"My weakness is wearing too much leopard print"
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A confession that doubles as a wink: Jackie Collins calling leopard print her "weakness" is less self-critique than brand management. The line performs humility without actually surrendering any power. Leopard print is already coded as loud, erotic, a little dangerous, occasionally dismissed as "tacky" by people invested in quieter status symbols. Collins grabs that loaded fabric and wears it on purpose, turning what could be a punchline into a flag.
The intent is almost certainly comic, but the subtext is serious. By choosing a "flaw" that reads as excess, she refuses the more socially approved script of female self-effacement: the weakness is not insecurity, neediness, or apology. It's appetite. Too much pattern, too much presence. The joke works because it swerves away from the confessional culture that demands women offer up wounds to be believed. Collins offers style instead, insisting that glamour can be a form of autonomy.
Context matters: Collins built a career writing high-gloss, sexually frank novels about power, money, and women who don't ask permission. Leopard print fits that universe like set dressing that becomes character. It's camp-adjacent but not ironic; it's armor with cleavage. In a culture that loves to police women's "taste" as a proxy for their morality, "too much leopard print" is a mischievous refusal to be toned down. The line tells you exactly how she wants to be read: not as respectable, but as unapologetically visible.
The intent is almost certainly comic, but the subtext is serious. By choosing a "flaw" that reads as excess, she refuses the more socially approved script of female self-effacement: the weakness is not insecurity, neediness, or apology. It's appetite. Too much pattern, too much presence. The joke works because it swerves away from the confessional culture that demands women offer up wounds to be believed. Collins offers style instead, insisting that glamour can be a form of autonomy.
Context matters: Collins built a career writing high-gloss, sexually frank novels about power, money, and women who don't ask permission. Leopard print fits that universe like set dressing that becomes character. It's camp-adjacent but not ironic; it's armor with cleavage. In a culture that loves to police women's "taste" as a proxy for their morality, "too much leopard print" is a mischievous refusal to be toned down. The line tells you exactly how she wants to be read: not as respectable, but as unapologetically visible.
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