Ok, so you feel like you need a facial but have no money, right?! Here’s what you do:

1. Take an egg white and “scramble” it a little with a fork and apply it to your face and neck. It’s kind of gross and smells funny but it’s worth it. Let it dry. (It’ll look really funny!)
2. Wet your hands and take about a tablespoon of sugar and scrub all over your face to get the eggwhite off. Scrub really hard so it not only gets the egg off but also exfoliates your skin. Don’t forget your neck too.
3. Rinse with warm water.
4. Take cold milk and blot it all over your damp skin and then rinse with cold water.

This facial will make a difference right away. Also, if you want to tighten your skin a little more, take fresh lemon juice and apply that to your skin. You can either leave it on or rinse with cool water again. After the facial is done, just apply your normal moisturizer.

You’ll be amazed. I tell no lies.

When asked what she felt about people constantly commenting on her curvy figure, Queen Latifah said, “It’s who I am. And we’ve got to keep talking about it so it becomes nothing to talk about anymore. I’m looking forward to that day. But I’m happy to see there are some other girls in the group now. For a while, it felt like it was just me. Now I have Jennifer Hudson, America Ferrera, J.Lo and Beyonce. To me, curves are beautiful. There’s room for anybody.”

I could not agree more: we have to keep talking about the issue of ‘having curves’ so it doesn’t remain such a big deal. The average size of a woman is a size 14, yet media constantly bombards women with stick-thin figures who could easily pass for having Anorexia Nervosa. In fact, many older women who were supermodels in their prime have recently denounced the anorexic “Twiggy” look. These women said they believed many lies in their early modeling careers, some of which include:

1. If you aren’t thin, then you aren’t attractive.
   
2. Being thin is more important than being healthy.
   
3. You must buy clothes, cut your hair, take laxatives, starve yourself, do anything to make yourself look thinner.
   
4. Thou shall not eat without feeling guilty.
   
5. Thou shall not eat fattening food without punishing oneself afterward.
   
6. Thou shall count calories and restrict intake accordingly.
   
7. What the scale says is the most important thing.
   
8. Losing weight is good; gaining weight is bad.
   
9. You can never be too thin.
   
10. Being thin and not eating are signs of true willpower and success.

I think it’s important to note that these same women have also said their bodies are now suffering because of malnourishment.

Having said this, before I left Denver, I talked with a woman who said much of the same thing:

“Growing up, my parents constantly pushed me to be thinner. While going through puberty, my father told me that my breasts were just excess fat even though I was a size 2. Long story short, I am forty years old and my body is falling apart. I would love to have more children but feel like my body would absolutely destruct. I have a lot of health troubles because I didn’t eat for so long. Women need to hear that it’s OK to have meat on their bones–that’s the way God meant for women to be! We have the babies! Keep getting this message out there…”

So here’s to continuing to get ‘the message’ out there. Ladies, be healthy and realistic about your body type. Even as Queen Latifah said in another interview, “Even at out healthy weight, some of us are not going to be a size 2, 4 or 6. It wouldn’t look right. I can’t even imagine what I would look like that thin—it’s just not me!”

While working on Capitol Hill in 2005, I began to settle into the vision for this business. I simply encountered way too many women living in defeat because they did not look the way

Ladies, it’s sad that so many of us buy into the lies we all read in magazines and see in the media instead of realizing our uniqueness. Though I had many obstacles to overcome in order to finally come to truthful conclusions about my own self and beauty, those obstacles now give me a deeper sense of commitment to this business and to help you, as a woman, to walk in beauty.