{"id":108115,"date":"2026-04-15T14:05:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zine.modalova.com\/zine\/?p=108115"},"modified":"2026-04-15T14:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:05:06","slug":"loana-name-icon-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/us.modalova.com\/zine\/loana-name-icon-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Loana, a name, an icon, and a woman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The death of Loana shook us all. Yet, with her struggles against depression, addiction, and an unhealthy exposure that destroyed her, her end was not a surprise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women as a Battleground<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This title is taken from the eponymous play by Romanian author Mat\u00e9i Visniec. Although the subject of his work does not feature a bimbo, it accurately reflects what women must endure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since her entrance into the loft, where her image was previously constructed as the perfect Nice bimbo, Loana has been dissected from every angle<\/strong>. When we pay attention to how she was treated in the media, we realize that, indeed, nothing is right with women. Too beautiful, she’s sexualized; too fat, she’s destroyed. Too naive, she’s mocked; too fragile, she’s pushed around; too loud, she’s called hysterical; too brash, she’s silenced\u2026 in short, aside from when she presents herself in a perfect photo on Instagram (and even then, there are haters everywhere), there is always something wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From a violent and sudden exposure, we see the radiant girl from the South upon her exit from the loft, where she had gained everything: fame, a story that could have been a love story, money, and most importantly, what she needed: recognition and love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a result, Loana sank into depression, drugs, and addictions. While viewers experienced the Loana era as a historic television event, we wonder how she, alone in the face of this tsunami of fame and criticism, lived through the shock of being hyper-medicated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even death doesn’t stop the fascination with her body. Even on Instagram, her body was filmed wrapped in a white cover as it left her building, ready to go to the hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All Witnesses, All Guilty? The Loana Drama<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Even before she became famous, Endemol, the production company of Loft Story, had rewritten her story. From her audition for the very first reality show, her image would escape her, and a new narrative would be constructed for her, especially as they set out to label her with all the worst tags that can be assigned to a woman<\/strong>, a young girl seeking fame, forgetting that she was only 24, a mother, and that she is smart and sensitive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Loana is the unfortunate example of the misfortunes that can occur in a woman’s life<\/strong>: the portrayal of her intimacy, the sexualization of her body, a rape, and mockery of her traumas. Is it as if traumatizing famous or rich women is more ethical and acceptable?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On a similar note, I recommend the podcast from the show Les pieds sur terre titled \u201cThe Kim K Heist\u201d <\/strong>which gives a voice to the robber of Kim Kardashian who is praised for having tied her up and stolen from the star. At the trial of the thieves, we hear Kim recounting her fear of dying and that she was thinking of her children. Of course, she is human and a mother. As if money and fame were a barrier against trauma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What Can We Learn from Loana’s Death?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

That we destroy ourselves living under the pressure of others, that we consume women, their traumas, their bodies, and everything we can to adore them while simultaneously throwing them to the wolves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s as if Loana maintained a toxic relationship with the public and television, while at the same time, she inspired so many young girls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her death also revealed a new face of society: a more compassionate face that mourns her fate, realizing that nothing was done to prevent her from sinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the media, there is indeed more attention paid to women. Women are more attentive to one another, there is more compassion and support in general.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, for the loft icon, hell was other people. And hell was also herself.<\/strong> Like a duality she could no longer bear. The image she had to project, the image that the public used, the image that was thrown back at her, and finally, the image that no one wanted to see of her, that of a woman who suffered and who benefited from a system that ultimately killed her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She surely paved the way for women who could, as mindsets have evolved, embrace their bimbo side and play a pseudo-innocence or stupidity to transform it into financial success, entrepreneurship, or other ventures. We think of Nabilla, for example, and those who followed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bimbos have evolved, and so have mindsets. Appearing stupid and accepting to be perceived as such for money and success is ultimately the smartest path these women take, judged for their bodies and their perceived stupidity. While they do nothing but transform a vulnerability and a need for recognition into financial or emotional security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bimbos, These Women Who Change the World<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Bimbos, the “cagoles,” have often been denounced as women who are too feminine, even anti-feminist, while if we look closer, it is precisely they who are evolving society and the way we perceive women, sometimes, like Loana, at their own expense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image at the top: \u00a9<\/strong>Loana-AFP <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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