I _x000D_ would close down all those teenage magazines that encourage young _x000D_ girls to diet. Who says that to be pretty you have to be thin? Some _x000D_ people look better thin and some don't. There is almost a standard being _x000D_ created where only thin is acceptable. The influence of those _x000D_ magazines on girls as young as 13 is horrific.
Interpretation
The quote challenges societal standards of beauty, particularly the emphasis on thinness for women.
Penelope Cruz criticizes the harmful influence of teenage magazines that promote the idea that being thin is the only way to be considered beautiful. She suggests that beauty comes in many forms and that the pressure to conform to unrealistic standards affects young girls negatively, particularly those as young as 13, leading to a damaging perception of self-worth and body image.
In practice
In a discussion about media influence on body image, this quote serves as an example of the negative impact of societal standards.
I've seen my grandmothers grow old and they are so beautiful, every wrinkle in their face tells a story. I want to feel that in 30 years. I would always choose that kind of beauty over that comes from having too much done to yourself.
I know a girl who just looks at her face in the medicine cabinet mirror and never looks below her shoulders, and she's four or five hundred pounds but she doesn't see all that, she just sees a beautiful face and therefore she thinks she's a beauty. And therefore, I think she's a beauty, too, because I usually accept people on the basis of their self-images, because their self-images have more to do with the way they think than their objective-images do.
I am not beautiful. My mother once called me an ugly duckling. But,listed separately, I have a few good features.
Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
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.
You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
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
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