Allure magazine’s April cover issue features 41 women who are celebrating diversity by talking about their day-to-day struggles with beauty. The list features many famous names, such as Meghan Markle, Jessica Alba, Eva Longoria, Padhma Lakshmi and Priyanka Chopra. The ladies shared stories of their childhood and it’s hard to imagine that such beautiful women have also faced such a long struggle to accepting their skin and their bodies.
Allure magazine’s April cover issue features 41 women who are celebrating diversity by talking about their day-to-day struggles with beauty. The list features many famous names, such as Meghan Markle, Jessica Alba, Eva Longoria, Padhma Lakshmi and Priyanka Chopra. The ladies shared stories of their childhood and it’s hard to imagine that such beautiful women have also faced such a long struggle to accepting their skin and their bodies.
Chopra used the opportunity to try to make people love their skin, no matter what colour it is. “Pressure exists, and it’s on us to make those pressures not seem important to girls. I’ve achieved what I’ve achieved, and skin color has nothing to do with it—in fact it might have been an asset. I like the color of my skin very much. It’s so primitive to me that people are judged on the basis of the color of their skin. I mean, it’s skin. We all have it.”
Lakshmi shared her childhood experiences: “Before high school, I lived in a white suburb of Los Angeles where there were so few Indians that they didn’t even know the ‘correct’ slurs. They called me the N-word or ‘Blackie.’ For a long time I hated my skin color. Even in India, there’s a complicated history. My grandmother discouraged us from going in the sun; she didn’t want us to be dark. We were only allowed to play outside after 4:30. There was a cosmetics line called Fair & Lovely — that says it all.”
