So I’m watching the episode where Jasmine is saying how insecure she feels about herself, and how she doesn’t view herself the way Gino does.
It absolutely floors me that she doesn’t know how gorgeous she looked pre cosmetic procedures. It got me thinking about my daughter’s who are so beautiful and don’t see what I see, and even myself until recently.
Gino did an amazing job of reassuring her, but I just think it’s so sad. Our society just damages women so much. In so many ways.
Jasmine is beautiful, and I hope she realizes it before she gets some botched procedure, or just ends up looking cartoonish.
Even if she was a troll, wasting $$ on cosmetic procedures never seems to fulfill these individuals. They need to learn to love themselves. It sounds cliche, but it’s so true.
Once you love yourself unconditionally, everything else kind of falls into place.
I see a lot of people in the post making the same mistakes. Insecurity about looks can come from many places, but a lot of times, insecurities about looks can absolutely come from people telling them that they are beautiful growing up, so much so that they’ve attached their self-worth to their beauty. This is also why you see a lot of very pretty girls with obsession to plastic surgeries, because they’ve been told that they are beautiful growing up as their core identity. Now I’m not saying you shouldn’t tell your sons and daughters that they are beautiful, but compliments have to be meaningful in a way that rewards something they did instead of something innate, such as hard working, loyal, honesty…etc.