Ah, the age old dilemma: We all want precisely what we can’t have. Those with straight hair want it curly and vice versa. We spend our entire lives growing up using the media as a tool for measuring ourselves, our worth, and what we should look like.
Four women who struggle with issues of body image, aging, weight, and just general "imperfections" refer to this struggle as a “never ending battle” in this video from BuzzFeed. The women volunteer to be made to look like "cover models:" They have their hair and make up done, their bodies are arranged before a camera, and a professional Photoshops the images as they would for a magazine cover.
The results are humbling, and not what you might expect. The women find the images don’t look like them at all; they don’t recognize the people in the photographs. This does not make them feel empowered or beautiful, but rather it makes them question why they ever wanted to look like this in the first place.
We look at the covers of magazines and long to look like these women, but what we don’t know is that we would lose the tiny imperfections that make us who we are in the process.
If you’re "awkward," if you’ve got freckles, curves, or anything you might deem an "imperfection:" Rock these qualities! Because you would miss them if they were gone.
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