Are You Beautiful, No Matter What They Say?

[amandajoyce118]

I apologize in advance. Because I'm going to get a bit preachy for this entry. I can't help it. Don't you have those topics that get under your skin, stick in your brain, and then they just keep popping up around you and you have to talk about them? Yes, this is one of those.
You see, for Portrait's October issue, we've devoted all (or really, most

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[alkmene]

Funny that you mentioned The Breakfast Club because it has always been one of those teen movies that, while I enjoyed it as a whole, I absolutely loathed how Ally Sheedy's character shifted: from a cute and quirky basket case (one of John Hughe's more original teen characters IMO) into a make-up wearing beauty. I'd always thought she was beautiful and unique (and I could actually relate to her) but for her to go through a 180 transformation like that? For the jock she didn't seem interested in until the very end of the story? Pffft. I understand it's a movie and all but I didn't think her change was believable for me.

[amandajoyce118]

Exactly. Even John Hughes, who was supposed to be all about accepting people for who they were, put in a movie makeover. It's kind of ridiculous.