Actress/model/singer Teyana Taylor has had to endure her fair share of haters and has had to take her lumps as a young woman in the entertainment industry. She recently opened up to Edge Magazine about the difficulties of appealing to one standard of beauty and having to cope with sometimes-cruel commentary of fans and bloggers about her career.
"The standard of beauty is just ridiculous, it’s unfair," Teyana told Edge. "Now to be beautiful you have to be light and have long hair and a big butt. That’s just stupid. If your lips aren’t small or your nose isn’t contoured enough…you’re less than. Sometimes I feel like I’m not beautiful because I have big lips or just because of the other features I have. I had problems growing up and I was teased a lot. People don’t see inner beauty anymore. It hurts me to go online and see “light skin vs. dark skin” stuff. Beauty is more than what’s on the inside."
Teyana also touched on the public's perception of her and that she is often lumped in with several other young female tabloid queens who are famous for doing next-to-nothing.
It gets really hard because people don’t really know what’s happening on the inside of things," Taylor said. "People can be so cruel and not even know your situation and not want get to know."
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For the first time ever, I'm reposting a Taalib post!
With that said, why does beauty has to pertain all "ass" and "tits"? Eye candy is only temporary. Eventually, shit start to sag and drag, but inner beauty is infinite.
Shallow men or women truly miss out a good person because they're blinded with the superficial. I found out the hard way that looks are BS! If their attitude is f'd up, then theyz some ugly MF.
As for Teyana, she's a beautiful and an incredibly talented sistah. This article upped my respect for her. So I'm ending this with her quote:
"People can be so cruel and not even know your situation and not want get to know."
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