Every year, People Magazine puts out their “World’s Most Beautiful” issue. This year’s comes out April 26.
In looking at their “sneak peek” of the people included in this years issue, I see (SPOILER ALERT!!) Gwyneth Paltrow, Amanda Seyfried, Halle Berry, Pink (YAY!), and others. While I do agree these ladies, and the others in the sneak peek, look amazing and are soothing to the eyes, my question is this; HOW can they call it the “World’s” most beautiful? Unless People Magazine’s crew travel every inch of the ENTIRE world year after year and look at every individual living person prior to printing this issue… it’s crap
I haven’t had the opportunity to travel much, but I have run into or passed by some beautiful people in my day to day travels; women and men alike. People who aren’t on a TV show or a fashion model. People who don’t have a make-up artist or hair stylist working on them before they head out. People who don’t sit for a 1/2 hour photo shoot just to get that one perfect pic. Just regular people who may not, or may, know they’re beautiful, but are just going through their life, taking care of their kids and hold together a family.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I have seen guys who look like total thugs… and then they flash an amazing smile. Women who have thrown their hair into a messy bun and jumped into sweats, no make-up, nothing… and they look stunning.
If I were to sit in front of a make-up artist, hair stylist (wait… never mind that part!) and take 100 pics to get that ONE perfect shot… would I make the “World’s Most Beautiful” issue? No, because I’m not famous (#1) and I don’t care (#2).
Humanity is so wrapped up in air-brushed celebrities and what magazines, film and TV call perfection but don’t realize there is so much “real” perfection, “natural” perfection, “honest” perfection around them every day.
Hell, YOU may have been one of those people I saw at the grocery store! If so, thank you for being unknowingly beautiful.
Read more: Sneak Peek: 2013 World’s Most Beautiful List