{"id":10719,"date":"2025-07-15T04:03:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T04:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/10719\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T04:03:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T04:03:04","slug":"its-terrible-the-things-i-have-to-do-to-be-me-by-philippa-snow-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/10719\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Terrible the Things I Have to Do to Be Me by Philippa Snow review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once you have read Philippa Snow\u2019s It\u2019s Terrible the Things I Have to Do to Be Me, it\u2019s impossible not to see the markers of femininity and fame all around. Whether it\u2019s Sydney Sweeney producing a limited edition soap made from her bath water, or reality TV star Erika Jayne singing \u201cIt\u2019s expensive to be me\u201d on the Mighty Hoopla stage. <\/p>\n

In Snow\u2019s latest work of nonfiction each chapter compares the lives of two famous women, from blonde bombshells Marilyn Monroe and Anna Nicole Smith to soul singers Amy Winehouse<\/a> and Billie Holiday.<\/p>\n

Some connections have been made before and even encouraged by the stars themselves, as is the case with Smith and her Hollywood inspiration. But others, such as Elizabeth Taylor and Lindsay Lohan, few would think to compare<\/p>\n

Snow does not cast moral judgement on these women, she saves that for those who abused them, controlled them and the paparazzi and government forces that hunted them down. But this book isn\u2019t about the morality of fame, and Snow refuses to get into the weeds of each star\u2019s actions, as online discourse and tabloids have always done. <\/p>\n

Snow\u2019s focus as an art critic is on the image these stars curated, exploring whether they managed to retain something of their identity for themselves.<\/p>\n

Her comparisons flow so easily that Snow\u2019s criticism has a spiritual majesty. What could be seen as coincidence appears instead as the guiding hand of fate when in most cases it is the patriarchal society\u2019s hand attempting to contain and control the celebrities society loves to hate. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Once you have read Philippa Snow\u2019s It\u2019s Terrible the Things I Have to Do to Be Me, it\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[223,88,1761,3499,899,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-10719","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-feminism","11":"tag-from-the-magazine","12":"tag-review","13":"tag-women"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}