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I often think that, as time goes on, actresses have become less naturally beautiful and unique; what with plastic surgery and style makeovers, we sometimes even confuse female stars with one another. Two days ago, on one of the "endless hours days", I stumbled across "Let's Make Love", an old movie starring Marilyn Monroe, and I couldn’t help but wonder if I could go on holding this opinion… 

At first, I couldn't really tell if it was her at all; the movie was in full colour, so her hair seemed to be too blonde, white even, to be as sensuous and lovely as Marilyn's. She had yellow teeth, undoubtedly an unwanted effect smoking sexy cigarettes, and...I don't know, I guess I had never looked at her so closely. The real shock came after, when she appeared in a scene dressed in a dance costume that was truly a huge mistake; Marilyn Monroe was chubby! She really was. I was looking at her, and all of a sudden it became obvious to me how much times have changed. I mean, nowadays all the gossip magazines would have pictures of Marilyn Monroe wearing that dress and tabloid would read “Monroe needs tummy tuck”, or some similar brainless statement.

But you see, back then every woman wanted to be her. And I can't help but wonder if it was as hard to become her as it is to become a contemporary cover-girl. Having role models such as Marilyn Monroe must have been much more reasonable; for one, it is a relief to see that sex symbols can have a normal figure, an attainable figure. The thing I thought was most surprising was that all these flaws made her truly beautiful; even if her hair looked a bit like a Barbie's from being so dyed, even if she wore a layer of make-up that could be distinguished from the actual epidermis, and even if she had the faintest beginning of a double chin, when she broke into singing intervals, I could not help but notice how truly beautiful she was as a whole. 

I think what I am trying to get at is that what made her so desirable and gorgeous was what she represented, and what she did, because she did it best. I can tell you I have enjoyed an old movie this much on few occasions, and all because of the passion Marilyn Monroe showed when playing her character. These days I think we all try to be beautiful, period. Beautiful constantly, no matter what we are doing. But maybe we don’t realize that we are most attractive when we do certain things, and not all the time, like Marilyn Monroe when she sang. I know that realizing that the concept of beauty changes through time is no last minute discovery, but maybe realizing that we can be more beautiful when we do what we like is. And maybe this is even harder than becoming a size zero model, because you can diet and work out until your body disappears, but doing these particular things that bring out our beautiful sides often involve a bigger amount of sacrifice. Don't they?
 


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