Beauty is a strange thing. Everyone responds to it, but it means something totally different to every single person on this planet. We all think differently about what being beautiful actually is, and we have our own tastes too, of course. Yet most of us want to be considered beautiful since our culture places a ton of significance on looking good. Beauty is definitely a desirable characteristic and we often think that if we're pretty, life is a million times easier. Studies have shown that people who are considered beautiful are thought to be more trustworthy and competent than less good-looking people (meaning there's more career and otherwise opportunities), Of course, we'd all love to be more attractive to the opposite sex. Here are 12 celebs that are generally considered gorgeous and the inspiring things they have to say about beauty and what the concept means to them.
12 Christina Aguilera
Christina Aguilera is the woman who sang her heart out on the song "Beautiful", so you know she has her strong opinions about the matter. She believes it's important to embrace everything about you, flaws and all: "It's important to embrace the things you might define as so-called imperfections — because something that you might call an imperfection, someone else might find so amazing and so beautiful. It's all in how you embrace yourself, your faults, and your mistakes in life."
11 Jennifer Aniston
Jennifer Aniston was named People's Most Beautiful Woman Alive in 2016, so naturally she has a few opinions about the subject. To the magazine, she said that beauty is: "Taking on challenges and not feeling shame for things that haven't gone the way you felt they should have. And not feeling like a failure or allowing people to critique your life and make you feel like you've failed at something. That's just toxic noise." If there's anyone who truly believes you should feel comfortable in your own skin, we get the feeling that it's the girl we love to call Rachel.
10 Lupita Nyong'o
Lupita Nyong'o talks about beauty in a pretty sweet way: “I come from a loving, supportive family, and my mother taught me that there are more valuable ways to achieve beauty than just through your external features. She was focused on compassion and respect, and those are the things that ended up translating to me as beauty." She went on to explain that while looking good may give you more chances in life, she also thinks that being "friendly" can get you pretty far, too. We definitely love that idea.
9 Kate Winslet
Kate Winslet is one of the those people that seems pretty confident about who she is, and this quote reflects that: “I’m really happy in my own skin. There’s a lot of judgment that can come from outside sometimes, and there’s media scrutiny that is placed on a lot of women in the public eye, and I just couldn’t care less. I really couldn’t care less." She feels there's a real sense of freedom in no longer giving a crap what people think or say about you, and while she might have thought that back in her 20s, today she can definitely say she really doesn't care.
8 Mindy Kaling
The star of her own sitcom and all-around funny girl who is totally BFF material is known for keeping it real about everything. She, of course, is super cool when it comes to who she looks: she even posts photos of herself in Spanx on Instagram. She has said, “I find it very sad that so many girls who look up to me are young women of color who have been told that they are ugly, and who feel that they are not normal… I think it’s so important that women look like me find that they can be beautiful or objects of love, attention and affection.”
7 Amy Adams
The actress believes you should embrace who you naturally are instead of trying to fit in and offer the world what you think everyone wants or expects from you. She felt everything change when she stopped trying to conform and change her hair color:"I feel like my career changed and my life opened up once I stopped getting highlights and embraced being a redhead. I look up to classic beauties like Grace Kelly and Katharine Hepburn. I love to look at mature women and see how beauty can evolve."
6 Emma Stone
Emma Stone makes some pretty solid points about what it takes to feel good about yourself: "I'm actively working hard on learning to appreciate yourself no matter what. If what someone else says can easily derail you, it means your sense of self isn't that firmly established in the first place. It's an inside job." She has said that anyone who insults you or tries to make you feel crappy is really just insecure. But we love this quote on beauty the most (for obvious reasons): "I'm into grilled cheese. Grilled cheese makes me feel beautiful!"
5 Drew Barrymore
Drew Barrymore has been through a lot in her life, so her advice seems pretty sage. After all, she started working as a child, dealt with a drug and alcohol addiction, and has been in all kinds of relationships before becoming a mom and kick-butt businesswoman. She has said, "I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect happiness."
4 Sophia Loren
Sophia Loren has been considered to be one of the most beautiful women in the world, and she points out that believing in your beauty has to come from within. It's probably easier to trust your own beauty if everyone agrees that you're beautiful, but, it's important to keep in mind that if you find what makes you feel beautiful, the right people will agree. Here's the real quote: "Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.”
3 Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lopez considers the whole package when it comes to beauty, which is something we can all relate to. Don't we all know someone who is physically beautiful but then opens their mouth and seems less so? The singer has said, "Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body, and spirit." That being said, the star does do what she can to look good, and it's working. She has mentioned skipping the booze and getting plenty of sleep as keys to maintaining her glowing skin and gorgeous body.
2 Salma Hayek
Salma Hayek is another star who mentions that you have to think that you're beautiful. It's such a simple truth and yet for some reason, it can take us a lot of time to really believe it. Here's the money quote: “People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves. Behold yourself as beautiful.”
1 Halle Berry
Halle Berry makes it clear that just because everyone thinks she's gorgeous doesn't mean that her life experience is different from anyone else's. We all have the same emotions at our core, and theoretically a lot of our experiences are a lot more alike than we might assume. She has said, “Let me tell you something—being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.”
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