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quinaraWatching a documentary about a glamour model and her daughter, including a scene in a hotel room where, just after they've drained some more of the fluid from Mum's boobs after surgery, they sit down and play Scrabble.
On BBC iPlayer: Glamour Models, Mum and Me.
Watching this, it struck me that Alicia Douvall has probably always been very clever, only struck by trauma and lack of opportunities into a disrespected job. She knows exactly what she needs to do to stay secure financially (when she has a problem with an implant she spends about two days cancelling photoshoots - then turns around and sells the story to a tabloid), and has raised her daughter to be conscientious and open-minded. Even though she's scared of her daughter slipping into a new world she doesn't understand (of Biology! and Macbeth!), and wants her to stay in the world she knows of modelling/acting/singing/performing, she clearly hasn't skimped on her education and is willing to let her become who she wants. Especially by the end of the documentary, which is wonderful.
(And if she's hoodwinked me through this documentary, then clearly she's even cleverer than I'm giving her credit for.)
I think you'll enjoy it, UK friends who can see it, so check it out!
On BBC iPlayer: Glamour Models, Mum and Me.
Watching this, it struck me that Alicia Douvall has probably always been very clever, only struck by trauma and lack of opportunities into a disrespected job. She knows exactly what she needs to do to stay secure financially (when she has a problem with an implant she spends about two days cancelling photoshoots - then turns around and sells the story to a tabloid), and has raised her daughter to be conscientious and open-minded. Even though she's scared of her daughter slipping into a new world she doesn't understand (of Biology! and Macbeth!), and wants her to stay in the world she knows of modelling/acting/singing/performing, she clearly hasn't skimped on her education and is willing to let her become who she wants. Especially by the end of the documentary, which is wonderful.
(And if she's hoodwinked me through this documentary, then clearly she's even cleverer than I'm giving her credit for.)
I think you'll enjoy it, UK friends who can see it, so check it out!