Monday, September 21, 2015

Tracee Ellis Ross Talks Hollywood Beauty Standards

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."


“I bet you, there is something you love about your face or about your body. Get a journal and write what it is and what you love about it. Explain and be specific and expressive. Let in all the good feelings about it. And then repeat the exercise with one of the things you don’t like about your body. There is no need to write all the reasons why you don’t like it ... I am sure you have that list in your head. Instead I want you to be gentle and kind in how you are with it and let it talk to you and tell you the story it has to tell you. I bet you whatever part of your body it is that you’re being so hard on, it will have some story to tell you and perhaps it will become an access point for you to find love in yourself.” In the newest issue of @darling, I talk about ways we as women can know and find power in our true, genuine beauty!  Grab it on newsstands now or at darlingmagazine.org! #blackish #DarlingIssue13 #SelfLove
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