"I think health is another exceedingly important thing"
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Understatement is doing heavy lifting here. Joan Collins, a woman whose public image has long been engineered around glamour, sharp dialogue, and unapologetic self-display, drops a line that feels almost comically plain: "I think health is another exceedingly important thing". The phrase "another" is the tell. It implies an ongoing list of priorities in a life where the world assumes the list begins and ends with beauty, fame, and the performance of confidence. She’s quietly rearranging the hierarchy: yes, style matters, success matters, but there’s a baseline requirement no camera can fake.
The sentence is padded with softeners ("I think") and safe intensifiers ("exceedingly"), which makes it sound polite, even throwaway. That’s the strategy. In celebrity culture, earnestness often gets punished as vanity or complaint. So Collins wraps a hard truth in conversational wrapping paper: aging is real, the body collects receipts, and the fantasy of effortless vitality has an expiration date.
Context matters because Collins is not just an actress; she’s a durable brand who outlasted eras that treated women as perishable. The banality becomes its own form of resistance. She isn’t offering a dramatic confession or a wellness sermon. She’s doing something more subversive for a star built on spectacle: normalizing the private infrastructure of survival. Health isn’t inspirational here; it’s logistical. And in that flatness is the point.
The sentence is padded with softeners ("I think") and safe intensifiers ("exceedingly"), which makes it sound polite, even throwaway. That’s the strategy. In celebrity culture, earnestness often gets punished as vanity or complaint. So Collins wraps a hard truth in conversational wrapping paper: aging is real, the body collects receipts, and the fantasy of effortless vitality has an expiration date.
Context matters because Collins is not just an actress; she’s a durable brand who outlasted eras that treated women as perishable. The banality becomes its own form of resistance. She isn’t offering a dramatic confession or a wellness sermon. She’s doing something more subversive for a star built on spectacle: normalizing the private infrastructure of survival. Health isn’t inspirational here; it’s logistical. And in that flatness is the point.
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