10 Celebrities Who Overcame Prejudice and Learned to Love What Nature Gave Them

It is common to find people with complexes about their own face or body, with the desire to change those “imperfections” through plastic surgery as soon as they have the chance. However, many times we don’t realize that what looks ugly can actually be a unique characteristic capable of pleasing other people. This also happens with the famous, because they also have their insecurities like us, anonymous.

O awesome.club decided to tell the stories of some celebrities who hated something about their appearance, but who learned to live with such “defects” after discovering that those traits had their charm and integrated the natural beauty of each one of them.

At the end of the article, you can see a bonus about a person who teaches why loving ourselves is so important.

The American singer is one of the hottest of today since she rose to fame with the hit I Kissed a Girl, over ten years ago. But despite always presenting herself as a star of the first magnitude, Katy does not like to be seen without makeup. But she learned to overcome the barrier: “There are several things that are uncomfortable to show, especially my face without makeup. However, I realized that the time has come to show my audience that no one needs to be perfect to make their dreams come true. I accept the fact that I don’t dance that well. I accept the fact that I have horrible lower teeth. That’s what makes me who I am, and for some reason, it’s worked,” she revealed.

Miley Cyrus grew up in the spotlight and, at age 16, was already the protagonist of the Disney Channel series that took her to worldwide fame. Needing to follow the beauty standards imposed by the paper and the industry ended up making the artist feel uncomfortable with her body: “They made me see myself as someone I wasn’t, and that probably caused a certain body dysmorphia, because they left me beautiful every day for so long that when I left the show I was like, ‘Who the hell am I? Me?’” she said.

Over time, however, she discovered her true personality and understood that she doesn’t need to fit into any stereotype to be loved: “I’ll probably never be a poster girl for any traditional beauty brand. But my dream was never to sell lip gloss. My dream is to save the world,” she pointed out.

The New Zealand singer became known with the song Royals, but as soon as she became world famous, she began to suffer from criticism regarding her appearance, which resulted in a complex: “People said on the internet: ‘Wow! She’s got her eyes wide apart.’ I remember thinking, ‘Wow! How did I get this far without knowing she had separate eyes?’” she stated. Fortunately, the artist found solace in the family and revealed that she now feels very good about her own look.

Being part of the fashion industry is not at all simple, considering that you have to meet physical standards that are almost impossible for any human being. And Cara felt it firsthand, despite being one of the most sought-after models for a few years now. “When you hate yourself and your body and the shapes you see, it just gets worse every day,” she said.

But it served as a great life lesson, helping the famous to love herself and her new career, that of an actress: “I am much more resistant today than I was before, and I feel that the work as a model, the rejection and everything else was important preparation. Now that I dedicate myself to this, I am the happiest person in the world,” she said.

Being one of the leading ladies of Glee has given the actress fame and recognition, but it has also generated unnecessary comments involving her nose. There were those who said that she needed a plastic surgery, but the subject already made the artist complex from a very young age:

“I was one of the only girls in my high school school not to have a nose job, and I probably needed the procedure. But growing up, my mom was always like, ‘Barbra Streisand didn’t have a nose job. You’re not going to operate on your nose’. And I didn’t operate ”she told her, sure of her decision. “So I’m proud to have done a positive show, to be able to be a voice for girls and say, ‘You don’t have to look the same as everyone else. Love yourself for who you are,’” she commented regarding her appearance on the series.

The Honduran-American actress became known for playing the protagonist of the series Ugly Betty, but ugly, as the name of the production suggests, she has nothing. Still, America was slow to accept this fact: “Most of the time, I hate photo shoots and I hate being on the red carpet. I don’t consider myself ready to face the scrutiny or pressure to be perfect, and I don’t think anyone is really ready for that. People say, ‘We love you and we love what you do,’ only you’re left thinking, ‘I’m not thin enough or pretty enough.’ Getting over that took a lot of work,” she confessed.

Still, the actress has learned to love herself as she really is and wants to inspire others to do the same: “How much time was I wasting on diets and analyzing my appearance? Take your time to discover what talent you have to contribute to the world! And get over the way your butt looks in those jeans!”

“I remember the time when I didn’t feel very pretty. She turned on the TV and saw only light skin. They laughed at my skin with the color of the night”, said the Kenyan-Mexican actress in a speech given in 2014. On the occasion, she revealed how uncomfortable she felt during her childhood and adolescence because of her skin color. “I asked God that the next morning I had lighter skin (…) and every day I went through the same disappointment of being as dark as the day before”, she said.

But when she grew up, the famous began to feel represented by black women in the media. This made her feel more secure in herself as she understood the true meaning of beauty: “What sustains us, what is fundamentally beautiful, is compassion for oneself and for those around us. That kind of beauty ignites the heart and delights the soul,” she concluded.

During pregnancy, a woman’s body changes and is not the same after childbirth. And, obviously, not even the famous run away from it. In 2016, the actress recorded the film Águas Rasas, in which she had to appear in bathing suits months after having had her first child: “I am making a film in a bikini eight months after having a baby, and that involves a level of insecurity and vanity (…). You don’t want to be that person who’s going to be in magazines with people saying, ‘Ew, look at her,’ instead of, ‘Wow, look at her,’” he confessed. But the actress understood that it was something natural, which should not cause complexes: “This negative ‘yuck’ should not be said in relation to anyone who had a baby. Our body is so beautiful… I wouldn’t be able to walk the Victoria’s Secret runway, but it is beautiful in a completely different and incredible way. It’s great to have the courage to stand up for women as they really are.”

When the actress was diagnosed with lupus, she revealed that the medications caused weight gain and that it affected her a lot. As if that wasn’t enough, negative comments posted on the internet and addressing her new silhouette didn’t help matters. Fortunately, Selena was able to face the side effect of her treatment in a positive light: “Honestly, I don’t care about my weight, because people will complain anyway: ‘You’re too small, you’re too big, it doesn’t match, blah , blah, blah’. I’m perfect the way I am,” she said recently.

As a young girl, the singer was personally affected by comments made when she gained weight. “I was 19 years old. None of the clothing samples looked good on me. I felt a little insecure when hearing certain comments”, she said in an interview, adding what she did to move on and overcome the situation: “One day, I woke up and refused to feel sorry for myself. That’s when I wrote the song Bootylicious. I had a new beginning in giving another meaning to what life had given me, transforming it into something that empowered women and men with the same struggle”.

In addition to having an unparalleled voice, the singer made a decision about her appearance that ended up inspiring many people who are insecure about themselves: she refused to have her nose operated on, with the aim of showing that what matters is talent and personality, and not the imposed physical standards. “I didn’t do what people said: ‘Change your name, fix your teeth, change your clothing style, get your nose done.’ My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent for singing and acting, why wouldn’t that be enough?

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