Kylie Jenner's Boob Job, Kris Jenner's Facelift & The Problem With Choice Feminism
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Last week Kylie Jenner cemented her new identity as a ‘girl's girl’ revealing the specificities of her boob job while momager Kris chimed in with details of not just one face lift, but two of them. Are the KarJenners finally letting their guard down about how they crafted themselves in line with the modern beauty standards they've helped craft, or is it all a marketing ploy to win relatability brownie points for the family?
In this episode of The Polyester Podcast, hosts Ione and Gina are ripping apart the rampant normalisation of plastic surgery on social media - considering the actual statistics surrounding cosmetic procedures as well as the status of people turning their treatments into consumable content. Is self improvement culture to blame for our warped understanding of bodily autonomy? Has choice feminism poisoned all of our brains? And will our collective self esteem ever recover from the impact of influencers?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi Gina. Hi, Ione. Hi everyone. I'm Gina, the senior editor of Polyester. And I'm Ayoni, the founding |
| 0:06.4 | editor-in-chief of Polyester. And this is the Polyester podcast, a feminist pop culture podcast dissecting |
| 0:11.8 | the discourse on a weekly basis. And if you haven't yet, make sure to subscribe to our membership |
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| 0:32.8 | please make sure to like, rate, subscribe and review. Do we have any reviews, I only? We do. This is one that is |
| 0:40.1 | five stars from Lowell Pole in the United Kingdom, authentic and real, love every episode, |
| 0:46.0 | feels like real conversation about topics people often sheep together on. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 0:51.8 | And then on Spotify, this is on last week's episode from Stevie. |
| 0:57.3 | Wow, this was such an insightful episode and really made me think about the media I was consuming as a teenager back in the Tumblr days. |
| 1:03.1 | As always, beautifully articulated and very well handled. |
| 1:06.1 | Claps to you both. Love the podcast so much. It's the highlight of my week. |
| 1:09.1 | Fark-Liv Schmidt and her skinny society, long Long live polyester X-Ox. Thank you. Thank you. Then Grayson, also on Spotify, says, Hard Relate as a 16-year-old, wellness culture, especially for me. Men's gym culture is really messing everyone up, and that change has been so tangible in the last few years. Balance seems to be thrown out the window. |
| 1:28.0 | Thanks for a lovely episode where you snapped me out of a weird health, wellness funk I've been in, |
| 1:31.8 | which is very lovely. |
| 1:33.1 | Is Grayson 16? |
| 1:35.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:36.3 | You're very wise, Grayson, to be listening to this kind of stuff when you're 16. |
| 1:39.5 | Very wise, very wise. |
| 1:41.5 | I certainly was nay. |
| 1:43.9 | So what are we talking about today? |
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