Joan Rivers' style
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L-R: $22.94 and $29.75
For all of Joan Rivers' strangeness - her endless plastic surgeries, her off-color jokes, her lack of dignity at her advanced age of 75 (although her self-deprecating humor might be her saving grace) - she designs quite beautiful, affordable jewelry which she sells online and on QVC.
I think this should have been her outlet from the beginning. Instead of entering the difficult and fickle world of show business, she should have just designed jewelry. She's one of the few "celebrity" designers who actually makes good stuff. Charo is another artist/entertainer who spent years in the limelight as some kind of bimbo, who really was an accomplished classical guitar player.
I think these kinds of women enter show business hoping to promote (or discover) their artistic nature but they end up in the exhausting world of entertainment, having to sing and dance for their dinner. Probably it is fear (of failure) that kept them at it for so long. Lucky for us that they finally found their true vocations.
