Exploring Sylvia's transition into writing in the late 1930s, focusing on beauty, parenting, and marriage advice, promoting a healthy lifestyle and physical self-improvement. The chapter also discusses her fading from the public eye and controversial views on personal health and appearance responsibility.
This 2019 episode covers Sylvia of Hollywood, famous in the 1920s and 1930s for shaping up starlets, cementing the idea that Hollywood's beauties were aspirational figures for the average woman.
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