When I was growing up, one or two girls were beautiful, but it was not an aspiration, right?
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Women, with their sure instincts, realized that my intention was to make them not just more beautiful but also happier.
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.
You have to be careful when you use beauty as a guide. There are many theories people didn't think were beautiful at the time but did find beautiful later - and vice versa.
My parents never told me I was beautiful, and for one very good reason. I wasn't. When your child is a tubby, bespectacled little oddity, as I was, it's important not to give them false expectations.
When I was very young I never thought I was attractive, because I was a tomboy and I was always the biggest girl in the class.
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.
I didn't grow up thinking I was pretty; there was always a prettier girl than me. So I learned to be smart and tried to be funny and develop the inside of me, because I felt like that's what I had.
Being a grown-up woman doesn't mean you can't look beautiful, individual and different.
I had parents who were incredibly loving and nurturing and always made me feel beautiful, so I never really questioned that.
We know beauty when we see it, and our reactions are remarkably consistent. Beauty is not just a social construct, and not every girl is beautiful just the way she is.