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Hard Feelings with Jennette McCurdy

i’m pretty

Hard Feelings with Jennette McCurdy

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

so… i’m pretty. this might be a weird thing to say but i think it’s an important one. i spent too much of my life not recognizing my own beauty. i let negative beliefs and body dysmorphia rule me. not anymore, baby ! i like my eyes and my lips and my boobs and my hips and my hair and my cheekbones and the whole package. i’m happy to look like me.

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0:00.0

Lemonnotta.

0:05.0

So, I'm pretty.

0:10.0

I know that may be a weird thing to say out loud, but I think it's an important one to acknowledge.

0:20.0

And I'm going to tell you why in this episode of hard feelings.

0:25.0

Well, I don't know why I got so presentational there.

0:28.0

I've never done that.

0:29.0

Anyway, here'm not. So I feel like you know every kid starts thinking about their appearance kind of just

0:55.6

on the cusp of puberty maybe a little earlier but I started even earlier than that

1:00.4

because I was in an industry that is so hyper fixated and obsessed with

1:05.1

the appearance of children which is every bit as creepy as it sounds. I

1:11.1

I went out for a lot of roles I went out for a lot of roles. I went out for beauty pageant contestants and you know

1:19.7

little you know daughters of famous and very attractive,

1:24.4

the actors and actresses.

1:26.0

I had my fair share of that stuff.

1:27.4

I also went out for roles like, you know,

1:30.6

a homely looking girl, but you can't separate those things when you're little

1:35.1

you can't go like oh well I'm also going out for the beauty queen so instead

1:40.0

it's just like you see the word homely and you just think like oh so I guess I'm not I'm not

1:46.0

pretty like that's the conclusion that you draw as a kid and not to mention you know

1:52.1

you're in rooms with the literal prettiest people,

1:57.0

prettiest children, the hottest children on earth,

2:01.0

because that's what, Hollywood is. You can't so I'm you know I'm a kid I'm not able to differentiate any of that I'm not able to discern I don't know the difference so I just kind of get this messaging that I'm not

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