I don't want to have to be beautiful all the time. I want to be able to look cruddy in my weekend sweats, with a pimple on my face and pimple cream on top of the pimple. The expectation to always be beautiful bothers me.
Interpretation
Cindy Crawford expresses her desire to be free from societal beauty standards.
In this quote, Cindy Crawford emphasizes the pressure that comes with always needing to appear beautiful. She shares her longing for authenticity and the freedom to look unrefined, like during casual moments at home, highlighting how beauty standards can be burdensome and unrealistic.
In practice
During a panel discussion on body positivity, the quote can be used to represent the struggle against unrealistic beauty expectations.
I'm actually happier with my body now . . . because the body I have now is the body I've worked for. I have a better relationship with it. From a purely aesthetic point of view, my body was better when I was 22, 23. But I didn't enjoy it. I was too busy comparing it to everyone else's.
Because you are beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence
Look, whenever I hear or read I’m beautiful, I simply don’t understand it … I’m certainly not beautiful in any conventional way. I didn't make my career on beauty.
When I was young and beautiful, I never appeared on the cover of a magazine.
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.
There is such a thing as too much beauty in a woman and it is often a burden as crippling as homeliness and far more dangerous. It takes much luck and integrity to survive the gift of perfect beauty, and its impermanence is its most cunning betrayal.
And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows!
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