I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This [But I'm Going to Anyway]

by Chelsea Devantez

And the stakes for celebrity women to share were so high—they had shaped our culture and were often then destroyed by our culture. Their lives and sometimes their paychecks hung in the balance of whatever narrative the male paparazzi or tabloids wanted to spin. Then, when they took the time to tell their own story, it had healed them, and society oh so conveniently branded the books as trash literature so that we would ignore their power.