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How do you see yourself in the mirror when you look into it?
As long as I'm clean and in good health, I like what I see. Sure, I wish my nose looked a bit less like a baby nose and sometimes my hair is just awful, but other days I can be awestruck by how soft and plump my lips are. I have good parts and not so good parts just like everyone else, and sometimes I look on the not so good and despair, and sometimes I look on the good and rejoice.
Why do you think the bar is set so incredibly high for women?
This ties in with the women as multitaskers - men as "monotaskers" myth; women are supposed to be able to do so much more at the same time. So women are groomed to be both housekeepers and lovers and professionals at the same time - and to look stunning when they do it. It's not one bar, it's a hurdle race.
And can women really live up to this? (some women seem too and they seem so successful)
I think the way to (personal) success is to choose which hurdles to jump and which to run around. Some people have the capacity to jump several, some only a few. The key is to not stumble and get tangled up in a hurdle, because that smarts.
Is anyone here actually living up to this image of the in control and perfectly styled professional women? (i'd like to know how! )
Not me, but I don't have that ambition either. And as long as my bosses don't have a problem with my appearance I don't have a problem either.
How many of you are generally happy with the way you are present yourself phsyically, professionally?
I'm happy. There's always room for improvement, of course. I wish I'd look a bit older and less cute sometimes, it's hard to be taken seriously when you have my babyface, and I wish I was physically stronger. But asides from that? Nah. Details. Someone mentioned something from Oprah about enjoying the present instead of thinking about how awesome your life will be in the hypotetical future when you're perfect, and that's so true. I try to live by that, but I need to remind myself every now and then.
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