What defines the perfect woman in Hollywood?

Some would say a cross between Angelina Jolie, Pam Anderson and Charlize Theron which on the surface does sound pretty perfect but in reality most women in the UK, don't have the legs, the lips, the eyes or the breasts and cannot do the work through diet and exercise to create anything close to the look.

The truth is, the reason we are unable to get close to a somewhat perfect body, UK standard, is because the dressing template for most is bordering on obese to start with. And these Hollywood sirens are made up in the movies. If you bumped into any one of them in Starbucks in Malibu (where I've had a few celebrity sightings) I bet you, you probably wouldn't even recognise them.

Being perfect is not all it's cracked up to be. LA Lifestyle means being up at 4.30am checking into Equinox (old sports club LA) by 5.30am and guzzling your Kombucha by 7.00am. You'll also have to think about listeining to Joaquin Phoenix and Mara Rooney Hollywood's poster children and going meat free, gluten free, cruelty free, smoke free, alcohol free while you drive along the 405 in your hybrid thank you to Leo Di Caprio. Giving up driving a Cadillac Deville or some other over sized gas guzzler admittedly one of the easier sacrifices to make.

Craving that celebrity look in your weekly glossy, knowing you've not got a hope in hell of ever achieving anything close to it, will leave you feeling miserable and hopeless. Window shopping in the virtual world of Hollywood's perfect pool is pointless, it's an illusion. Even if you managed to find a surgeon/stylist who could magic wand you into Pamela Anderson, you are not her and never will be.

So instead of giving up completely and settling for a gallon of ice cream and a pair of old slippers find balance in the middle and gratitude to be you.

Oscar Wilde said "Be yourself, everyone else is taken."

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