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In @dlumbo 's new documentary, #Manhood, a doctor mournfully warns his patient, “I can fill your penis with filler, but I cannot fill the hole in your heart.” We are in, if not the golden age of penis extensions, then at least a gold-plated one, in which vulnerability is discussed as openly as girth. As the film unfolds, we meet a predatory doctor profiting from insecure men, turning their genitals into lumpen masses of humiliation and guilt. We learn how penis filler has the potential to be the next Viagra; by 2027, the penile-implants market is expected to reach $640.5m. For her column this week, @evawiseman discusses the growing quest for penis enlargements and how this documentary reveals a feminine vulnerability in masculinity's dangling metaphor. Read the full piece at our link in bio.

For her column in this week @evawiseman shares a portrait of a friend’s double mastectomy. Eva’s friend Chloe was in her 20s when she first was diagnosed with breast cancer. She’s had annual mammograms in the two decades since, in which time her life has changed significantly. She had two children, her marriage has dissolved, she’s lost both her parents, her career has expanded. When they told her they’d found cancer again, a different type but, madly, in exactly the same place, she felt oddly calm. However, when a surgeon told her she had a 25–30% risk of developing another cancer. She thought, ‘I don’t want to do this all again’. While the mastectomy proposed in a state of emergency had felt terrifying and impossible, now, with more information, time and autonomy, it seemed suddenly essential. Read Eva’s full piece at our link in bio now. Image of Antonio Canova’s The Venus Italica via Getty Images

Brushes with fame: @jessiecave on her journey from Harry Potter to OnlyFans The actress makes more money plaiting her hair for fetishists on OnlyFans than she ever did from her role in the film franchise, writes @evawiseman . Is this the only way to survive as an artist in 2026? “Since Cave played Lavender Brown in the Harry Potter franchise 18 years ago, she’s written a bittersweet bestselling novel, Sunset, while maintaining parallel careers as an illustrator, actor, comedian and mother, but after a “particularly horrendous” couple of years complicated by deep postnatal depression, professional rejection and grief (following the deaths of a close friend, her husband’s father and her younger brother), her family found themselves living in a one-bed flat in London and struggling to survive. Cave couldn’t afford to take shop work, because it wouldn’t cover the cost of childcare, and she was becoming increasingly aware of how previous tabloid stories were impacting her ability to be cast in films.” “The first things casting directors learned about Cave were the worst things that had ever happened to her. Professional rejections started to feel personal, like the time she had to cut short their first family holiday to audition for a role she didn’t get. Then one evening, out with a friend, while discussing the endless social media requirements of an artist working today, she realised that plaiting her hair on social media was the “least soul-destroying content” she could create. They wondered, idly, if there was any way to monetise that.” Read the full interview at the link in bio - and in our new magazine ✍️ Dan Burn-Forti (@burn4t ) 📸 @evawiseman

The Observer Magazine relaunches today with five different covers featuring five great dames (me and @nigelslater are six and seven I believe). It’s been rebuilt by editor @moshakis and a tiny team of my lovely mates, and we’re all really proud x

At 17, #KylieJenner first admitted to having lip fillers, one UK clinic famously reported a 70% rise in lip-filler enquiries in 24 hours. For her column this week, @evawiseman discusses the shocking allure of facelifts and whether they are becoming tantalisngly normal... Read the full piece at our link in bio.

Family adventures don’t always go to plan. While driving up the A1 to collect a kitchen from a Facebook Marketplace seller, hanger struck @evawiseman and her family. With slim pickings along the A1 (and a surprising number of former Little Chef sites now housing sex shops), they eventually found Noodles Plus. What followed was “slippery and plump” dumplings and Shanghai xiao long bao, all swiftly devoured. Read her full review at the link in our bio. 📸 @sophiaevansphoto

I reviewed a restaurant and considered the sex shops of the A1! Noodles Plus, Cambridge, 10 dumplings out of 10

Skincare is slime! Slime is skincare! In her latest column, @evawiseman delves into the world of slime and how so much of skincare is not about the skin itself, but instead the sensual touch of something slippery, and the ritual attempts at psychic protection and the pretty little pots, all lined up. The introduction of a slime that connects the two, allowing girls with one foot in childhood and the other in the stinking quagmire of adolescence to play with beauty culture, much like a toy cigarette, or syringe, makes dark but perfect sense. Read her full column at our link in bio now.

'If you have to ask what a “demon twink” is, a character type the comedian Cole Escola is frequently employed to play, then, “I’m sorry,” they say with pointed pity, “but it’s too late for you to understand.” Last year, Escola became the first non-binary artist to receive a Tony for leading actor in a play. The play, @ohmaryplay and @ohmaryplayuk , which Escola wrote as well as starred in, is a feverish comedy that reimagines Abraham Lincoln’s wife Mary as a deranged alcoholic diva who would be a cabaret star if only her husband would get out of her goddamn way. The idea was formed in a note Escola wrote in 2009. It read: “What if Abe’s assassination wasn’t such a bad thing for Mary?” 'To write the play, Escola did absolutely no research into Mary’s life, nor the historical context of the story, nor whether Lincoln was actually closeted, or fellated beneath his desk by an aide, as the play suggests. And yet the result became one of Broadway’s biggest hits of the decade and, also, an absolute hoot. In the play, Mary is ignorant of the ongoing Civil War. “How would it look for the first lady of the United States to be flitting around a stage right now in the ruins of war!” Lincoln chides. “How would it look?” Mary shoots back, her voice rising in grim hysteria: “Sensational!” 'Escola and I are meeting in a London hotel where the vast window frames relentless rain, but Escola is impish and sunny, allowing themself only brief moments of terror. Oh, Mary! has opened in the UK – reviews have been fabulous. At one preview “There were a couple of people who walked out,” Escola says, “which made me proud.”' ✍️ @evawiseman 📸 @theatraff

Reflections with @bella_freud . From cult designer to podcast star, @bella_freud sits down with @evawiseman . Pick up a copy of The Observer tomorrow to read the full interview. Photographer @benjaminmcmahon Interview @evawiseman Picture editor @agentortiz Hair and Makeup: @kellyorme_

This weekend in The Observer: @LilyAllen on the aftermath of an album Photographer: @jongorriganphotography Fashion Editor: @jojones_fashion Interview: @evawiseman All make-up by @ginakanemakeup @carenagency Hair by @chadmaxwellhair @aframe_agency Fashion assistant: @samdeaman Picture editor: @agentortiz Art direction/design: @c_ll_ct_v_ly Photography assistant: @louiemire Digital Operator: @dannymillar Lily wears @dior Art director: @c_ll_ct_v_ly Editor: @moshakis Pick up a copy with @theobserveruk on Sunday, or subscribe to read online or via our new app

‘There is a continuing mythology around female blondeness that maintains ingrained stories about what it means to be blonde, while often ignoring the dull, expensive labour it involves for 99% of those who present as such. Like me. Every now and then a friend will say they like my new hair, and I am clinically unable, grimly unwilling, to just say thank you. ‘No, I’ll hiss, you don’t understand. This is not my new hair, this is my hair in limbo. This is not me, this is not intentional, this is an unhappy result of Pantene shampoo, sunlight and the chemical limits of box dyes. You’re embarrassing yourself, Julie. But writing this down is helpful. It reminds me that one of the many complicated privileges of blondeness is that tomorrow, with my Boots meal deal, I can buy a whole new identity.’ ✍️ Read @EvaWisman 's full column on our website - link in bio