Spray Tan Politics

Stuff Mom Never Told You

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Society & Culture

4.2 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2016

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Suntanned skin became a seasonal beauty standard for wealthy white women in the 1920s. Cristen and Caroline explore the class and colorism behind our tanning tradition and spotlight why there's far more than Coco Chanel's revolutionary sunburn.

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1:00.0	My name is Andrea Barber, and I'm Jodie Sweet, but let's be honest here, you know me as Stephanie Tanner.
1:05.0	And I'm clearly Kimmy Ghibler. We spent our entire childhoods on a little show called Full House, playing frenemies, but becoming besties whenever the cameras weren't rolling.
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1:35.0	Welcome to Stuff Mom Never Told You, from houseofworks.com.
1:41.0	Hello, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Kristen. And I'm Caroline. And today on the show, it's two pale white girls talking about tanning.
1:52.0	That's right. My whole life, I have been blindingly white. My Scottish Irish heritage would have it no other way.
2:02.0	I am so white that a few years ago, I say a few, it was probably like 15 or 10 years ago.
2:09.0	My friend's mother saw me in a bathing suit and said, Caroline, you are glowing. And she didn't say this because I was pregnant.
2:17.0	She, you know, thank God, she said it because I was so white and standing in the sun. Sounds like she really had a way with words.
2:26.0	She really did. And so I have since then, not because of that, but just over the course of my life every summer, I buy tanning creams.
2:37.0	Yeah. Not because of the mom. No, not because of her.
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