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Infamous

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Self-Care Is Awesome and Also a Scam

Dec 18, 2025
32 mins

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Episode Description

Fashion writer Amy Larocca joins Vanessa to unpack the modern wellness obsession—from expensive self-care gadgets to Ozempic and glow culture. They dig into Amy’s book How to Be Well: Navigating Our Self-Care Epidemic, One Dubious Cure at a Time and ask when wellness became a moral obligation.


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