Hollaback Girl

      

    

I first came across the unreasonably fresh-faced Zooey Deschanel as music teacher 'Ms. Edmunds' in the little known fantasy flick, Bridge To Terabithia. I've since learned that her mother, Mary Jo Deschanel, starred as Eileen Hayward in Twin Peaks which, given my aforestated enthrallment, further piqued my interest. Just recently, I came across a letter she wrote to Vogue magazine, as a precocious and, incidentally, spot-on seventeen-year-old:
 

Why would you want to limit the spectrum of beauty to an 'ideal' when you, as a popular magazine, have the opportunity to expand it? I don’t think any woman should have to feel as if she needs to shove herself into an ideal to be beautiful. Beauty should be something that is celebrated and something that is enjoyable, not something that people should feel uncomfortable about achieving. Most of the women, and certainly most adolescent girls...do not feel completely secure with themselves, especially with their appearance; is insecurity something you want to advocate? As women, we don’t need discouragement, but inspiration.

                      

Zooey Deschanel

Los Angeles, CA