response to Michele

I think that women are so concerned with how they look that it is almost unhealthy. I feel as though women don't really express their true beauty noadays because of all the make-up, plastic surgeries, clothing that sucks you in to appear thinner, and clothing in general making you appear a certain way. Magazines and TV shows and films have such a way about them trying to make a woman look perfect, but the truth of the matter is that there is no such thing! As you probably know, from the kind of work that you do, even the most beautiful movie star has some type of flaws. But the way that she is portrayed after being photo shopped and made to look tanner and thinner she "appears" perfect. This is the problem with society, we make women feel as though they have to present themselves as though they are perfect. My male friends tell me all the time that they hate when girls wear too much make up and that when they wake up to their girlfriend the next morning she looks like a completely different person until she reapplies her make-up again. I would never want to be seen like that, I want to be seen as how I really look, because truthfully, it's way too much work to have to constantly be perfect haha. I have so much respect for full figured models because they are not ashamed to hide their bodies and want to cater to the "not-so-perfect" crowd. I'm glad that these things even exist, otheriwise we would be forced to look at "perfect" people all day long, which would be a bore.