With this new project, Michaels's goal is to show her fans that they're beautiful just the way they are and that they don't need to change to fit in with outdated beauty ideals; that the standards need to change to include them.
"We live in a society where only the perfect parts of you are shown, and if you don't think you have perfect parts, you have to make perfect parts," Michaels told POPSUGAR."I want people to know that stretch marks are beautiful. Freckles are beautiful. Crooked teeth are beautiful. Body hair is beautiful. Scars are beautiful."
The idea to start her own digital cover to highlight real beauty came to her after having a revelation about the societal norms she has conformed to."It kind of started with my armpits," Michaels said. While traveling in Paris, she forgot a razor, which led to her armpit hair growing out."When I got home, I shaved, and I was like, 'I don't like this. Why don't I like this?'" That's when she made the decision to stop removing the hair under her arms.
Still, her decision wasn't met without some pushback. Unfortunately, she received numerous unsolicited comments from people on the internet projecting their feelings onto her body, like after her
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