Women with "defects" in appearance against a society with a craving for impeccability

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“There are no ugly women, only lazy ones,” said Helena Rubinstein, who opened the world's first beauty salon. And there are ugly and not lazy, but calm and unfussy, who are satisfied with everything in themselves. This is the truth of life and reality without gloss.

One of my friends from birth had large protruding ears. She did not wear ponytails, afraid of being confused with Cheburashka, and dreamed that when she grew up, she would definitely do plastic surgery to sew her ears to her head. As a child, it seemed ridiculous and unrealistic, but she fulfilled her dream. She grew up, saved up money and her ill-fated ears were sewn to where they should be better and more beautiful. And she was happy! And she finally began to take her hair, to come up with different hairstyles that she could not afford before.

Actresses Emma Watson and Kate Hudson, whom nature has awarded protruding ears
Actresses Emma Watson and Kate Hudson, whom nature has awarded protruding ears
Actresses Emma Watson and Kate Hudson, whom nature has awarded protruding ears

Sometimes I even feel a little sorry that I don't have such ears. If they interfered with me, I would also sew them on and be happy. Although, no, I'm lying. If I had big ears, I would be afraid to go under the knife, but I would diligently press them to my head with headbands, push pins, double-sided tape or something like that. But I always sincerely and with admiration look at women who do not adjust their appearance to generally accepted standards of beauty. And ordinary and, especially, famous.

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If you live on the periphery and work as a door sales manager or a cashier in a supermarket, then any ears and teeth are forgiven for you. But if you are a star, then everyone together will be perplexed. Well, what is she, really? There is money, but you can remove this hump (slit / mole / hollow). But these same advisers with aspiration will talk about the rich inner world and the beauty of the soul...

The gap between the front teeth has become the "calling card" of Vanessa Paradis
The gap between the front teeth has become the "calling card" of Vanessa Paradis

Take, for example, Vanessa Paradis, who turns 50 this year. She became a star at 14, and she has been reproached all her life for not cleaning her "ugly" slit. But she doesn’t interfere with her, why would she suddenly bend under a changing world?

Read the comments under the articles about Vanessa, where there is a photo with her wide smile. There will be a parade of white coats, which “with her money” would definitely rush to the dentist in the first free window. There will certainly be those who will call the ugliness of a fragile French woman who accepts herself for who she is, in that the god-like and coveted Johnny Depp has left her. After all, he did not go to anyone, but to the one who was later called the standard of female beauty.

On the Deviantart service, the author retouched a photo of Vanessa Paradis, showing how she would look without wrinkles and with perfect teeth (photo: www.deviantart.com/caterinazito)
On the Deviantart service, the author retouched a photo of Vanessa Paradis, showing how she would look without wrinkles and with perfect teeth (photo: www.deviantart.com/caterinazito)

In an interview with Harper's Bazaar magazine, Paradis responded to all the critics:

“Why should I fix my teeth? I was born with them! And then, through them I can spit water. It is very comfortable!"

So Vanessa gently and ironically indicated that her natural teeth are completely satisfied with her, they do not interfere with her life and even bring benefits. And who does not like it - all in the garden. By the way, in French, the diastema is called "les dents du bonheur" or "happy teeth". So why deprive yourself of this “happiness”?

Do you know what is the most curious, funny and inexplicable?

First, when a celebrity eliminates what is considered a defect by public opinion, they will immediately begin to criticize her for becoming like everyone else. This is constantly written under the photo of the thinner Adele, who was not ashamed of her fullness only by the lazy and also puffy.

Singer Adele in 2010 and 2021
Singer Adele in 2010 and 2021

Second: Instagram oozes inspiring girls who make money from webinars and marathons, where they teach other girls (attention!) To accept themselves for who they are. At the same time, the gurini themselves look like they came off the assembly line of one plastic surgeon. Eyebrows, nails, sponges, teeth, breasts - all according to one pattern. And the girls in droves bring money to motivating goddesses, who have only the color of their eyes left, if it is not covered with lenses.

It's sad, but everyone wants successful success, which supposedly comes with a certain appearance.

photo: instagram @_iza_bell
photo: instagram @_iza_bell

And what is your opinion about the "defects" of appearance? Fix or leave?

Posted by the woman who doesn't get her brows and nails but saves up for dental aligners

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