“Life takes you unexpected places, love brings you home.”
Dear Ladies of the Gen Z gen, Although the accessibility and influence of social media was not an issue for us of the Gen X/Elder Millennial generation, we do, in fact, know a little something about growing up with warped views on what was expected of us as far as looks went. Please see the “heroin chic” and “nothing tastes as good as skinny feels” aesthetic of the late 90’s and early 2000’s if you need a point of reference. As someone who fell victim to the Victoria secret of it all, and was so dedicated that I starved myself for most of my twenties, I know how you feel. But I have to say, I am continuously shocked (although at this point I shouldn’t be) at the new ways we come up with to torture ourselves into fitting the beauty mold. Botox, fillers, lifts and surgery are no longer reserved for the rich and middle-aged; it’s walking the hallways of the college I work at. It’s showing up on the faces and bodies of girls and women barely out of their teen years, whose brains, b...