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Infamous

How Kim Kardashian Turned Us All Into Content Creators

Infamous

Sony Music

News, Relationships, Society & Culture, True Crime, Entertainment News

3.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

This week on Infamous, author M.J. Corey joins Vanessa and Natalie to talk about her provocative new book, Dekonstructing the Kardashians: A New Media Manifesto. Together, they unpack how the Kardashian era reshaped faces via plastic surgery, and about the way ordinary people document, brand, monetize, and perform their own lives online. For more from MJ, follow her on Instagram: @mjcorey. Click ‘Subscribe’ at the top of the Infamous show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts  Read Vanessa’s book, Blurred Lines: Sex, Power and Consent on Campus, and check out Natalie on Instagram at @natrobe To connect with Infamous's creative team, join the community at joincampsidemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

You may not know that aside from having the most iconic fleet in ocean travel,

0:04.0

Cunard's Four Queens also host a remarkable cast of extraordinary people.

0:09.0

So after a morning spent relaxing, there are talks, classes, perhaps even lunch by the pool,

0:14.0

with the leading lights of literature, culture, fashion and theatre.

0:18.0

Then, when evening falls, feel the ship come alive as stages are set for glittering gala's

0:24.6

and the most prestigious performances at sea.

0:27.6

Why cruise when you can QNard?

0:29.6

Camp site media.

0:40.8

Welcome back to Inf infamous, everyone.

0:47.6

So if you're wondering when we're getting back to heavier topics, next week we're going to have something quite complex and weighty.

0:52.5

But for this week, I'd like to start by saying, if you're a certain level of online, or you happen to be a woman who was paid attention to her aging face recently, you may have seen some conversation around

0:59.1

rich face.

1:01.1

That is, the face that rich people almost universally seem to have now.

1:05.9

Think Lauren Sanchez or Christy Noem, or even Emily Blunt in the latest Devil Wears

1:10.4

Prada.

1:11.5

As Amy O'Dell, who's been on our podcast talking about Anna Wintour and Gwyneth Paltrow,

1:16.2

both of whom she wrote unauthorized biographies about, opined in the New York Times,

1:20.7

quote, a rich face is stretched taught, often incapable of varied expressions,

1:25.4

and plumped with filler or implants or a person's own

1:28.9

grafted fat, end quote. I would describe it personally, as sculpted to appear youthful, with dollops

1:36.5

of fat plop just so on the lips and cheekbones, frozen at the forehead, the hollows of the under

1:41.7

eye filled in so much they look like little couch cushions

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