mascara family be.
0:31.8	I'm thankful for like figuring out all this tech crap this year and
0:36.1	making this podcast happen and I'm thankful for you Jessica Matlin my dear
0:40.9	dear friend who got me through a freaking crazy year but also last week and I don't know I'm
0:47.6	I'm thankful for you Jen Goldstein Sullivan and I'm thankful for our producer red. Thank you red. Oh God we got to get
0:58.0	red on the show. Oh yeah yeah. I just thought of something.
1:03.0	Red.
1:04.0	Very on theme.
1:05.0	We got red heads all around.
1:07.0	Oh, yes, I didn't think about that.
1:09.0	Yeah, okay, so we have a great episode today.
1:12.0	This one is really a big thrill for me because I am a major
1:15.4	major fan of our guests. Her name is Karen Elson. She is only one of the biggest models of our time.
1:25.2	She is a British supermodel,
1:27.1	but she is really just a global force.
1:29.3	She is a singer, songwriter.
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