Month: March 2023

Jenna Ortega

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JENNA ORTEGA

“If I could delete social media, I would. You’ve got to be able to manage the impact that it’s having on you and realize how much time you’re spending on it or what it’s done to your brain because it’s scary how addictive it can be. I just want to be a well-rounded human and learn as much as I can about the world around me so that, possibly, I can contribute my voice or help create some change in areas of the world that need it. I never want my life to be appearance based. I truly want it to be just feeling-based. I think getting older will be less and less about trying to look a certain way and more about what makes me happy at the end of the day. I want to feel like I’m taking care of my body and giving it what it needs. Learning to give myself a break and relax, that’s what I need to learn how to do. How to stop thinking so much about what I look like at times because at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter. That’s not what life should ever be about. We’re on this planet for such a small blip of time and I just want to make sure it’s a good time at that.” allure

Kate Hudson

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KATE HUDSON

“Stick with love. Even when my heart feels shattered, I never give up on love. I look for the beauty in life and move toward it, always. Mom always said to me, ‘Don’t you ever let a man dim your light.’ So I’ve never defined myself through the way a man sees me, but I can define myself in the unit that we can create together. That is what mom gave to me.” People Magazine

Priyanka Chopra

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PRIYANKA CHOPRA

“Confidence is not something I was born with. When I started doing beauty pageants at 17 years old, I had such low self-esteem. For me, glamour is doing the things that make you feel like the best version of yourself. It’s one of the reasons I got involved in Obagi’s Skinclusion campaign, which aims to shift people’s biases about beauty standards and bring more inclusivity to the beauty industry.” InSTYLE

Zoe Kravitz

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ZOE KRAVITZ

“I don’t know if I could be considered a role model, but I think allowing yourself to be imperfect is probably the best thing you can do for yourself. In this time of social media where people constantly present perfection, that’s really important, so I try to allow myself to be as human as possible. I want to live without fear. That really is my goal in my personal life and in my career. I think fear is crippling and dangerous. It probably creates sickness, this fear of getting in trouble or doing something wrong or not being adored or not being liked. I think, especially as a woman, there’s a lot of pressure to be adored, and that’s not what art’s about either.” ELLE

Ariana DeBose

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ARIANA DeBOSE

“Young people need to know that their dreams are possible. If you squelch a young person’s creativity, you’ve done them a great disservice. I think children really just need to be told that there’s nothing wrong with them, and that they do need their creativity. Their imagination is what’s going to save them. Quite frankly, it’s what’s going to save us. So don’t let anybody tell you that your imagination is not worthy of manifesting.” People

Lizzo

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LIZZO

“I wanted to be accepted so bad; not fitting in really hurt. My defense mechanism was humor. I became the class clown, that’s a kind of perceived confidence. And I have the type of social anxiety where I get louder and funnier the more stressed I am. I know I’m not the only person who experiences extreme negativity thrown at them from the internet, there are people in high school right now who have a whole high school talking about them, and they don’t know how they’re going to get through it. So if they can see me get through it on the level and scale I’m experiencing it, maybe they’ll think they can get through it too. I literally could not afford a $5 Jimmy John sandwich, I couldn’t afford to buy $2 frozen pizza. I’d have to get quarters from strangers for gas money.” Vanity Fair

Lucy Hale

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LUCY HALE

“Feeling like I have to please so many people made me hate myself. I can’t live my life wondering what people think of me. I hope people like me, of course. And I hope people relate to what I’m saying, but if they don’t, that’s not my problem. The way you talk to yourself is the most important thing.” People

Paul Bettany

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PAUL BETTANY

“I was a sort of fool at home in front of my parents, but then at school very bashful. I was the kid that didn’t go out at recess. I really want my children, and I want everybody, to just live authentically as the person they are, and however hard that is, it’s absolutely better than pretending to be something other than you are. Having been through a thousand years of therapy, there’s real power in getting to know yourself… and I have so many things to be grateful for.” People