This poster from her film 'Barbarella' (1968). This is what Dyer would describe as secondary media as it promotes this film. This embodies Dyer's idea that an important aspect of her star image is sex. She is positioned in a sexualised way for a heteronormative gaze by wearing revealing clothing, hair and makeup looking perfect and positioned central front.

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She speaks about how much she enjoyed working with his and how she idealised him as a person. This touching tribute humanises Jane as it portrays how she also experiences everyday hardships and feelings, just like her fans and followers.

She has used her platform as a safe space for others to grieve and appreciate Robert Redford as a community.

Fonda was interviewed by Oprah Winfrey in July 2000, in an article from O, The Oprah Magazine.

As Richard Dyer writes in his work surrounding the 4 aspects of celebrity, an interview would fall under secondary media. Interviews are commonly used for publicity and create discussion, and Oprah tends to obtain deeper, more personal information from celebrities. For example, Whitney Houston opened up to Oprah about her experience with abuse (2009), as well as her open approach to the Harry and Meghan interview (2021).

In the attached interview, Fonda tells of how she is not afraid of death ‘at all’, when Oprah questions her on the topic. As seen below:

“Oprah: Is there anything about the third act that scares you, Jane?

Jane: No.

Oprah: Not even death itself?

Jane: Not at all. I feel so full. I just feel good. I'm 62, and I'm finding my voice. I mean, if that's not fabulous—

Oprah: That is!”

Typically older Hollywood stars, especially women, may feel they have a ‘sell by’ date as such - once they begin to visibly age, they could become lesser-known as well as gradually unpopular. The fact that Fonda does not fear death shows that she arguably embraces the process of aging. Conclusively, the talk of death itself is also deeply personal and helps to humanise huge stars like Fonda herself.

For most of Fonda's career, she was viewed as a sex symbol, often better known for her exercise videos than her acting career. However, this film, along with others such as Book Club (2018), demonstrates that her acting career continued past the age of stereotypical beauty in the eyes of the media.

The Book itself is a reflection on her journey as an actress, activist and a feminist. It touches on personal topics about her struggles, but in this scenario, we will focus on her self-image issues and relationship to fitness.

She admits that when she entered the fitness sphere she thought of it as a performative aesthetic, which can be seen through looking at her 1982 book 'Jane Fonda's Workout Book', where she still emphasises motivation and positivity for women, but includes diet tips and weight stigmatisation. In 'My Life So Far', she reflects on the role she played in perpetuating stereotypes of fitness, but how, over time she learnt that the more she taught, the more that exercise could be truly empowering. After her 1980 book, she changed from diet culture, performance oriented fitness, into representation and inclusive fitness.

When thinking about Fonda's 'Star Image', we can see that it has remained relatively stable. Her book acts as star self-representation, where she admits that fitness, activism and feminism have been her guiding topics throughout all of her work, however as she learnt more and understood more about representation and fitness, she put this at the forefront of her work. Displaying the meaning of Jane Fonda the star, and also how she has managed this over time.

Henry Fonda for President is a film mostly about life of Jane's father, who was an Hollywood actor, and the culture of US. Exploring the cultural conflict within the nation in the past. The film constructs a "parallel history" of America by analysing her father's personal story and his famous film roles, with significant historical events and societal shifts than occurred during the time period.

Her commentaries within the film, reveals her attitude on history and her interest on current political issues, reflected within the film by using Henry Fonda's career to interrogate the past American issue and compare them to current one's, highlighting Jane's political consciousness is present within the creation of the film.

Looking 'equally as glamourous as the younger models' she walked alongside

other big names such as Helen Mirren (80) and Gillian Anderson (57) to show off their 'age-defying looks'.

She could be be criticised for this, however, as a false representation and a bad role model. This is because she has had plastic surgery, so not demonstrating or representing natural ageing beauty - a demographic even more ignored by the industry.

"The famous activist has shown us that one does not have to be born a finished product to make change– she’s fought hard and transformed herself seemingly daily." - Xian Horn, 2024 in "Good Girl No More! The Evolution & Legacy of Jane Fonda: Privilege, Purpose & Progress".

The link to her 1980s workout tapes gives this a sense of nostalgia, while also telling the audience that she is still relevent today; she is engaged with a prominent company.

2020 - Jane Fonda showed up to the Oscars with her natural grey hair and this is important due to her star image being constantly connected to her beauty. By her embracing her natural ageing she is spreading a positive message to women that its okay to age and not look the same as you did when you were in your 30s, especially with how ageing is often negatively thought of. Short hair - rebellion against the beauty ideals that people think she should be - although she is glamorous it is against the norm of femininity with women with long hair.

She uses her and 3 other women's (including Pamela Anderson) sex appeal.

She talks about using her and her friends sex appeal for good, for the environment.

Getting her original image as a star to work with her current mission of being a climate activist, rather than them being seen in opposition and working against each other.

Raised 800,000 in the bowling event evening.

Evening dubbed 'three generations of Fonda on film'

A remaining emphasis and interest in her family presence and identity.

Found on Entertainment Industry Database.