I am all for positive body image
and helping others feel good about themselves no matter how they look.
On a good day, I can totally rock
that feeling myself.
But on bad days, I curse my
wrinkly belly and flabby butt. Like Eva Longoria, I want my twenty-year-old
body back.
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| Photo of Eva Longoria via mysanantonio.com |
Not my twenty-year-old life—just the
body.
Then I feel guilty for not just
loving myself as is, then the guilt multiplies and becomes anger.
I’m happy to see so many actresses
and other celebrity people being honest in the news.
File under “Women who get it”: Patricia Arquette: There's more to women than looks in the Belfast Telegraph.
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| Photo of Patricia Arquette via belfasttelegraph.co.uk/ |
Arquette articulates this issue
well:
I don't want to do anything to my face. But I also reserve the right to do that if I choose to, you know? And without apologising to a million strangers, because even having a conversation about, 'You don't look natural, you did something weird to your face,' we are making it about the way women look…It's none of your f**king business what they look like.
I love that she speaks so honestly
about not knowing if one day she might want to change how she looks surgically,
but how that is totally up to her.
As long as we put so much emphasis
on a woman’s looks, we are only going to move women’s right forward so much.
It’s great that we’re in the
cultural phase of openly speaking about all aspects of body image, but I do
look forward to (hopefully in my lifetime) the time when we won’t need to talk about it anymore…
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