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Price of Beauty and my thoughts on our inner beauty
Ever since the days of Jessica Simpson's reality show with her ex-husband, I've thought she was an airhead. I didn'****ch the show but I heard enough sound bites to make the assumption she was someone that had the beauty but not high on brains.
I am happy to share with you that I was wrong. I bought into the schtick of that show. I had read about Jessica Simpson's new show "The Price of Beauty" and I figured it would be equally superficial and boring until I saw an interview with her. The point of the show is about what is beauty in various cultures in the world. Interesting topic for sure.
One of the things I've always said about this journey of weight loss surgery is that so many post-ops work on the outside yet don't go inside to figure out why and how they use food to manage their emotions. When people stop with the external of losing weight and possibly plastic surgery, they haven't completed the process, in my opinion. The real work is inside. What causes us to turn to food to comfort, soothe, take the edge off our emotions? Unless we do this, we are at risk for weight regain. Again, my opinion but I believe it strongly.
So the first episode was last night. Jessica and a couple of her friends went to Thailand. In Thailand, a couple of ways they define and measure beauty are: (1) Fair skin coloring (ME!!). People that are tan are not considered attractive. To the point that some women use a skin bleacher; and, (2) Inner beauty makes the outer beautiful. That is definitely what I believe. Live inside to our outsides! With those two criteria, I should live there - LOL!!
I look forward to future shows. I hope they are as insightful and meaningful as the first one was.
To our inner and outer beauty!!
Cathy
I am happy to share with you that I was wrong. I bought into the schtick of that show. I had read about Jessica Simpson's new show "The Price of Beauty" and I figured it would be equally superficial and boring until I saw an interview with her. The point of the show is about what is beauty in various cultures in the world. Interesting topic for sure.
One of the things I've always said about this journey of weight loss surgery is that so many post-ops work on the outside yet don't go inside to figure out why and how they use food to manage their emotions. When people stop with the external of losing weight and possibly plastic surgery, they haven't completed the process, in my opinion. The real work is inside. What causes us to turn to food to comfort, soothe, take the edge off our emotions? Unless we do this, we are at risk for weight regain. Again, my opinion but I believe it strongly.
So the first episode was last night. Jessica and a couple of her friends went to Thailand. In Thailand, a couple of ways they define and measure beauty are: (1) Fair skin coloring (ME!!). People that are tan are not considered attractive. To the point that some women use a skin bleacher; and, (2) Inner beauty makes the outer beautiful. That is definitely what I believe. Live inside to our outsides! With those two criteria, I should live there - LOL!!
I look forward to future shows. I hope they are as insightful and meaningful as the first one was.
To our inner and outer beauty!!
Cathy
Cathy
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