The “Halloween” actor posing in More magazine in an unretouched photo pulled back the veil of Hollywood glamour and enabled me to show myself kindness. Opinion by Set L. Shuter
When I was 12 years old, I was obsessed with horror movies and the badass women who starred in them. Rewinding back to the early 2000s, I spent thousands of my childhood hours sitting cross-legged on my bedroom floor with my eyes glued to my tiny 23-inch CRT TV, watching my favourite shows and movies.
On this day, my eyes landed on a magazine I’d never read before called More. The cover featured my favourite actress, Jamie Lee Curtis. A flash of excitement hit my heart as I grabbed it off the rack. The headline read: “Think I’m perfect? Check me out. Jamie Lee takes off her clothes.” For as long as I could remember, my mother struggled with her weight. She battled her biology to fit into an unattainable beauty standard perpetuated by the movies, television shows and magazines that entertained her. I watched her torture herself with fad diets she’d seen in commercials, counting calories and weighing slim portions of meat on a tiny, expensive scale while my father and I gobbled cheeseburgers with Vernors ginger ale.
I owe my horror-obsessed childhood to my mother. She kept her first edition Stephen King novels under lock and key in an antique cabinet beside our living room television. When VHS tapes became affordable, she collected her favourite horror movies and wasted no time in beginning my cinematic education. The first three films she showed me were “Hellraiser 5: Inferno,” “Halloween” and “The Fog.
For me, the photo pulled back the veil of Hollywood glamour and planted me in reality. It enabled me to show myself kindness at a time in my young life when my friends and I would compare our bodies to every actress we saw. It was exactly what I needed to see as a girl only a couple of years away from high school.
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