Hate Your Body? Drop Acid!
Well, it’s certainly an unconventional approach, but apparently Selma Blair thinks its a good idea.
The Hellboy star admits she is always criticising her looks, and the only thing she likes about her body is her hands. And when filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro suggested that taking drugs would boost her confidence, she agreed. Blair says, “You know what Guillermo thinks? That I should go to Amsterdam and take an acid trip and it would fix my head. I think he could be right you know.
“You know, I’ve done some things to excess but I hate pot and I’ve never done acid or ecstasy. But if I was in the right frame of mind, in a pleasant, creative, chilled-out space, with just the right amount delivered by an Amsterdam technician, that would be incredible.”
Okay as a Dutch person, how did I not know that Amsterdam had acid “technicians”? Or that acid improves self-confidence? I’ve been to Amsterdam many a time without trying any of this stuff; I could have been feeling good about my body years ago.
But seriously, how does Selma Blair not feel good about her body? I mean, obviously everybody should be able to feel good about their bodies, but… look at her. That’s like hearing Helen Mirren is insecure. What kind of world would we live in if that were true?
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Reading the “Beauty Myth” right now and these sort of things just seem so STUPID! I mean, who does she want to look good for? Why? I guess her career is a “beauty career” but Cheezus H. Rice, get some real problems, stat.
Yeah, we look at her and think “gorgeous, hot, sexy” etc. But she probably thinks “small boobs, not ‘glamorous enough,'” or whatever. I’m sure she’s been told similar things, by some boneheaded producer or casting director.
I hate to tell her, but been there done that. When I was much younger (and much, much thinner than I am now) I dropped acid. Several times. Didn’t do a whole hell of a lot for improving my perception of my body (it did, however, convince me that a boyfriend was an asshat and I was better off without him).
Until society quits judging a woman’s worth by her looks/size, women will still be dissatisfied with their bodies/looks unless/until they learn to love themselves as they are, a very difficult proposition with all the bombardment we get every day that women have to look a certain way.
My sister did Acid and believes that she talked to God.
It could work.
*blinks* What gets me is she’s actually serious.
Ohhhh…so I have to go to Amsterdam to find acid?
I’m in Miami, you’d think this being “Party Central” and all, it’d be easy as heck to find!!!
But nooooo…no one even knows what I’m talking about and I am stuck with plain ol’ weed & alcohol. I’m sorry, but I have waaaaaay too much stress ATM and would love just LOVE to trip some balls right ..about…
NOW!!!!
Why do you have to be fat to hate your body? o_O
I mean, you’re looking at a picture of her after a full-on makeover, of course she’s going to look good in front of the cameras.
Hell, she looks pretty good anyway, but sometimes that’s the result of a lot of hard work, either under the knife, or in the gym or kitchen. Sometimes the motivator for that hard work is that they’re never happy with their current status.
Saying that somebody has to be fat to have body image issues is just short-sighted.
vesta: i hear ya. ‘shrooms convinced me a boyfriend was an asshat. I stayed with him for another year, but damn, those ‘shrooms were right.
Honestly, if you have never tripped you don’t know what a mind opening experience it can be. I definitely figured out what an asshole my ex was on shrooms. Also, acid is not legal in Amsterdam. Shrooms were last time I was there, not sure if they still are.
Who cares if she’s thin? I’m thin, and I still have major body hang ups.
Of course, judging from interviews, she also thought her Liz Sherman character in Hellboy 2 was a strong character. I doubt acid would fix that either.
It’s just another reminder that picking on women’s looks is so ingrained in our culture that no matter how rich, how famous, how traditionally gorgeous, how young, or how thin someone is, she still generally hears the critical voices in her head.
No matter how pretty a celebrity is, I’m sure it wouldn’t take much looking to find a poster on the internet somewhere calling her an ugly cow and worse. If your confidence isn’t rock-solid, there are always those worms nibbling….
You find someone who honestly believes that they are beutiful in there heart of hearts, I’ll buy you a new car.
You find someone who has had all their problems solved by drugs, I’ll buy you General Moters.
Never tripped…but a little hit from a joint and I sort of forget that I don’t like my body.
I use it as a way to realize that inside my own head I’m actually pretty happy with myself…all the drug does is strip away all the stuff I worry about on the surface.
…Pot doesn’t really help with the losing weight thing though.
: )
I think she’s incredibly beautiful. Not sure how acid would help – maybe what they really meant was magic mushrooms. Now that could be a positive experience :)
Totally off topic… you’re Dutch? Wow, I’ve been reading here off and on for a few months and never knew.
Groetjes uit Delft!
Wow! They didn’t mention technicians in the Amsterdam guide books.
Groetjes uit Aruba!
She’s an actor. Of COURSE she hates her body. She’s constantly being judged for it. It makes the difference whether she gets a job or not. Her looks make a lot more difference to her career than any talent or intelligence or perception or experience she may or may not have; the slightest negative change, or weight fluctuation, might be enough for a director, or her agent, to tell her she’s uncastable. Signs of aging are signs of the inevitable descent into future unemployability and irrelevance, unless she is very very lucky.
Not that I think acid is the answer, but then again every drug experience I’ve had has involved massive paranoid or other mental breakdown.
