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The Backstory: Suffering for beauty

The Backstory: Suffering for beauty

FromThe Backstory with Patty Steele


The Backstory: Suffering for beauty

FromThe Backstory with Patty Steele

ratings:
Length:
9 minutes
Released:
Jan 2, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

We’ll do anything to look fabulous these days, but we have nothing on our ancestors. They used face creams made from animal and human pee. They glued animal pelts on unusual body parts. And they literally poisoned themselves in their quest for perfect skin and hair. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Released:
Jan 2, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (82)

Love a good, juicy story that goes beyond what we already know? We're talking scandalous presidential family members, a mass murder at a world-famous architect's home, stolen inventions, nude athletes at the first Olympics, compulsive liars, the arrival of the bikini, and so much more. History fanatic Patty Steele tells you the inside backstories you didn’t know you needed to know.