'Vogue' Reports That Celebrities Suffer, Too
Is the era of the "always rising" mega-celeb profile nearing its natural end?
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Jennifer Lopez appears on the cover of the new issue of Vogue wearing a Valentino dress while swinging from a tree barefoot. The cover line reminds us that love is in the air in addition to haute couture. A number of people DM’d me on Instagram to say that the cover was as predictable as the story after I shared this Lopez quote from the profile:
“…It used to be about the idea of validation in other people’s eyes. It really used to be. Because I wanted to be part of the club. But I don’t anymore. There’s something bigger that I’m after. It’s about touching people’s lives and being touched.”
Claiming to be disinterested in being part of the “in” group while posing for the cover of a magazine that has for decades hand-picked the “in” group is, of course, as absurd as saying she’s now interested in “touching people’s lives and being touched.” One person noted that it had the same flavor of this classic Kate Hudson quote from Marie Claire:
The new Lopez profile is one of many recent magazine puff pieces that illustrate the lengths to which celebrity PR teams now go to cast the most famous women on the planet as, if not relatable, then at least people who won’t get dragged on social media for being out-of-touch owing to inordinate privilege and wealth.
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