My mother never put an emphasis on looks. She let us grow up on our own time line. She never forced any beauty regimen into my world.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
My mother never wore much make-up, and she was a kind of natural beauty; she knew just how to enhance what she had.
I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.
My mum never told me that I was beautiful when I was a kid - and I didn't read magazines or watch MTV, so I had no real consciousness about it all.
I think of myself as a fairly attractive girl and always have, thanks to my mom. I was brought into this world thinking I was gorgeous because my mother was extremely devoted to this notion.
Being a grown-up woman doesn't mean you can't look beautiful, individual and different.
My mother always told me to take pride in my appearance.
My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive - I think I'm one of those people who's actually grown into their looks.
In Colombia, where I was born and raised, women like my mother considered their appearance and personal grooming a matter of principle. There was never an occasion where she didn't show up looking picture-perfect.
You know, my mother's beautiful, my dad was a really handsome man, and there was a lot of talk about looks when I was growing up.