5 stars who made their flaws into strengths

Modern ideals of beauty are very clearly prescribed: body parameters should correspond to certain figures, and clothes should emphasize the generally accepted advantages and hide flaws. But there are people who show by example how to make a flaw into a business card.

Winnie Harlow

At the age of four, the future model was diagnosed with “vitiligo disease” – a chronic disease in which white spots spontaneously form on the skin (the same disease suffered from Michael Jackson). It is this feature brought the girl world fame.

In interviews, the model says that peers mocked her and called her “cow” or “zebra”. Because of constant bullying, the girl even tried to commit suicide. But the story turned out differently.

“The worst thing you can do is sit down and accept defeat. Get up and try again. My story is not just about people with vitiligo. Vitiligo is just a distinguishing feature, like freckles, frizzy hair, tiny ears… We are all different. My advice is to accept and love yourself despite what you look like,” says the model.

Emily Ratakowski

The model has always been characterized by a perfect, precise figure, but there are people (and there are many of them) who began to point out the peculiarity of her abs – a vertical depression between the muscles. Someone claims that this is a scar and the result of plastic intervention, and someone sees in this feature all the signs of diastasis – a direct divergence of abdominal muscles.

Diastasis is understood as a weakening and thinning of the white line, when it ceases to hold the straight abdominal muscles in the correct position, and they begin to diverge to the sides. This can be due not only to pregnancy, but also to old age, weight fluctuations, weightlifting, or hereditary weakness of the abdominal muscles. Diastasis is not only found in women, but also in men.

Whatever this feature is – it distinguishes the model. Despite thousands of comments about her appearance, the girl literally cultivated her abs, and now it has become a trend. Some plastic surgery clinics even offer to lie under the knife to get a “tummy like Emily”.

Uma Thurman

At the age of 12, the growth of the future actress was already 170 centimeters, which did not add Uma self-confidence, and the ridicule of classmates even more made her convinced of her own unattractiveness. Uma was desperately self-conscious about her height, her large feet, and her non-ideal appearance.

With a height of 183 cm her shoe size is 42nd, so she prefers to avoid heels and outfits with open legs. However, it was the height and foot size of the actress praised by director Quentin Tarantino in the movie “Kill Bill”. Repeatedly, the camera lingers for several minutes on the actress’ feet. After that, the director was teased that actresses with small shoe size have no chance of starring in his movies.

Rebel Wilson

In 2020, the actress lost weight by 57 kilograms, but still does not fit into the accepted standards of beauty. It is partly the lush forms that made her famous in the comedy genre.

How Rebel lost weight, you can read in our material.

About her weight loss actress says as an approach to his mental and physical health: “It’s not that I want to lose weight and reach certain numbers. It wasn’t about that, it was about getting to the bottom of why I had a tendency to overeat. I had the kind of job where I was paid a lot of money to be bigger. Sometimes that can play tricks on you.”

Even today, the Australian continues to prove that Hollywood stars can be not only standard beauties, but also lush ladies.

Karolina Kurkova

One of the angels from the Victoria’s Secret shows has become a symbol of body positivity and self-love: the Czech model has no navel, she lost it as a result of umbilical hernia surgery. It is symbolic that with such a feature Karolina did not just become a model, but decided not to hide this part of the body and demonstrate from the catwalks of underwear and swimwear. Kurkova today is one of the most sought-after models around the world.

Only in 2008 she told about the surgery that led to this feature, because before that she never felt shaming about it. The model herself believes that this happened thanks to the spread of social media.

In order not to shock the public unnecessarily, specialists drew Karolina Kurkova navel. However, to hide this feature was possible only in photos, but not on the podium. “I do not want to be different. Nature made me the way I am, and I should be happy!” – says the Czech model.