How LDS Culture Shapes Utah’s Beauty Standard
Utah is gaining national notoriety for our beauty standard. You know it, you can picture it, because it’s literally on our billboards. Ex-Mormon author and content creator Alyssa Grenfell joins host Ali Vallarta to give her theories on its origins and what it would take to change the culture around beauty.
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