Everyone gather round. Something has been said that can never, ever be taken back.
Angelina Jolie thinks she is weird looking.
I repeat.
Angelina Jolie, the woman whose face makes angels weep, thinks that something about her #flawless body is, in actual fact, flawed.
“I have so much wrong with me. I’m odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny-muppet,” she said, before the earth imploded from sheer disbelief that anyone so incredible could ever feel even slightly insecure.
Angelina. Looking flawless.
Angelina is just like all of us. I suspect that sometimes, she also flicks through the pages of a magazine or watches the Victoria’s Secret Fashion show, then proceeds to eat 43 cinnamon scrolls because she feels, well, a bit crappy about the way she looks.
Seeing celebrities admit to their insecurities makes me feel good. Don’t judge me. I don’t delight in other people’s pain. I see their confessions as a way of them telling us that the whole ‘glitzy’ world of Hollywood, and fashion magazines, is a lie: the photoshopped billboards, the hours spent in hair and make-up, the three pairs of spanx worn to every red carpet event – all of them big, fat lies.
Angelina isn’t the only one. Many incredibly successful, beautiful female stars have come out and said that they often feel insecure about the way they look.
Click through our gallery to see some of Hollywood’s most famous who have shared their insecurities. Post continues after gallery.
When these women say they feel insecure, I light up because I, funnily enough, feel insecure too. Yes, I may be young, childless and wrinkle free, but I think my nose looks like a gnome’s and on a bad hair day I resemble Sideshow Bob. We all have our ‘thing’.
We can say that Angelina has nothing to feel insecure about, because she is literally a goddess walking before us, but when she opens up, I see her as a human just like me, who will never quite feel good enough in front of the mirror.
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Perhaps she genuinely feels insecure, but the problem is I feel that women are expected to say these things, so even if they know deep down that they are a stunner, they have to pretend to have some insecurity, because they know if they say "actually I've always been quite happy with my looks" they will sound arrogant.
Of course there are some beautiful women who are insecure about their looks, but I've also had friends who were so beautiful that they could own the room and I could tell they knew it, they didn't say they knew it and they weren't arrogant, but they just had an effortless grace and confidence about them.
When I was young I was quite confident about my looks, I knew I was pretty, I would never have said it though, because it would sound arrogant, on the other hand I knew I was considered quite pretty but I wasn't stunning beautiful, but I was quite happy with that, I knew I had enough looks to turn a few heads, get a few men interested in me, but without having the whole world fall at my feet. I thought what I had was quite good, I didn't have the need to be the most beautiful woman in the world, as long as I was pretty that would open some doors and make my life more fortunate than others. Because this is the other thing about beauty it seems like everyone wants to be this absolute thing of perfection (whatever perfection means) rather than being extremely grateful if they were fortunate to be born nice looking. If you were born a sapphire would you complain because you weren't a diamond? Also I always had the insight to realise that whilst the diamond might be considered more desirable by many, there will still be many who appreciate a sapphire and even some who prefer it.
On the other hand since I've gotten older and have started the inevitable aging process I have sadly become a little insecure about my looks, so I say to these girls who are reading this who are pretty and know they are pretty start appreciating the good luck that has been handed to you instead of whinging that your looks aren't perfect. In any case remember to a special soneone your looks will be perfect. Also I find losing my looks hard but not as hard as those who were stunningly beautiful do, because I was only accustomed to "renting" the room, I never "owned" it the way those stunners did, so I had to still use some of my intelligence and personality to get by, so the adulation wasn't as great as the real stunners so therefore wasn't as hard to give up.
To those of you who seemed to have the misfortune of being born not so pretty, just remember that whilst that may have made your youth hard, remember that it made you never rely on your looks, you managed to get on in life and find friends, partners, jobs because of the true you, and not your surface. You probably did a lot of things that I wasn't prepared to do because unlike me you didn't care whether you looked messy etc, because your whole self esteem wasn't centered around having to look pretty all the time. You also don't have the same insecurity going into middle and old age as we fading beauties do. And lastly people loved you and thought you were beautiful because you were just you.
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I don't know why this is a surprise. Lots of performers are insecure approval seekers - they feel the need for public adulation. AJ has a documented history of drug taking, broken relationships and difficulties with her father. She may have successfully recast her story so she features as a humanitarian (and perhaps with justification), but her past behaviour does not indicate someone at peace with herself. But yes, she is human, just like you. Her beauty does not render her "inhuman" although it may distance her from the rest of us poor slobs and we shouldn't regard her random arrangement of genes as superior to our own. I don't understand the celebrity worship. She is just a human being with issues like anyone else.