Is beauty a curse?

Hey Guys!
So i'm Allie, this is my first blog! Been meaning to set it up for ages but unfortunately I am one of those annoyingly scatterbrained people that have to be nagged to with in an inch of their lives to do some things! I'm often nicknamed fairy godmother or problem solver (this is because i like to help people to sort out their problems). In my blog I want to get some debates going and help advise people on pretty much anything really, so any questions you have or anything you want me to discuss in my next blog let me know what you're thinking!

Is Anyone Cursed by Beauty?

Samantha (pictured above) caused a lot of controversy after publishing her article but is she right, is she plagued by her good looks? 
so for my first post i thought i'd talk about the story that's got everyone talking this week, the controversial article written by Samantha Brick in the Daily Mail.The newspaper received 1.5 million hits online and over 5,000 comments most of them scathing.
Samantha claims life as a beautiful woman is difficult and that she has lost friendships over jealousy relating to her good looks. In her column she recalls past experiences of kindness for example having the bill waved in a restaurant and on one occasion having a stranger purchase her train ticket for her simply because she is beautiful. 41 year old Samantha says she often gets bottles of wine sent to her table in restaurants by unknown male admirers and that her beauty has caused friction with friends who are envious of her good looks.
My take on it is this: Self esteem and self confidence are wonderful qualities! We have so many teenagers in the UK suffering from conditions like Anorexia Nervosa, Body Dismorphia or resorting to methods of self harm out of a sense of poor self worth, it is all too rare that we see someone like Samantha Brick displaying a healthy level of confidence in herself. 
That said I agree there is a fine line between confidence and arrogance and if you have to think "Hmm will my ego and me fit in that room at the same time?" there is an issue, however i think Samantha was genuinely writing about her own experiences, and in context she is 41 years old, she lives in a small village in the south of France where the average age is 78 she is likely to be perceived as very pretty - her experiences were condensed into a small piece during which she recalled a few incidences and i am likely to agree with her that those who sent nasty emails or tweets have simply showed everyone (with an ounce of common sense) that maybe they are in fact jealous, or just very unpleasant if they feel strongly enough to send a mean email attacking someone they don't even know for writing an article from her own experience well to anyone who wrote those articles: IT'S CALLED A FREE PRESS DARLING! and DON'T BULLY OTHERS, which essentially what this hate campaign is a load of people who haven't even read the article and understood her message have decided to victimize her for no apparent reason.
I think everyone should have confidence in themselves not just their appearance but in their abilities and qualities as a human being and it's a sad day when real issues like bullying which leads to self esteem issues in extreme cases resulting in conditions like Anorexia are overlooked so that we can criticize someone like Samantha for having self confidence the very quality we supposedly encourage in order to bully her a behaviour we supposedly frown upon. Lets fix our nation of teens with low self esteem before we disrespect someone with confidence eh?
Leave a comment and let me know what you think, have you ever struggled with being beautiful? Is Samantha telling your story? 


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Auntie Allie xoxo