How Digital Beauty Standards Are Messing Us Up with Elise Hu

What has digital culture done to our standards of beauty and to our wallets when we have to spend to reach those standards of beauty. The proliferation of all digital media has wildly influenced how we perceive ourselves and our bodies, often to our detriment. Today we're joined by Elise Hu, a journalist and author who used her time as an NPR correspondent in Korea as a launching pad to explore the brave new world of absurd beauty standards. We also talk about why meat on a stick is the best food group and what we want on our tombstones. Listen to Elise on TED Talks Daily here. Listen to Elise on Forever 35 here. Order her book Flawless here. Subscribe to Over the Influence, the newsletter here. Buy yourself a Sicilian Inheritance for all of your friends here. Please visit our lovely sponsors here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Under the Influence is a deep dive into social media, a place haunted by aspirational marketing where it feels like every other person is a social media influencer trying to sell you something, all while posed in perfect houses that never seem to get messy. And behind this airbrushed perfection is money, so much money. Billions and billions of dollars. Journalist and mom Jo Piazza looks at how we got here, what it all means and how the commodification of every single aspect of our lives is driving everyone (but mostly women and mothers) a little insane.