Ana Hickmann He opened his heart and spoke about the aesthetic standards imposed by the fashionable society in his past. “All the time”she said while participating in the CARAS podcast.
The presenter said that these issues affected her mental health, but that she sought to understand this conflict as a profession.
“There was a pattern all the time. Just like we have trends in clothes, colors, or today the trends that we see in the digital world, but social networks. There were also patterns that were universal, that didn’t change at the moment any. Size of your hips, your waist, your height limit and below. And also the moment of biotypes. Either you were considered extremely commercial, cute, perfect or you were androgynous, fashionable. So they had these different classifications and that It was very complicated”he said.
The presenter continued: “When I started in 1996, androgyny was starting to emerge very strongly, which is an expression that I don’t particularly like, but it was of the time, ‘heroin chic’, which was women with that really sick look, deep eyes, very thin and with a very dark face. That was the trend, the trend of that moment of beauty”.
“But imagine, for you, 15 years old, for you to be successful, to be someone, to do such a magazine, you have to work with such a photographer, you have to have 89cm hips, if you have that, you are fat. If you don’t have good skin…. Imagine, you’re a teenager, hormone transition, pimples were something that sprouted. There was no photoshop, the most you had was a concealer to fix it and it was unacceptable for you to have the bad skin. Body had to be impeccable”he said.
The presenter concluded:“It affected some situations, there’s no way to say no. Whether you like it or not, you’re young and, above all, you’re messing with your self-esteem. […] But I understood it as a profession. I never found myself looking for something because I wanted to be that way, as a human being or as feminine beauty. I needed to do certain things because of my profession. I need to do better, in some way or another. But thank God every trend has a beginning, middle and end. Because of Brazilian women, the trend started to change”.
Source: Maxima
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