Jane and the Curse of Perfection
In the polished world of fashion and film, Jane Fonda became a cover girl early on. Her face—aristocratic, angular, magnetic—graced magazines like Vogue, helping shape the 1960s standard of beauty. But behind the glamour, she suffered.

The pressures to be thin, to be perfect, to be desirable all the time, carved deep into her psyche. Her eating disorder wasn’t about vanity—it was about survival in a world that rewarded women for disappearing into thinness. Later, Jane would call out this toxic culture, naming what had once controlled her.