Who do you think you are
We live in a world that seems to be perpetuated by images of perfection. It doesn't matter how old you are, magazines, newspapers and television shows all tell you that in order to be acceptable, and feel good about yourself, you must look a certain way.
Celebrity culture has given us all some kind of unattainable benchmark of beauty that it's nigh on impossible for all but a very few privileged women to meet. Airbrushed images of beautiful models and film stars are used to sell us expensive make up and beauty products, feeding our feelings of not quite matching up, not being ideal, and wanting to look like the women we see in the media.
Stop and think about it
It's easy to get caught up in this perfectionism and start to berate yourself for a bit of a tummy, a wrinkle or hair that won't stay where you blow dry it. But if you stopped to think about it for a while, you'd realise that the women we are supposed to idealise are not perfect either.
Professional models are paid so much because they are blessed with stunning bone structure and figures that look good with size six clothes hanging off them. Most of them, with the exception of Kate Moss, perhaps, are in their teens and early twenties. Of course they look great on the catwalk in scraps of nothing. If we all looked that good, they wouldn't be able to command such huge fees for walking up and down along a catwalk, would they? Added to that, your average catwalk model is a beautiful freak of nature - usually taller than most women and very thin with it. We can't all look like that. It would just be boring.
The shelf life of your average model isn't very long. Their 'look' goes out of fashion, they gain a bit of weight, they age, or they have a child. All of these things mean that their careers are on the wane, they aren't so sought after and they have to think of another way to make money. And when you're famous only for your looks, that does tend to narrow your options. For every Linda Evangelista or Naomi Campbell who are still known well into their thirties and forties, there are many forgettable models who may have made it down the catwalk for Versace once back in 2003 but nobody hears about them anymore.
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