Pressure to be Perfect
I was talking to a few friends from church over the weekend while enjoying dinner at Friday’s. During the course of the conversation my sister-friend Anita sighed heavily and said, “I have to be honest y’all. I feel intimidated by the images of sexiness our men are accustomed to.”
Anita, whom we call Nita for short, is very beautiful, petite, and somewhat shy. She was wearing her long naturally curly hair in a high bun with a t-shirt and jeans. Her makeup-free caramel skin doesn’t have a single blemish on it and yet, she admitted to feeling less-than-beautiful.
“It’s almost like this pressure to be perfect,” she explained and shared how a false beauty ideal is marketed and sold as real these days. “I can’t compete with the glam squads of Rihanna, Beyoncé, Nicki Minaj, and the other video vixens all over TV and magazine covers,” she complained.
But even pop stars, though they are paid to act like they feel confident all the time, really don't.
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