14 DAY TRIAL // Tracy Anderson is a celebrity trainer whose A-list clients have helped her become a sort of celebrity herself. She’s worked with Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow, but also with Jennifer Lopez and Kim Kardashian, and she boasts of having the secret to getting the “perfect” body.
No matter what you might think from the images you’ve seen in the media, it isn’t skinny and it isn’t universally applicable to all women. According to Anderson, speaking to Health magazine, “‘hot’ is not defined by a height or weight or measurement,” but rather by having the ability to become the best you.
Vanity is the “fad” that’s most hurting women today
This is something that both famous and regular women don’t seem to grasp: they shouldn’t aspire to be something they’re not, to have a body they were not born with. They should simply strive to work with what they got and improve on it, and become healthy in body and mind.
Perfection doesn’t exist, Tracy says. All we can do is focus on our health and on improving ourselves every single day, and we will see the results soon.
Ironically, she blames the culture of celebrity for this skewed image of beauty regular women have.
“It’s called celebrity. We should love their work,” she says. “But to blow up their importance to the level of obsession takes away from our own beauty and our own gifts. There’s a disease here - the disease is vanity, insecurity and the lengths of unhealthy behaviors people go to to achieve what they think is beautiful. The disease of ‘I’m not worth anything unless I look like that person over there’.”
The bottom line is that every woman is worth something and that she should never try to measure said worth by comparing herself to others.
Body diversity is good, welcome
Though in earlier years, Anderson was often accused of “fat-shaming” regular women and even new moms by speaking of “problem areas” and slacking off when it came to dieting and working out, she seems to have mellowed out a bit.
In the same interview, she professes she’s all for body diversity, because it goes with what she’s saying about beauty and perfection: they come in all shapes and sizes.
On this note, she praises reality star Kim Kardashian and actress Lena Dunham for landing covers of fashion bible Vogue magazine: in an industry that’s still focused on equating skinny with beautiful, it’s refreshing to see curvy women front fashion magazines.
Real beauty shines from inside, Tracy says. However, because she makes money from shilling her Method, if you want others to notice your inner beauty, it probably wouldn’t hurt to work out following her plan.