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Guest Essay

By Marisa Meltzer

Ms. Meltzer is a senior staff writer at Vanity Fair and the author of “It Girl: The Life and Legacy of Jane Birkin.”

I’m a writer who covers fashion and beauty. That doesn’t mean that my job is to be beautiful or to look young. But reporting on that world sometimes feels a little masochistic.

I spend a lot more time than most with the world’s most beautiful people — Gwyneth Paltrow, Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Christie Brinkley. I’ve learned, from them, that feeling pretty is a difficult thing to preserve; being professionally pretty is even........

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