Tracee Elliss Ross recently sat down for an interview with Glamour magazine, where she talked about Hollywood beauty standards. The magazine quotes her as follows:
"One minute we’re supposed to be flat-chested, the next we’re supposed to have big butts. Who the f–k can keep up. It’s a different picture every day, and it teaches us to be so focused on achieving the standards other people set that we have no time left to put toward giving ourselves the life we want. I’ve always had a thin frame, but when you hit 40 and eat French fries three days in a row, it’s like, ‘What happened.' There are things about my body that I don’t love, but I’m not trying to look perfect every day — I’m trying to look like me!
At the NAACP Image Awards, some guy who’d won made a comment [in his speech] about his girlfriend’s ass and what she should wear so that people could see her ass. It was infuriating. I don’t shy away from my sensuality as a woman — I was in a very sexy dress that night — but it doesn’t define me. So when I accepted my award, I felt compelled to say: ‘I am more than my parts, and we all are.’ I want my body to be beautiful, but our bodies are not objects."
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