What kind of world would we live in if that were true?
Sadly, this one. No woman is immune from internal and external body criticism. It’s what we’re primarily judged on. And as for seeing her in pictures, don’t forget photoshop. You haven’t seen a remotely accurate picture of anyone in print in decades. That’s not to say that she’s not fabulous in real life, just that whatever the flaws are that she exaggerates in her mind are the flaws we’ll never see.
I love her style. Imo she is one of the best-dressed actresses– one of the few who doesn’t bore the hell out of me.
I doubt that acid could help her body-image issues, but it would explain her decision to star in that gawdawful Kath & Kim.
Re: Shinobi’s comment about her sister talking to God whilst on acid…the issue I see is, did the Lord choose to talk to HER in return? If so, did He happen to tell her that since the lady was made in His image, she is perfect as she is…or does God carp about someone’s fat thighs?
Well my family is Dutch, I was born here, but I speak it a little bit. Groetjes! Ongelovelijk! Hee.
Also currently reading the Beauty Myth, and Selma Blair (and all the other gorgeous insecure actresses) feel inadequate because the beauty standard is impossible, that’s the point of the beauty standard. NOBODY is ever good enough.
If a person really wants to “fix their head” as Selma puts it, I’d recommend meditation and clearing thoughts, rather than trying ANY drug.
Drugs are not a mind opening avenue, they’re actually putting you beneath conscious thought.
I’d actually recommend Selma read the book “A New Earth” but hey I doubt that will happen.
How many people take crack/cocaine in order to boost their self confidence and end up an addict with ruined lives?
Drugs as a form of self confidence is a myth which is just as deceiving as the myth that being thin will make you happy.
Drug tripping is mind-opening? Really?
I thought it was more like dreaming while awake. Also, as the perennial *designated driver* among my friends who use drugs, I have to say that my personal experience with people who trip is that, to my sober ears, they sound like complete morons, not open-minded.
But maybe you have to be inside the mind to experience it….
I don’t think acid is likely to be the best thing to help you get over your body insecurity. It is just as likely to magnify it until there’s nothing else. Ecstasy, now maybe you’re talking. Pot makes me eat. Definately not useful for weight loss
I am a portrait photographer and take pictures of a lot of adults, so I can safely say that at least 70% of women hate their bodies, and the other 30% just tolerate their bodies. I have had 14 year old girls who were skinny as a rail almost cry because they thought all the portraits made them look fat. It’s overwhelming trying to understand why sometimes.
My partner and I do A LOT of acid. Well, not a huge amount, but we do it fairly regularly. Neither of us like alcohol, so it is our “relaxing weekend” drug of choice.
I wouldn’t call the experience of tripping monumentally profound, in and of itself, but it can remove you from yourself and consensus reality in such a way that your insecurities get forgotten, at least for the duration of the trip. In my experience, this can be a very eye-opening exercise. I am not a person who typically lives/acts without the nagging voice of insecurity, as hard as I try to overcome it. Simply living and moving through the world without it, for a little while, can be very interesting and catalyzing, if you are in the right frame of mind.
The amount you do matters a lot, though. Higher doses are generally less recreational and more out-of-bodyish. Quality also matters, as does the batch. We have had “flavours” that are extra funny, extra sexy, extra scary, etc. Every one turns out a little differently, (in the sense that wines have signatures, even though the ingredients/methods are largely the same) so each batch is a different trip.
Basically, I wouldn’t call it a magic bullet, but it can certainly be an effective tool. I also don’t think drugs automatically make you “sub conscious”, as one poster said. Sure, some people sound like jackasses when they’re high, but some people sound ridiculous sober. Like so many things, you get out of a trip what you put into it. It can be, in my experience, as effective a tool as meditation. Just as meditation can be equally useless when it is undertaken in the wrong way, or insincerely. I think of (some kinds of) drugs as part of an overall quest for mental and physical health.
So, it might help her, but only if she’s ready to help herself. That all sounded very flaky-hippie-ish, which I swear I’m not. Really.
MR, let’s play fair. I never said doing drugs made users “sub concious.” I said I thought tripping was like dreaming while being awake.
And to clarify: the people I know who trip while I’m sober don’t sound like morons sober. Of course I know some people sound like morons when they are stone sold sober.
People can make their case for doing or not doing drugs.
I agree with you, MR. Drug use does not = magic bullet. Doesn’t necessarily HURT every user, but in my life, I’ve never seen it help any of my loved ones in any demonstrable way.
Seems to be another case of Hollywood’s constant upping of beauty standards, driving another poor actress insane.
I dunno, a lot of fat people think skinny is the main (and almost only) criteria for beauty, but once you get there there are always other hoops to jump through.
Me personally, I think fat people look better fat. It’s undeniable that when Oprah got ultra skinny, she looked sick. When Star Jones lost all that weight, she lost her beautiful face. Al Roker has never looked the same. When people lose a drastic amount, they look sick.
I’m not saying Blair looks sick, I’m just saying that perfection for her might entail putting on a few pounds, but she knows she won’t work in Hollywood if she does it. So she has to work to keep a little man’s body and hate it, for now. Hopefully it evens out for her; I like her style too.