On the cover of the Beauty issue of Harper’s Bazaar this month is supermodel Linda Evangelista’s quote: “Beauty is Earned.”

It’s not a given that women feel beautiful about ourselves.

The fat on supermodel Linda Evangelista’s skin hardened after she used the Coolsculpting technique to tighten her body that was getting older and out of shape.

No longer beautiful in the way society always valued her to be the damaging side effect of Coolsculpting sent Evangelista into talk therapy.

Too sad it is that ordinarily women put everyone else’s needs first or worse cater to others instead of our own health wealth and happiness.

In a coming blog entry, I’ll talk about Christine Platt’s insight shared in her new newsletter about how each of us should act “self-ish.”

Too often supermodels are only human like we are. They travel the globe on photo shoots and spend countless hours racking up air miles. Even when closer to home their schedules are tightly packed and could be frantic.

Having to smile at the camera when inside you’re insecure about the very body everyone loves to look at.

Evangelista wrote that no one in her history of modeling told her the exact words: “You’re beautiful.” It was always a comment on how the clothes looked on her.

Evangelista vowed to tell her son and everyone else: “You’re beautiful” every chance she gets today.

There should be no judgment here about whether Evangelista took care of her health all these years.

In the next blog entry, I’ll talk more about looking in the mirror and liking what we see.

Of course everyone living on earth is beautiful. There’s no doubt about this. We can start by telling our loved ones and friends that they are beautiful.