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9781419763120

Toxic: Women, Fame, and the Tabloid 2000s

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    9781419763120

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    1419763121

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2025-03-11
  • Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

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Summary

A scathing reexamination of the lives of nine female celebrities in the 2000s—Britney, Paris, Lindsay, Aaliyah, Janet, Amy, Kim, Chyna, and Jen—and the sexist, exploitative culture that let them down

Welcome to celebrity culture in the early aughts: the reign of Perez Hilton, celebrity sex tapes, and dueling tabloids fed by paparazzi who were willing to do anything to get the shot.

The internet was still the Wild West: slut-shaming, fat-shaming, and revenge porn were all fair game, and celebrity was seen as a commodity to be consumed. And for the famous women of this era, they were never as popular—or as vulnerable—as when they were in crisis.

In Toxic, journalist Sarah Ditum tells the stories of nine famous women who defined this era and explores how they were devoured by fame, how they attempted to control their own narratives, and how they succeeded or (more often) failed.

Whatever you think you already know, leave it at the door. Toxic reveals these women neither as pure victims nor as conniving strategists, but as complex individuals trying to navigate celebrity while under attack from a vicious and fast-changing media. It’s time to come to terms with how these iconic women and their experiences living under the public gaze shaped the way we see ourselves, our bodies, our relationships, and our aspirations. We are all products of the toxic decade.

Author Biography

Sarah Ditum is a freelance writer and literary reviewer who contributes to The Times, the Guardian, the Observer, the Spectator, Mail on Sunday, and UnHerd. She writes a monthly column on pop music for Critic magazine and is also a contributor to Graydon Carter’s Air Mail. She lives in London.

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