Why I Love Ugly Betty.
Is there someone out there who doesn’t like Ugly Betty? The comedy? The drama? The message?
I don’t think so.
I was wondering what real-life “Mode Girls” must think when they watch this. Do they completely understand, like, what those girls are thinking? Or are they secretly identifying with Betty?
I’m an Ugly Betty. There’s no two ways about it.
I don’t follow a fashion trend; I dress up however my mood suits me. Taking into consideration that I have a limited wardrobe because I simply don’t put shopping for clothes top on my list of priorities. I can hear the collective gasp of women across the world. Don’t get me wrong, I love shopping, but my retail therapy would consist of artsy stuff instead of clothes.
Shoot me.
I also don’t care what people think of me. Most of the time.
Like Betty, it doesn’t phase me that people think I’m not with “it”. I’m not into “it”, so I know and accept and embrace this fact.
I don’t want to be accepted for how I look anyway. I’m me, I’m unique and if someone thinks I’m a fashion fuck-up, then it’s just ONE aspect of who I am.If they can look beyond that, great. Because the rest of me is pretty OK.
My fashion sense and clothes don’t define me.
But I have feelings too and no matter how much I say I don’t care what people think of me, when they say mean things and make fun of me, it hurts.
So, like I was thinking, how do real-life “Mode Girls” view ugly Betty? Because deep down, everyone is an Ugly Betty.
Everyone feels that they don’t fit in. That’s why there are fashion trends, so that they can be like someone else.
That woman that looks like a million bucks? An Ugly Betty with a makeover.
Women pay an exorbitant amount of money to have their hair done, manicures, pedicures. Why? So that they can feel pretty, so that they can fit in. So that they can feel better about themselves. Because it doesn’t matter how beautiful you are, you think you’re an Ugly Betty.
Show me a woman that is 100% happy with the body that the gods have given her. (thank you Buddha for creating me in your image) Show me someone that is so satisfied with what she has that she wouldn’t change one thing about herself. Not gonna happen.
We can blame fashion, magazines, our mothers – but it’s always been that way. And it always will be.
I find my balance in knowing that I am not who I wear or what wear.
It’s not in the size of my ass.
It’s not the perfect hairdo.
It’s how I embrace what is important to me that makes me who I am.
I have my faults and my flaws, plenty of them actually, but like Betty, I’m ok with it, because the people who matter, love me no matter what.
That’s why I can look into the mirror, check out my cellulite and still think I’m beautiful!
And that’s why I Love Ugly Betty.
I love that they haven’t gone complete makeover on her, that they’ve let her keep her identity, monobrow and all.
She got the job and gets it done keeping her fashion sense and integrity intact.
The Cinderella story is great for Fairytales. From ash girl to princess with the wave of a wand.
But in reality, when you change yourself to fit in and not because it’s what you want or who you are, then a part of you disappears. A hairstyle today, an outfit tomorrow, a facelift next week, until we become something that society has deemed fit to be let outside. And someone you don’t recognise.
When you were perfect all along.
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