When I was a little girl, the family joke was that I should be an "actress" when I grow up! I guess they mistook my "passion" for acting, because anything to do alone in front of others was never my kind of dream career. LOL!
I still have that "passion", maybe even more, but the spin on the careers in acting have shifted toward "looking like a model", "posing like a model", "obsessed with their weight like a model", and even "taking over magazines like models"...oh, ya... and still be "talented" as an actor...Let's even carry that pressure on to other performing artists in Entertainment. I see the pressure to maintain a given image even on the "Image-Makers" throughout the industry.
Aesthetic laborers/workers in the entertainment. talent, modeling industry need to find healthy strategies that build up their immunity to others negative (or just carelessly spoken) critique. If this is a part of the industry that you recognize...even if not just for yourself, but as happening to others...don't get discouraged! Let the knowledge be shared that you are far from alone in those insecure moments within different parts of a career.
Many creative people even have that sensitivity on a higher level! Others that don't "get by" aesthetically and are not used to being judged, viewed, and critiqued on every part of their body in their careers often don't relate to what it takes mentally and emotionally.
It's part of the industry's image that doesn't score much empathy for a variety of reasons. There is more to learn about our society from how our models are viewed by various groups of men, women, teen boys, teen girls, children, fashion clients, commercial clients, human trafficking groups, pedophiles...and most importantly how the individual person feels about themselves.
I still have that "passion", maybe even more, but the spin on the careers in acting have shifted toward "looking like a model", "posing like a model", "obsessed with their weight like a model", and even "taking over magazines like models"...oh, ya... and still be "talented" as an actor...Let's even carry that pressure on to other performing artists in Entertainment. I see the pressure to maintain a given image even on the "Image-Makers" throughout the industry.
Aesthetic laborers/workers in the entertainment. talent, modeling industry need to find healthy strategies that build up their immunity to others negative (or just carelessly spoken) critique. If this is a part of the industry that you recognize...even if not just for yourself, but as happening to others...don't get discouraged! Let the knowledge be shared that you are far from alone in those insecure moments within different parts of a career.
Many creative people even have that sensitivity on a higher level! Others that don't "get by" aesthetically and are not used to being judged, viewed, and critiqued on every part of their body in their careers often don't relate to what it takes mentally and emotionally.
It's part of the industry's image that doesn't score much empathy for a variety of reasons. There is more to learn about our society from how our models are viewed by various groups of men, women, teen boys, teen girls, children, fashion clients, commercial clients, human trafficking groups, pedophiles...and most importantly how the individual person feels about themselves.
