Nobody Looks Like That

Interesting beauty quote from gorgeous actress Kate Beckinsale from a Glamour magazine interview. Even people in Hollywood don't look like the Hollywood fashion ideal.

"I don't think you can aspire to it, nor can I. Everybody is retouched, stretched, lengthened, slimmed and trimmed. I could look at a picture of myself from the past and think, `Why don't I look like that now?' It's because I never have!"

Even if we don't admit it to ourselves, everyone is influenced by the Hollywood look -- either to punish our bodies into unreal submission or to shame ourselves for being too fat, too blemished, too greasy, too awkward. It gets in our heads from the time we're kids, but we've got to fight it. It's such an illusion.

Some of the most gorgeous women in Hollywood come off as really ugly when you listen to them on a talk show for five minutes. All the botox and push-up apparatus on the west coast can't overcome the inner ugliness of someone who lives only for self. Solomon said it better: "Like a gold ring in a pig's snout is a beautiful woman who shows no discretion." (Proverbs 11:22)

But real beauty is irrepressible in a woman focused on looking like Jesus.

"Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewelry and fine clothes. Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God's sight. For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to make themselves beautiful." (1 Peter 3:3-5)