t's a never ending battle.

You look at yourself.

You know you can never attain that ideal.

As I've gotten older, you see different changes.

I feel like I have some wrinkles around my eyes.

I'm never going to be skinny. I'm not a skinny girl.

It can be hard when you see models and celebrities, and you just don't look the same.

Wow

Oh my god

I'm not expected to look like that at all.

I feel it doesn't even look like me.

I think cause I know myself.

This looks really different.

Why would you want to make someone look so different?

I like my freckles I think they add character.

And that fact they're gone.

I don't even know who that is.

Just as a normal person, seeing yourself change and your identity change

It's pretty shocking.

Once someone else's done your makeup and someone else's done your hair.

And someone's directed the way your body looks

And been taking away your imperfections, then…

there's not much left of who you really are.

This is how I always wanted to see myself.

But now that I see it,

I'm questioning why I ever wanted to look like that.

You look at these ads in magazines.

The city's women who look absolutely flawless.

I wish I could look like that.

But…who really looks like this?

I think that we live in a really interesting time.

Where we feel like we have to make people look to the standard that's not attainable for anybody.

Instead of looking at other things and trying to inspire to be something else.

We should just be comfortable in who we are, and just try to be our best selves.

I think something that everybody should keep in mind is that.

It's natural to be critical yourself.

It's natural to be uncomfortable and awkward.

But you just have to know that the ideal

just doesn't exist