"I know many beautiful people and their lives are just so terrible. They feel so uncomfortable with themselves. Being comfortable is not about what you look like, but how you feel"
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The subtext is about the economy of looking. Beauty, especially in film, is a currency that buys attention while also inviting appraisal, projection, and erosion of privacy. “They feel so uncomfortable with themselves” suggests the trap: when the world treats your appearance as your value, your interior life can start to feel like a neglected tenant. Comfort becomes conditional, contingent on angles, aging, scrutiny - a selfhood constantly renegotiated under fluorescent judgment.
Then she flips the frame: comfort isn’t aesthetic, it’s emotional. Not “confidence,” the buzzword, but comfort - lower-stakes, more humane, a state of not being at war with your body. In a culture that sells self-acceptance as a product and insecurity as a subscription model, Bellucci’s point is bracingly unmarketable: you can’t contour your way out of discomfort. You have to feel your way out.
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| Topic | Self-Love |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Bellucci, Monica. (2026, January 18). I know many beautiful people and their lives are just so terrible. They feel so uncomfortable with themselves. Being comfortable is not about what you look like, but how you feel. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-know-many-beautiful-people-and-their-lives-are-23899/
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Bellucci, Monica. "I know many beautiful people and their lives are just so terrible. They feel so uncomfortable with themselves. Being comfortable is not about what you look like, but how you feel." FixQuotes. January 18, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-know-many-beautiful-people-and-their-lives-are-23899/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I know many beautiful people and their lives are just so terrible. They feel so uncomfortable with themselves. Being comfortable is not about what you look like, but how you feel." FixQuotes, 18 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-know-many-beautiful-people-and-their-lives-are-23899/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.










