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In the 1960s, Jule Campbell shattered glass ceilings, transforming a struggling sports magazine into a media empire: the | dG1fWXV1RVI1bzRveXM
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00:00I always worked with the same components sky, sun, sand, girl, swimsuit how did I get started
00:13at Sports Illustrated oh my god that seems like a thousand years ago oh she looks cute in her
00:22bathing suit no not a picture of her bum but a picture where you see her bum now get all the
00:28now feminist women asking me okay and I'm already going straight to hell it wasn't easy working as a
00:36woman in time eight it was run by men for men when I showed the pictures I would have the managing
00:42editor there if he could salivate while he looked at them sometimes I'd want to do this
00:47it was a world that didn't feel safe and I know I would not have stayed if not for Julie I wasn't
00:54into the obviously sexy which made it even sexier she wasn't looking for perfection she was looking
01:01for energy I did not see myself as the all-american girl but Julie did this is her putting a black girl
01:08and a white girl together and saying what what America what she didn't want to objectify women
01:14she wanted to make them people they wanted the sexiest pictures I would take them out so they
01:20never even see them this is what we have been given as our powers and then we were shamed for
01:25using them women will be shamed for everything won't they you've never seen a nipple before well
01:32the Madonna whore thing is totally patriarchal right they don't control what beauty is we do now it's
01:37something that Julie actually set in motion long ago we are all beautiful human beings so take a picture of
01:45it life is all too short it comes stays it goes make a wish she never really got the credit that
01:56she deserved hi Jules we were just talking about how much you loved us and made us feel beautiful and
02:03strong she changed my life one of my babies I never had a boring life a lot of struggles if you
02:16survive them you're stronger
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