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September-October 2023

The Beautiful After

In the ’00s, taking gobs of diet pills didn't feel like a choice. In some ways, little has changed

Rachel Ganz

It was the first day of class. I was an eighteen-year-old Broadway geek entering Syracuse University’s (SU) acting program. I spent the morning seated on the floor of “movement” class with 29 other adolescents in front of our teacher, David, a loud and upbeat SU graduate, Broadway star and self-described “hotdog”—an actor who trained with […] More »