I don't want to have to be beautiful all the time. I want to be able to look cruddy in my weekend sweats, with a pimple on my face and pimple cream on top of the pimple. The expectation to always be beautiful bothers me.
Interpretation
Cindy Crawford expresses her desire to be free from societal beauty standards.
In this quote, Cindy Crawford emphasizes the pressure that comes with always needing to appear beautiful. She shares her longing for authenticity and the freedom to look unrefined, like during casual moments at home, highlighting how beauty standards can be burdensome and unrealistic.
In practice
During a panel discussion on body positivity, the quote can be used to represent the struggle against unrealistic beauty expectations.
I'm actually happier with my body now . . . because the body I have now is the body I've worked for. I have a better relationship with it. From a purely aesthetic point of view, my body was better when I was 22, 23. But I didn't enjoy it. I was too busy comparing it to everyone else's.
Beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament; welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower, and thank for it Him.
Look, whenever I hear or read I’m beautiful, I simply don’t understand it … I’m certainly not beautiful in any conventional way. I didn't make my career on beauty.
The most important beauty is not that with which you were born, but the beauty of character which grows through a woman's life and maybe never stops growing.
If you are ever wondering, 'If I have thinner thighs and shinier hair will I be happier?' you just need to meet a group of models because they have the thinnest thighs and the shiniest hair and the coolest clothes and they're the most physically insecure women on the planet.
Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.
To me, we are the most beautiful creatures in the whole world. Black people. And I mean that in every sense.
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