"I DON'T LOOK LIKE
THE WOMEN IN THE MAGAZINES"
by Becky Hemsley 2023
THE WOMEN IN THE MAGAZINES"
by Becky Hemsley 2023
Oh but my darling, you’re not supposed to. They are a two-dimensional snapshot in time. A work of art that has been practised and posed and styled and edited over and over again.
Your hair is not supposed to look like theirs because it moves with you. It bounces with every step you take, it tickles your child’s shoulder as you kiss them goodnight and it curls upon your pillow as you dream.
Your clothes are not supposed to look like theirs because they are along for this ride with you. They are holding meetings and walking the dog and having lunch with friends.
You are not supposed to look like the people in the magazines because you are not one. You are a living, breathing work of art.
And wouldn’t it be a shame if a two-dimensional image stopped you living? If you took all the angles and facets of what makes you you, and wished they were smoother or softer or still. If you sanded them down until they were indistinguishable. Until you were no longer you.
Because surely living is what we are here to do? In all its messy hair or crumpled clothes or wrinkled skin glory.
A picture can’t hug a friend or walk the dog or laugh until it cries.
A picture can’t dream.
So it isn’t that you don’t look like the women in the magazines my darling. It’s that they don’t look like you.
And you know what?
Maybe they wish they did.
Becky Hemsley 2023
Artwork by kenzistudioco
This is from my latest collection Letters from Life here: https://amzn.eu/d/7xu8hmn
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