A first , QVC made me cry. - Page 2

chrystaltree · ‎05-10-2010

I think she grew up at the end of the blue eyed-blonde being the standard of beauty in this country. I suppose if she was in a sea of blonde ingenues, she would have felt inadequate. But then the dark hair/dark eye/full brows came into fashion and she had what everyone wanted and her's was natural. Whatever. It's that Bare All campaign and they probably all had to come up with a sad story and that's all she had to work with.

MW in Iowa · ‎03-10-2010

That is good SilleeMe , but sometimes it is tough growing up being different , i am just glad i didn't grow up in the age of social media. It seems even harder for kids in school now. There has always been bullies in school but now they sit behind a phone or computer and tear others down for not being the norm.

SilleeMee · ‎05-22-2016

I think this thread needs to get gone.

icezeus · ‎10-30-2010

It did not make me want to cry, but I felt that she was very sincere and a authentic moment.

qbetzforreal · ‎08-28-2010

@SilleeMee wrote:
Being different doesn't make me feel inadequate and it never has.

That's you.

qbetzforreal · ‎08-28-2010

@SilleeMee wrote:
I think this thread needs to get gone.

Why?

webbgarner1 · ‎06-13-2017

I respect her feelings but I know the region she grew up in very well. There is no abscence of brown people, biracial, multicultrural persons, american indian , latino etc. It is a diversified area.

MW in Iowa · ‎03-10-2010

Yes this thread needs to go , i would never have posted it if i thought it would be a problem , i will be more careful next time not to post anything that could be problematic , so that would be almost never. Back to Beauty and TV and Movies.

Curlstotame · ‎04-29-2010

@MW in Iowa wrote:
I caught the opening of Kourtney's new show , and she talked about growing up in an area that she didn't see any one that looked like her, being Persian and when she found fashion it changed her whole outlook on life. We take for granite when we are the majority. Any way i was really moved.

When I was growing up the "majority" of girls around me were thin. I was not. I too didn't see any one that "looked like me". And "fashion changed her life"? Fashion changed my life too. My mother bought my clothes in the chubby department. Embarrassing and exiling to say the least. And some find her story "touching"?....."moved to tears". Really? Children, adolescents, young people all have difficulties, struggles, painful and challenging experiences. Some have speech impediments, deformities, learning difficulties, debilitating illnesses as well as racial differences. Growing up we have all felt like a square peg trying to fit in the round hole. We've all longed to "be like others". To be like the "popular kids". To be accepted for who we are and not experience the pain of rejection. To use your experience as an intro to sell clothing or anything else for that matter seems shallow. Kourtney, you're supposed to be a specialist in your field. Presenting the item should not be about you. So, "fashion changed your life, and your whole outlook on life". What about those who could not afford to throw themselves into the same comfort you discovered? Can you not sell the product based on the Quality of the item? The Value of the item? And the Convenience of purchasing the item from QVC? That is what the company was founded on. Not the sharing of a hosts personal experiences designed to make one feel, what? Wrong for not including the Persian girl amongst the American girls? Guilty and compassion for this now privileged individual, when she once felt not so privileged. It's fine to say fashion is a passion of yours, but to link it to a "life changer" because you didn't see any Persian girls like you is not fine. Growing up is tough for all. Any race, any size, anything that makes us so called "different".