The Beautiful Streep

Beauty is something very funny, don’t you think? It’s something very personal. You can’t discuss it. Do you like the hawk nose, the outspoken cheekbones, big breasts, small breasts, no breasts? Are you drown to these big, glistening, brown eyes or to these small, green, slanted eyes? Is it the personality you’re attracted to, or the legs, or the full red lips or the small pink ones?

Beauty is like flavours and tastes, but above all beauty is overshadowed by kindness and love. It’s called inner beauty. Some people take it for granted, but someone’s kindness, warmth, love and friendship can truly change your perception. Not only your perception on him or her, but also on the whole world. Why? I don’t know. Perhaps because love, happiness and hope make someone sparkle? Or maybe you were blinded by your love? Maybe because that smile captured you? Those eyes hypnotized you? Does it matter? No. Should it matter? No. What is beauty? Love.

Meryl Streep

A hawk nose, outspoken cheekbones, thin, pink lips, green eyes, pale skin and blonde hairs (actually brown), small breasts. People would define her a character actress. Sometimes I truly ask myself why some people don’t like the way she looks. I look at her and ask them: what exactly makes her an ‘unattractive person’? I found the answer myself, without them. She never appeared as a simple ‘sex object’, a stupid, blonde bimbo in a film, she never did naked photoshoots or showed her boobs in every movie she was in. Does that truly make a person ‘unattractive’ or ‘not sexy’? Do the things that distinguish her from the big, grey crowd make her ‘ugly’? What is your definition of ugly anyway?

Aging in grace

Something lots of people do agree on is the beautiful way she ages. She seems to blossom with the years. Her confidence has become greater, she accepted herself the way she is, she ages with grace and beauty. She hasn’t become an object of ridicule, a woman yearning for youth and the beauty she used to posses (and still possesses). She skips plastic surgery and botox (which apparently a lot of people doubt). Some people seem to have trouble with accepting wrinkles and signs of the aging process. Society today is photoshopping every pimple and wrinkle. What's wrong with nature? 

An actress = sexy bimbo?

Why does an actress have to be a sexy bimbo, not necessarily intelligent. In lots of movies, especially action films, women are portrayed as sex objects, as stupid girls only to be ‘f*cked and raped and rescued from the evil by a male’.  

Meryl Streep graduated from Yale Drama School and had a career lasting for almost four decades. Why? Talent.

Confidence

When she was young, she didn’t have confidence in her looks and her beauty. In her Barnard Commencement Speech she has stated how she yearned to look like the girls on the cover of magazines, wanting to be liked by the boys and accepted by the girls. Her advice now, fifty years later: ‘Don’t worry so much about your looks and your weight. Develop what you do, what you put your hands on in the world.’

After all, these are the footprints you leave behind.

Inner beauty

I do think lots of people appreciate Meryl Streep and find her a gorgeous woman because of her personality. The advice she gives, the inspiring things she says, her talent, the absolutely beautiful movies and the fact that she accepted herself the way she is. That’s something people like and admire. Also the fact that she made it a successful, rewarded actress just because of her talent.

Clothes

When Meryl Streep attends a premiere or a talkshow there are two options:

-She’s a fashionista and overshadows everyone in her presence.

-She looks like she’s wearing a garbage bag.

I think it makes her even more adorable. Fashion is not something that necessarily interests her or something she wants to spend time on. It’s something that makes me love her even more.

Remember when she wore the same shirt last year, during three days on three different talkshows? But even with a garbage bag as dress, Meryl Streep shines like a star. She can really pull of anything…

Personal happiness

That Meryl Streep has success in absolutely every part of her life, has become clear. Not only her career is unstoppable, also her love for her husband, friends, children and family. I’m certain that personal happiness makes someone glow. So maybe we should all thank Don?

So what is beauty to you?