The subject of numerous glowing profiles in online and print fashion and lifestyle magazines (including, most recently, in High Snobiety), Lil Miquela's stardom (and her fellow avatars) fascinated because the characters' creators coyly toed the line around "her" self-awareness and their own.
But some of Rakoff's material does leave one questioning her self-awareness.
She sort of knows it but her self-awareness only goes so far.
Satrapi could easily be obnoxious, but she's not - saved by her self-awareness, and her humour.
Modelling for, among others, Abercrombie & Fitch, she says it also taught her self-awareness, independence and how to take rejection.
But then her self-awareness kicked in, and she laughed, as if to say, "Yes, this is very weird".
Her self-awareness allowed her to pursue fruitful relationships, whether those were purely sexual or both sexual and romantic.
Jones, of course, knew that her novels too were not immune from lampoon, but this book declared her self-awareness, the likeable distance so relished by her audience.
Wilton, in short, plays Miss Madrigal as a tough cookie who, through her self-awareness becomes a positive force for good.
But her appeal lies in her self-awareness, as both would-be suffragist and quasi-actress, so she soon feels guilty about having someone else -- a woman no less -- cleaning up after her.
Though in this book she strikes a tricky balance — exposing, while also at times playing on, her audience's prejudices — one comes away from "The Thing Around Your Neck" heartened by her self-awareness and unpredictability.
