Beauty Reimagined by Stylist Magazine

Author:Stylist Magazine
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780241384961
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2018-01-24T16:00:00+00:00

It’s not anti-feminist to say a product is anti-ageing, it’s just stupid. They might be able to plump you out for a bit, but they don’t stop you ageing. Whenever I see a twenty-year-old trying to flog me one, I just turn the page. There’s a widening of the kind of women we see in the media, but it’s still only a fraction of the true demographic. Until there is a female equivalent of Seth Rogen – and I say this with love, as he is the kind of guy I would bang – who looks like a sofa with the stuffing coming out of it but gets million-dollar film deals regardless, we know we’re not anywhere near true equality.

Big hair and big eyeliner have always been the constant. The changes have come more below the chin, with a variety of successive breakthroughs where I’m finally happy with my body.

I grew up loathing my body. My biggest dream as a teenager was that I would be caught up in a massive car crash and the miracle that is the NHS would rebuild my body while removing about four stone in the process. That’s an extreme level of self-loathing for a teenager. Then, when I gave birth to my first child, it was very traumatic and suddenly I felt sympathy for my body for the first time. I’d seen it entirely as a problem before, but then when I gave birth I felt very sorry for my body. It was like, ‘Aw, mate! That fucking chafed!’

Thinness bores me now. We’re in such a sculpted-body age. Look at Kim Kardashian – her body is a feat of engineering and cash. Unless it’s your full-time job, you will never look like that. There’s no traction to it either. Twenty years ago, nudity was a big deal, but now you see naked tits all the time. What’s going to catch your eye these days is an imperfect body. That seems rarer and more interesting to me. We’ve seen enough physical excellence now; the pendulum is starting to swing the other way. We want realness.

Yoga has definitely improved my body image. It teaches you that you can make yourself happy by essentially just massaging yourself for an hour. I don’t do yoga classes, I just follow videos by this Texan stoner girl called Adriene. Her mantra is ‘Just do what feels great.’ It sounds like an obvious thing to say, but it’s actually revolutionary. How often are you told as a woman to just sit down and do something which is free, makes you feel fucking great and is purely for your own pleasure? Not to tighten up your pelvic-floor muscles to become better in bed or to fit into special jeans. Just because it feels good. Rarely.

My attitude to body hair is ‘Live and let die.’ I remove it from the places where it might cause terror rather than offence in public, just the edge of the bear’s head. I’m an incredibly lazy person. Unless someone is knocking on my door saying, ‘Dude, sort your minge out,’ I just let it be.

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