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In part one of a two parter, Sovereign Syre and Ela Darling delve into the origins of a 2000s icon. 
Anna Nicole Smith was a polarizing, misunderstood figure. Often  remembered for being an absolute trainwreck. Her rise to fame, from the girl next door to supermodel, made her a media darling, her campy, over the top persona, and ditzy girl humor on one of the earliest reality shows made her a queer icon, and her slide into addiction and despair made her a tragic figure of mythic proportions.  I mean, she’s become a trope in rap songs alongside the likes of Donald Trump and Monica Lewinsky. Iconic.
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/anna-nicole-smith-netflix-doc-claims-her-tragic-life-story-was-a-fraud
https://nextwaving.wordpress.com/2008/02/09/the-strange-case-of-anna-nicole-smith/
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN26300814/ 
https://sourcingjournal.com/denim/denim-brands/guess-paul-marciano-sexual-misconduct-accusers-sue-board-members-harassment-335114/ 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Howard_Marshall 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Nicole_Smith 
https://fortune.com/2023/09/29/guess-settlement-marciano-sexual-misconduct-lawsuit/
https://thehundreds.com/blogs/content/reading-playboy-for-the-articles-13-must-read-journalism-literature-pieces-from-playboy-magazine
http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0702/18/lkl.01.html
 
 

From the silent era's vamps to the Golden Age goddesses of Hollywood, the bombshell has always been an enchanting figure, shaped and reshaped by societal desires and anxieties. 
The bombshell is not a static ideal. It has morphed and adapted, mirroring the shifting landscapes of culture and feminism. Today, in the digital age, the bombshell exists in a new dimension, where social media amplifies both empowerment and objectification. We are left to question: Is the bombshell a symbol of female agency, or merely a construct designed to titillate and control?
This exploration will delve into the complex history of the bombshell inits various incarnations, and examine the power it wields.
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The Online Etymology Dictionary by Douglas Harper:https://www.etymonline.com/word/bombshell
"Bombshell (slang)" Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombshell_(slang) 
Jean Harlow jeanharlow.com/about/biography 
Dorothy Dandridge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Dandridge 
Josephine Baker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Baker 
Ertha Kitt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eartha_Kitt 
Hallie Berry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halle_Berry 
Mariyln Monroe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Monroe
Theda Bara https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theda_Bara 
Louise Brooks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Brooks
Rita Hayworth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Hayworth
Lana Turner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lana_Turner
Ava Gardner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ava_Gardner 
Bridget Bardot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigitte_Bardot 
Sophia Loren https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_Loren 
Jayne Mansfield https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayne_Mansfield 
Raquel Welch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raquel_Welch 
Ann Margaret https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann-Margret 
Jane Fonda https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Fonda 
Diane Keaton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Keaton 
Faye Dunaway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faye_Dunaway 
Farah Fawcett https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farrah_Fawcett 
Bo Derek https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Derek 
Cheryl Teigs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheryl_Tiegs 
"Pamela Anderson" Biography.com. A&E NetworksTelevision.https://www.biography.com/actors/pamela-anderson
"Carmen Electra" Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Electra 
"Salma Hayek" Biography.com. A&E Networks Television. https://www.biography.com/actor/salma-hayek
"Anna Nicole Smith" Biography.com. A&E Networks Television. https://www.biography.com/personality/anna-nicole-smith
 

His transition required thirteen operations and took place over four years, with no one the wiser. Dillon went on to be a surgeon himself, and traveled the world with various naval vessels for six years, living life as a man, with no one suspecting his origins. 
He was ultimately outed because of his nobility.  There are peerage records that are made of everyone's descendancy and changing one’s names in those had been impossible and eventually someone noticed the discrepancy. 
After living as Michael Dillon for fifteen years, he was onboard a ship when he got a cable from England. It was from The Daily Express as said “Do you intend to claim the title since your change-over?”
Sources:
Out of the Ordinary by Michael Dillon
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Today, we are taking on our first man. Because sometimes men do important stuff for women. Like creating the field of plastic surgery. He’s a saint that changed the lives of thousands of wounded soldiers during WWI and pioneered many of the cosmetic procedures that are used today…primarily on women. Ladies and Gentlemen, Dr. Harold Gillies
Sources: 
The Facemaker by Lindsey Fitzharris
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Gillies
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“Prozac Nation is a young person’s book, both in terms of its author and its target audience…What seemed most important to me about Wurtzel’s writing was that she had been messy, and she was willing to detail that mess without apology…It was a radical departure from how I’d seen women write about themselves…Whether we like it or not, Prozac Nation really did change the landscape when it comes to the way women write about themselves. It laid the groundwork for the what Jia Tolentino called the “personal-essay boom” of the early 2010s, an era when no detail was too graphic, no humiliation too private for sharing.”
 
It’s important to understand what was going on in the culture at this time. Prozac had just become popular, and record numbers of people were being diagnosed with depression. The chart topping artists were Depeche Mode, Nirvana, and Nine Inch Nails, bands whose messages were those of apathy and wallowing in despair, and a few months before Prozac Nation was published, Kurt Cobain committed suicide. There was a problem, but people were also wary of how we were treating it. 
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/no Elizabeth_Wurtzel
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/07/books/elizabeth-wurtzel-dead.html
https://lithub.com/how-did-elizabeth-wurtzel-survive-us/
https://www.curbed.com/2022/10/elizabeth-wurtzel-auction.html
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/the-chaotic-beautiful-larks-of-elizabeth-wurtzel
https://longreads.com/2019/09/25/prozac-nation-turns-25/
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/11/7/archives-elizabeth-wurtzel/
https://observer.com/2006/03/the-liars-club-an-incomplete-history-of-untruths-and-consequences/
https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/25/books/rambunctious-with-tears.html
https://www.newspapers.com/image/177392370/?match=1&terms=Elizabeth%20Wurtzel
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/08/with-prozac-nation-elizabeth-wurtzel-blew-open-the-memoir-as-we-know-it
https://litfemme.substack.com/p/ive-been-thinking-about-elizabeth
https://www.thecut.com/2013/01/elizabeth-wurtzel-on-self-help.html

This week Sovereign Syre and Ela Darling profile writer and icon, Elizabeth Wurtzel. A beautiful, young, Harvard graduate whose memoir Prozac Nation got her on the New York Times Bestseller List and made her an overnight celebrity. She also suffered from major depression and was one of the first people to be prescribed the drug Prozac.  She was both a media darling, and roundly mocked by others, for what was precieved as a kind of narcissism endemic of a news generation, a cohort labeled Gen X. 
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Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America by Elizabeth Wurtzel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/no Elizabeth_Wurtzel
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/07/books/elizabeth-wurtzel-dead.html
https://lithub.com/how-did-elizabeth-wurtzel-survive-us/
https://www.curbed.com/2022/10/elizabeth-wurtzel-auction.html
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/the-chaotic-beautiful-larks-of-elizabeth-wurtzel
https://longreads.com/2019/09/25/prozac-nation-turns-25/
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/11/7/archives-elizabeth-wurtzel/
https://observer.com/2006/03/the-liars-club-an-incomplete-history-of-untruths-and-consequences/
https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/25/books/rambunctious-with-tears.html
https://www.newspapers.com/image/177392370/?match=1&terms=Elizabeth%20Wurtzel
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/08/with-prozac-nation-elizabeth-wurtzel-blew-open-the-memoir-as-we-know-it
https://litfemme.substack.com/p/ive-been-thinking-about-elizabeth
https://www.thecut.com/2013/01/elizabeth-wurtzel-on-self-help.html