Friday, 25 July 2008
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How To Look Good Naked: God's Message of Love to Me
I don't usually watch a lot of Reality TV, but lately I've been getting into "How To Look Good Naked" hosted by Carson Kressly (of "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" fame).The reason I like it so much is that it's very different from the typical makeover show (I love those too). It's about more than makeup and clothes, and they certainly never talk about extreme changes likes plastic surgery or even dieting. The show is all about changing perceptions.
The general format of each episode is that Carson helps guide one woman from hating her body to absolutely loving it. The women are usually mothers, wives, and career women all in one; ladies who have personality and character, but overwhelmingly low self-esteem from the changes their bodies have gone through over the years. Carson's (and the show's) entire message is that each woman is unique, gifted, and beautiful, no matter what shape, size, age or color. The women have varied from large and curvy to short and petite. Sure, some of them could benefit (health-wise) from some guided weight-loss, but the point is to change the mindset first and get them to stop obsessing over their imperfections.
No matter what the woman looks like, Carson always points out the good things about her body and personality. He then challenges the woman with certain tasks and gives practical shopping advice to eventually change her perception of her body. He never tells her to fix anything except her own negative thoughts about herself. By the end of the show, she is flaunting her body and newfound confidence!
And can I tell you just how BLESSED I've been by this show? I know on the surface it just looks like another makeover show hosted by a gay man (that seems to be a winning formula these days), but honestly I feel like God has encouraged me so much through it. I never thought the God of the universe would speak his message of unconditional love and total acceptance of me through a flamboyant, checkered-pant wearing, Dolce & Gabbana loving gay man, but he has! I feel like everything Carson has said on the show is something that God could've said to me himself - that I am beautiful and gifted and no one has my life but me.
Sisters, how many times have we just been so down on ourselves about the way we look? Meanwhile our God who made us and designed us loves us just as we are - whether we have cellulite or not.
Check out the show on Lifetime (in the US) if you're interested. The real point here is that we need to change our perception about ourselves. God will never judge us for how we look, so why should we?
(Hey and if you have no idea what I'm talking about because you love your body, then more power to ya!)
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Comments (2)
in ways, it's kind of tells you a lot about the society we grow up in for some it takes a gay man to tell you that you look great.
all guys should be doing this! any event - pretty darn cool that you're being blessed by this - i think i shall check it out. with esther of course =)
I watch the UK version, which is presented by a guy called 'Gok Wan' and I love the show. Personally I've always been comfortable with me and how I look although I am aware of my flaws. However I'm a huge fan of anyone and anything which encourages a person to love themselves for who they are. Some of these women are so introverted because of how they perceive themselves that it's an amazing transformation to see them go from one extreme to another and actually feel good about themselves. So often in todays society we are expected to look a certain way when we should be embracing everything about ourselves.
I rarely watch these kind of shows myself, we have other similar shows here in the UK and none of them appeal. However HTLGN just seems to give these women the self respect they deserve and teach the good moral value that it's ok to have a different body to the 'normal' (whatever normal is).
I'm forever banging my head against the wall when yet another of my friends declares she's on a diet because she hates her body, that all her free time will be spent in the gym because, shock horror, she has a millimeter of flab forming on her midriff. Young women putting themselves through shocking treatment as their bodies continue developing just so they can strive for whatever perfect body they think they should have.
One tip my pastor gave us a few months back: When we start to feel despondent spiritually, or whether we just need to give ourselves a boost for whatever, when we just feel down look in the mirror and say 'Jesus Loves Me' once for every year of your life. So if your twelve, say it twelve times, if your thirty say it thirty times, eighty, say it eighty times. Say it enough time till you start to believe it. I do think it's a technique that could be put into practice when it comes to loving ourselves as well, God created us with these bodies and he loves us for them. So when you look in the mirror and find yourself recoiling because you don't like what you see, instead think it is what God sees and he loves us for who we are, and tell yourself that over and over again until you believe it.
I can imagine the US version of HTLGN being fab, I love Carson, he's great. xx