Just when we thought Tracee Ellis Ross couldn’t exude any more #BlackGirlMagic, here she is wowing us again. In a video from a 2015 interview that she did with The Breakfast Club, Tracee sounds off on beauty standards in our society:
“We have told women that there is a standard of beauty that makes them think they have to do things to themselves that they aren’t naturally. To look like something that they aren’t naturally. As if who they are is not beautiful.”
Black women, especially, constantly battle a fight between conforming to society’s beauty standards and living in our natural truth. Although this battle might already be over for some, at some point we all need to find an unapologetic way to exist despite what society says. This is the point that Tracee tries to get across.
Some seem to think that this commentary shames women for their personal fashion and beauty choices.
In response, Tracee came back with another video that’s twice as powerful. She denounces the accusations that she’s shaming women while explaining how society is the real issue, rather than us ourselves.
“Perpetuating this idea that women are only objects and worth love if we somehow match up to this ever-changing always unattainable arbitrary standard of beauty,” says Tracee in the video.
If her words don’t inspire you, the comments will:
Watch the full video here:
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