Alicia Keys is a force of nature. The singer-songwriter has been awarded a total of 15 Grammy Awards, and it's highly likely that there will be more in the future. She's also a songwriter, an actress, and an activist, so there's seemingly no end to her talents.
More recently, Keys has been interrogating the beauty standards that celebrity women are held to, and has decided to do something about it. In an editorial on Lenny, she opened up about it, saying, "Every time I left the house, I would be worried if I didn't put on makeup: What if someone wanted a picture?? What if they POSTED it??? These were the insecure, superficial, but honest thoughts I was thinking. And all of it, one way or another, was based too much on what other people thought of me." Then, after a bare-faced photo shoot with a photographer, she began to see how beautiful she was without makeup, in all of her natural glory. And the shoot was magic. "I swear it is the strongest, most empowered, most free, and most honestly beautiful that I have ever felt," she wrote, reflecting on the feeling.
Keys won't be kowtowing to anyone ever again. She wrote, "'Cause I don't want to cover up anymore. Not my face, not my mind, not my soul, not my thoughts, not my dreams, not my struggles, not my emotional growth. Nothing." And we're ready for this revolution.
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