The World We Live In: The Vanity Fair Cover

The February edition of Vanity Fair magazine features a cover titled the “Hollywood Issue”.  This cover has beautiful, talented, up & coming actresses who are predicted to make their mark in Hollywood over the next year.  They have been tapped as the new ‘IT’ girls.  All the new ‘IT’ girls are Caucasian, and most with blonde hair and blue eyes. This is a very narrow picture of what Hollywood has to offer.  Can this be deemed an oversight by the editors?  Is this just a sense of entitlement by those in power to avoid any other look?  Or is this just the world we live in?

I believe that this is just the world we live in.  My question is - why do we care?  I guess, because most of us have been programmed to feel this is the epitome of American beauty and a lot of us have bought into this as being a standard we must strive to achieve.  If we don’t believe it and have not bought into it, then we still feel bombarded by it.  Hence, we go get hair extensions, colored contacts and may even go as far as to bleach our skin.  This type of physical masking can take us further away from who we really are.  The Divine Beauty that dwells within all of us.  Many of us go to great lengths to distance ourselves from the beauty that is native and indigenous.

The Vanity Fair cover is reflecting back to us the mass consciousness belief, which we are all responsible for.  We are the ones that give Vanity Fair the go ahead to delete many of us from the beauty issue.  We all have a voice; we can stop buying into the deceit by owning our own beauty and authenticity.  Leave Vanity Fair on the shelf and reach for the mirror.  Celebrate your beauty and uniqueness.  Shine with shameless authenticity and own who you are and what you look like.   Who cares what Vanity Fair thinks?  This is their reality and it really has nothing to do with me, you, or our own lives.

Denial of the self provides fertile ground for low self-esteem and limiting beliefs.  We are all human. We all come in different shapes and sizes, which are celebrated by various publications out there.  We have choices, we have free will.  Choose to pick up a magazine that looks like you, talks like you and makes you feel good.  Let Vanity Fair be great; keep your five dollars in your pocket and work towards finding the divinity and greatness that is in you.  By doing that you send a message to the Universe that you count, that you are beautiful and this in turn will render that ‘Vanity Fair’-thinking obsolete.

Let go of self-hatred and get closer to the real you.