Beauty standards change with each generation, but today’s standards of beauty seem to be more unachievable than ever.Today, we talk about how the beauty industry and its influencers are causing a rise in cosmetic surgeries.Beauty reporter Jessica DeFino joins us. She writes the “<a href="https://jessicadefino.substack.com/">Unpublishable</a>," a beauty critical newsletter.Think about the type of beauty products you consume. What influences you?GUESTS: <ul> <li>Jessica DeFino - Freelance Beauty Reporter and writer of the Unpublishable Newsletter</li> <li>Alka Menon - Assistant Professor of Sociology at Yale University</li> </ul> Cat Pastor contributed to this show which originally aired <a href="https://www.ctpublic.org/show/where-we-live/2022-06-09/unpacking-the-impossible-standards-of-beauty-culture">June 9, 2022</a>.<a href="http://wnpr.org/donate" rel="payment">Support the show: http://wnpr.org/donate</a>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

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Produced by Connecticut Public, 'Where We Live' puts Connecticut in context. Host Catherine Shen brings us fascinating, informed, in-depth conversations and stories beyond news headlines.  We start local, but we take time to explore domestic and international issues and consider how they impact us personally and here at home.