"A good margarita, a good red wine, I like expensive alcohol, but not a lot of it. I don't like to throw up"
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Denise Richards turns “taste” into a small act of self-protection. The opening is pure aspirational lifestyle: margarita, red wine, expensive alcohol. Then she punctures it with a blunt, almost adolescent punch line: “I don’t like to throw up.” That snap from curated indulgence to bodily reality is the engine here. It’s funny because it refuses the usual celebrity script of effortless glamour or faux-virtuous abstinence. She isn’t selling purity; she’s selling control.
The intent reads as boundary-setting disguised as a party anecdote. Richards signals that she knows the status language of luxury (good, expensive) but wants to opt out of the chaos that often shadows it. “Not a lot of it” is doing the real work: a line in the sand for someone living under a microscope where excess becomes headline, meme, cautionary tale. The subtext is that moderation isn’t about morality; it’s about preserving dignity, health, and the next day’s obligations. In celebrity culture, hangovers aren’t just private misery - they can become public narrative.
Contextually, it lands in the post-2000s celebrity ecosystem where women, especially actresses, are policed from both directions: condemned for partying too hard, mocked for being too careful. Richards threads that needle with a shrugging honesty. She claims pleasure without performing self-destruction, and she does it with a line that yanks the conversation back to the unglamorous truth: your body always collects the tab.
The intent reads as boundary-setting disguised as a party anecdote. Richards signals that she knows the status language of luxury (good, expensive) but wants to opt out of the chaos that often shadows it. “Not a lot of it” is doing the real work: a line in the sand for someone living under a microscope where excess becomes headline, meme, cautionary tale. The subtext is that moderation isn’t about morality; it’s about preserving dignity, health, and the next day’s obligations. In celebrity culture, hangovers aren’t just private misery - they can become public narrative.
Contextually, it lands in the post-2000s celebrity ecosystem where women, especially actresses, are policed from both directions: condemned for partying too hard, mocked for being too careful. Richards threads that needle with a shrugging honesty. She claims pleasure without performing self-destruction, and she does it with a line that yanks the conversation back to the unglamorous truth: your body always collects the tab.
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| Topic | Wine |
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