FABULOUS ISN'T GLAMOROUS. NECESSARILY

Apr 07, 2011

I was eating my midmorning cottage cheese with kalamata olives, pumpkin seeds and chipotle salsa, when this thought popped into my head: Do you have to be GLAMOROUS in order to be FABULOUS?

Most people would quickly say, "Yes." This is due in no small part to shows like "Life in the Fab Lane" (a *reality show* that follows fashion model Kimora Lee in her daily, glamorous life), or "The Real Housewives of ____" (where we see what it's like to be filthy rich – and (apparently) absolutely, fabulously glamorous.

In other words, what we watch on TV, read in fashion magazines, or see on billboards (mine notwithstanding) is telling us something that isn't true! We are supposed to believe that being FABULOUS is the same as being GLAMOROUS; but more importantly, we are told that you can't be one without the other!

Well…being the student of logic that I am, I did a little VENN DIAGRAM to show how this is not necessarily true.

Class is officially in session: (Ahem) To make this better, imagine that I am showing you a really cool PowerPoint presentation on an overhead projector, using a remote control that has a fabulous laser pointer on it. (Notice that I did NOT say the remote is glamorous.)

My Fabulous Venn Diagram

As you can see, some people are glamorous, some are fabulous; some are decidedly non-glamorous, some are simply not fabulous, some are neither glamorous NOR fabulous, some are fabulously glamorous, others are glamorously fabulous, and then there are those people who can't decide where they are, so they are green. None of this really determines their happiness, but that is an entirely different class that meets every other Friday night.

The point of this should be colorfully clear: You do NOT have to be GLAMOROUS to be FABULOUS. As a matter of fact, you don't even have to be FABULOUS if you don't want to be (but then you'd be yellow or green…or something like that, instead of PINK or RED, but I digress.) No one should think less of you because you decide to be something different than they are, and you should never choose to be something you aren't. At the end of the day, know who you are and be the best version of  you that you can be.

It's perfectly logical to me: You are free to be whoever you want to be, and no one can tell you otherwise. If you want to be fabulously unGlamorous, that is your right. If you want to be unFabulously glamorous, I celebrate that, too. In my case, because I love shoes, big hair, lots of bling, and fabulous clothes, it's no accident that I am HOT PINK (Fabulously Glamorous). Where do you fit on this diagram? Don't worry, you don't have to tell me, but if you're spending $20 on a can of hairspray, I'll pretty much know where to find you…

CLASS DISMISSED

PS -- Aren't you glad I didn't add "SEXY" to the diagram? Good heavens, I wouldn't even know what COLOR to use… 

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