Josh TrentIdentity Transformation Architect and award winning Host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast—a decade-strong show with over 750 episodes and 15M downloads.

Midlife Muse: Why Beauty Culture Fears Powerful Women

9 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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Short excerpt from a YouTube interview (Midlife Muse: Why Beauty Culture Fears Powerful Women) where the guest critiques toxic beauty culture. The guest cites an industry claim that "the ultimate of Beauty is a 15 year old white woman with blonde hair," describes how the beauty economy profits by creating fear in women ("as soon as we get a woman afraid, she'll buy something"), and lists shifting body trends (skinny, big-butts, breasts, thick eyebrows) to show perpetual insufficiency. The guest also argues many adult women remain stuck in a "princess narrative," and Josh Trent prompts discussion of the idea that "no woman is broken" but many are "unmothered."

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The maker of Victoria's Secret and Abercrombie and Fitch said that the ultimate of Beauty is a 15 year old white woman with blonde hair. What toxic beauty culture does is let's create things that women should be afraid of. As soon as we get a woman afraid, she'll buy something and that's a multi trillion dollar system. Skinny trends. Big butts trend. Boobs trend. Thick eyebrows trend. Our bodies trend. You feel like no matter how much you do, you are literally never pretty enough, skinny enough, not thick enough eyebrows. It is overwhelming and it is the life of an average woman. We have 40, 50, 60 year olds and beyond running around in grown women bodies, but still operating from a princess narrative. We as women are raised on this idea of being a princess. I don't believe that deep down a man really wants to be paired with a princess. I don't think it's very attractive in the long run. I have men come up to me every time I get off of a stage saying to me, what you are teaching and talking about is what we are craving as men.
Can you go into the pain of this statement that no woman is broken? Most are just unmothered.