Long before she was the New Girl and spreading Christmas cheer by singing loud for all to hear, Zooey Deschanel was just another 17 year old flipping through the pages of Vogue and she didn’t like what she saw.
In 1997, a young Zooey wrote a letter to the magazine asking them to celebrate the beauty of all women rather what they consider to be “ideal”.
Vogue ended up publishing the letter and her (500) Days of Summer co-star Joseph Gordon-Levitt posted it on his Tumblr this week:
“Why would you want to limit the spectrum of beauty to an “ideal” when you, as a popular womens magazine, have the opportunity to expand it? I don’t think any woman should have to feel as if she needs to shove herself into an “ideal” to be beautiful. Beauty should be something that is celebrated and something that is enjoyable, not something that people should feel uncomfortable about achieving. Most of the women, and certainly most of the adolescent girls, in the United States do not feel completely secure with themselves, especially with their appearance; is insecurity something you want to advocate? As American women, we don’t need discouragement, but inspiration.”
And 14 years later not much has changed.
Thoughts???
[Image via Daniel Tanner/WENN.]
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