The Good, Bad, & the Ugly: Stay Beautiful

Per my usual celebrity stalking on MSN's WonderWall every Sunday morning at work, I came across a photo...

Emma Roberts & Mary-Kate

These girls are fabulous, but in my opinion, Emma has seen better days. Well, MK too, but we all know her story!
So this lead me to think more in terms of child stars gone, well not exactly bad but more like misbehaved. So the search began.

Please understand that I'm a sister to a sixteen year old and I had a chat with her last night just about people in her classes and in classes under her about their lives. I can't believe how crazy it is to see kids her age have to choose who's going to be DD for the night. I'm not even 21 yet and I think I have that problem a lot less than some of those kids do. It worries me. So much.
Andrea is a great kid; I can honestly say she has her head on straight. I'd only be a hypocrite if I were to say that I didn't have the DD problem maybe a little later say 18-19 but s i x t e e n? Come on! I'm just so worried about the future of teenagers in general.
So...here are a few examples of what NOT to do, Andrea....

THE GOOD. (Miley Cyrus)

THE . . . VERY BAD.

Miley is a great example of what not to do. Please don't ever be a Miley. Searching for her photos was flat out gross with some of the things you'll find of her. And they're not photoshoped either. She's way too big of a fan of taking photos of herself. 

THE GOOD. (Demi Lavato)

THE BAD-ISH.

Demi Lavato case in point is not exactly her photos per say, it's more like her situation. Don't ever feel like things are so bad that you have to go to extremes to relieve stress. Tomorrow is another day and things will get better, I promise. Take it from me, yesterday, at a job, I lost my keys, my camera battery died, as well as my phone battery, didn't make it to bed until after 1, had to wake up bright and early at 7, think I had a hangover from drinking too much diet coke (are those possible?), dropped foundation on my shirt, while trying not to get it on my too-small-white-pants-from-last-summer, I spilt water on my white pants right before I pulled up to the front gate at work. Bad, yes? But I'm not going to check into rehab from stress-related-illnesses. Okay, so maybe not the best example, but I just want you (anyone) to know that think positively and know that things are not always as bad as they seem. 

THE GOOD. (Sweet Emma Roberts)

THE MISBEHAVING.



Once good & beautiful. (Lindsay Lohan)

Now, pick a mugshot, any mugshot!
PRETTY BAD, BAD, GROSS, & DOWNRIGHT UGLY!

Did anyone else love The O.C.? (Mischa Barton)

Mischa who?

THE GOOD. (Mary-Kate Olsen)

THE UGLY (Along side the uglier than sin, Spencer Pratt)

Final argument:
It is possible to be beautiful & sexy & fabulous & grown up without drinking too much and doing drugs. It is possible to have fun and still be under control and be just as amazing, if not better, than these girls that get a little too crazy.
Be yourself and people will love you for who you are. . . like these amazing girls that have stayed true to themselves.

THE GREAT, TAYLOR SWIFT

THE VERY GOOD, AMANDA BYNES.

THE FABULOUS, HAYDEN PANETTIERE.

You may not be a famous celebrity, but I see a lot of your classmates in some of those bad-girls. And quite frankly, it scares the buh-geezus out of me.
Stay yourself, and stay beautiful just like you are. You're better than all of that badness.

Xoxo