…continued from Part 1
What ideal? What standard of beauty by which every woman is to compare herself?

1. Bodies that are perfect without defect. That pretty much eliminates all of us. If you have an unwanted scar or birth mark, if you have skin disease, acne on your face or spider veins on your legs, if your nose is too big, if you are too tall or too short- these are considered defects by our society.
2. To be beautiful you must be young
now most of us are still young…but may I remind you of something? We may be young, but our youthfulness is shortlived! In fact, have any of you been with your grandmother or great gramma recently? Stop and picture her in your mind. Guess what? Yea, someday you will resemble your gramma or great gramma. Now I know that may be difficult for some of you to fathom, but it’s true. It’s a flower that quickly fades-no exceptions
3. Having a perfect figure.You must be the pefect height, have a large bust, skinny waist, shapely legs, all packaged in a thin body. Again, the majority of us , don’t measure up.
Finally,
4. We must have that covergirl face. We must look like the faces on the magazine racks, or this seasons most glamorous model or movie star.

The fashion industry creates a definition of beautiful so narrow that in comparison the majority of women and girls feel ugly and unattractive.

What’s worse is the deception in this industry. Did you know that most of the models you see in the magazines don’t even look like their picture? More than 95% of photographs have been digitally altered.

Click: HERE to see some eye-opening videos…

Another intriguing clip: Here

If we had this whole entourage- we wouldn’t look so bad ourselves!!

…to be continued…

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