I never thought much of Olivia Wilde before reading her Cosmo feature. How would I? She's fairly new to the scene and all I've seen of her was in IMAX 3D at a Tron: Legacy screening I glided through. I thought, she's cute, definitely got the whole dumb, wide-eyed doll bit going for her, but that's about it. Then I read this little article, which is written in her voice, and though I don't know how much of the writing, like her photos, has been touched up, it definitely struck a chord with me.
The Wilde girl allegorizes beauty and confidence. She talks about an encounter with an older woman questioning her choice in footwear when she was sporting her three-inch heeled booties out in NYC. Wilde says that she wears what turns her on to her. She says, "We are at our sexiest when we feel the most confident. We are at our least attractive when we are sure of our inadequacies and practically cave in on ourselves to conceal them." And I thought, how true. If anything taught me this exact lesson it was my week long adventure sans face paint during No Makeup Week.
Wilde also talks about the Hollywood factor. "... it is nearly impossible not to check out what's scrawled about you on the bathroom walls. But if I let this nonsense creep into my psyche, I'll be ruined by it and therefore about as sexually empowered as a deflated blow-up doll." What a great image. Whether or not Wilde drafted a majority of these words or not, I don't really care. I like this first person narrative much better than the usual, writer-lunches-a-toned-down-celeb-and-doesn't-find-much-under-the-surface-bit that Cosmo usually cranks out. Kudos to you MissWilde, I like you're style!
COSMO: What I Learned In April 2011
Cosmo Cover Girl: Olivia Wilde
I never thought much of Olivia Wilde before reading her Cosmo feature. How would I? She's fairly new to the scene and all I've seen of her was in IMAX 3D at a Tron: Legacy screening I glided through. I thought, she's cute, definitely got the whole dumb, wide-eyed doll bit going for her, but that's about it. Then I read this little article, which is written in her voice, and though I don't know how much of the writing, like her photos, has been touched up, it definitely struck a chord with me.
The Wilde girl allegorizes beauty and confidence. She talks about an encounter with an older woman questioning her choice in footwear when she was sporting her three-inch heeled booties out in NYC. Wilde says that she wears what turns her on to her. She says, "We are at our sexiest when we feel the most confident. We are at our least attractive when we are sure of our inadequacies and practically cave in on ourselves to conceal them." And I thought, how true. If anything taught me this exact lesson it was my week long adventure sans face paint during No Makeup Week.
Wilde also talks about the Hollywood factor. "... it is nearly impossible not to check out what's scrawled about you on the bathroom walls. But if I let this nonsense creep into my psyche, I'll be ruined by it and therefore about as sexually empowered as a deflated blow-up doll." What a great image. Whether or not Wilde drafted a majority of these words or not, I don't really care. I like this first person narrative much better than the usual, writer-lunches-a-toned-down-celeb-and-doesn't-find-much-under-the-surface-bit that Cosmo usually cranks out. Kudos to you MissWilde, I like you're style!
I never thought much of Olivia Wilde before reading her Cosmo feature. How would I? She's fairly new to the scene and all I've seen of her was in IMAX 3D at a Tron: Legacy screening I glided through. I thought, she's cute, definitely got the whole dumb, wide-eyed doll bit going for her, but that's about it. Then I read this little article, which is written in her voice, and though I don't know how much of the writing, like her photos, has been touched up, it definitely struck a chord with me.
The Wilde girl allegorizes beauty and confidence. She talks about an encounter with an older woman questioning her choice in footwear when she was sporting her three-inch heeled booties out in NYC. Wilde says that she wears what turns her on to her. She says, "We are at our sexiest when we feel the most confident. We are at our least attractive when we are sure of our inadequacies and practically cave in on ourselves to conceal them." And I thought, how true. If anything taught me this exact lesson it was my week long adventure sans face paint during No Makeup Week.
Wilde also talks about the Hollywood factor. "... it is nearly impossible not to check out what's scrawled about you on the bathroom walls. But if I let this nonsense creep into my psyche, I'll be ruined by it and therefore about as sexually empowered as a deflated blow-up doll." What a great image. Whether or not Wilde drafted a majority of these words or not, I don't really care. I like this first person narrative much better than the usual, writer-lunches-a-toned-down-celeb-and-doesn't-find-much-under-the-surface-bit that Cosmo usually cranks out. Kudos to you MissWilde, I like you're style!