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The first episode of R-rated content discusses beauty standards and their impact on our heritage. Beauty standards are values applied to both men and women's appearance to fit in the community. Ella Cole shares her view on body image and how social media makes it harder to keep up with beauty standards. She believes that beauty standards can lower self-esteem as they are unachievable. Looks are marketed as a way to be liked and appreciated. Ella emphasizes that personality is more important than looks. She thinks that society conditions us to believe in an unachievable beauty standard, causing us to think certain things are beautiful. Personality is another way to be beautiful besides visuals. Ella believes that well-liked and popular people are expected to never have a bad day. She supports people changing their looks if it makes them happy, as it is their choice. Welcome to the first ever episode of R-rated content, I'm your host, Ava Silva, and we're back on with Day One in Osceola. Today we'll break down the beauty standards and how they've affected our heritage. First off, what is a beauty standard? Okay, here's the literal definition. Beauty standards are a set of values applied to the appearance of both men and women to be regarded as beautiful and handsome in order to rightly fit in the community. These standards are concerned with people's skin, hair, clothing, and other parts of the body. When you hear beauty standards, what comes to mind? I'm Emma McDonald, and I'm here with... Micaela Myers. And today we're going to be interviewing Ella Cole. First off, does your view on your body or dream body change often? In my opinion, not really. I'm a maid, but other people, yes. Does social media and trends make keeping up with beauty standards hard? Yes. There's like a standard that you have to reach, and social media makes it harder and makes people more insecure about themselves. How do beauty standards impact your self-esteem? I feel that at some point they can lower your self-esteem because it's an unachievable thing. How is looks marketed? I feel people think they need to reach a certain standard to be liked or appreciated. How often do you think about beauty or look? I don't really think about it that much. Do you think you have the same view on beauty as your friends and peers? I think I care more about personality and people I know are more focused on how they look and how people see them and how other people look. Is beauty and looks important to you? When you think of beauty, I think of your personality. I don't think looks are necessarily important to me. Do you think we are conditioned to think what is beautiful and what is not? Yeah, I think there's like an unachievable beauty standard out there that people think they need to reach. You can't reach it because no one's perfect. What causes us to think that a certain thing is beautiful? Beauty standards. Are there other ways to be beautiful other than visually? Personality. What do you expect from a really well-liked, really popular, hot person? I think in that, like, people assume they never had a bad day. They're not mean. And if they are mean, then they're a terrible person because they had a bad day. What is your opinion on people changing their looks, their makeup, surgery, piercings, tattoos, and et cetera? I think if that's what you like and you're comfortable and it makes you happy, then you can do everything you want with your body and your choice. Yeah. When you talk about beauty standards, most people think that guys don't have struggles or opinions. But here's a guy's perspective on it. Thank you, Ellen Kroll, for coming in today and sharing your opinions. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.