Culture Tag

Picking apart celebrity faces may seem to be harmless entertainment, but we aren’t consuming it consequence-free My teenage years coincided, relatively unfortunately, with the peak of Heat magazine. Week after week, I might examine the very best celebrity tummies, the worst summer bodies, the highest 20 celebrity “flaws” – Uma Thurman’s big hands, Emma Bunton’s large brow – the cellulite, the sweat patches, the tanning disasters. All of them dissected and analysed in excruciating detail.  Uma Thurman and Emma Bunton may or may not have seen the zoomed in paparazzi pictures of their so-called flaws splashed across the covers, but every young girl and boy with a “large brow” or “big hands” reading at...