Perfect is Boring book review

Trya Banks’ mom gives her the best advice, and this blog is a few things that I just absolutely loved. Today, we're talking all about rejection, how to get over it, how to be who you are, all of the stuff. So I am reviewing the book Perfect is Boring. This book is written by Tyra Banks and her mother, Carolyn. The genre of the book is non-fiction. The themes of the book are biography, success, and self-improvement. I wasn't expecting to enjoy this book as much as I did. 

There's a lot about parenting in here, and I guess I should have expected it because her mom is the co-author. Miss Carolyn London is sharing her advice to her daughter and advice about parenting, releaed in 2018. Here are a few of the biggest lessons for me:

First: you are not rejected. The thing is rejected. 

There's a chapter in the book about Tyra Banks as she gets older. Right? She starts out being this model, super super teeny thin, really, really tall, and then all of a sudden, eighteen or nineteen, and Tyra gets curves and breasts, and all of a sudden, she's not getting called for shows, she's not getting picked up. And Carolyn, her mom, made her call and asked every casting director or every booker what was wrong, why weren't they casting her. And it turns out, they were like, “you got too much booty, or you're getting fat, or you need to lose a little weight.”

So what Carolyn decides to accept it, as in, ‘Okay, this is what you look like. Who is looking for the body that you have?” And that is actually how she got connected with Victoria's Secret.

Okay, this is what you look like. Who is looking for the body that you have?” And that is actually how she got connected with Victoria's Secret.

Victoria's Secret wants breasts. Victoria's Secret is looking for booty. Oh, we're going to take the current assets that you have and go over there. Tyra Banks was not rejected. They were rejecting her look for the runway. So I know that sounds like it was still rejecting her, but it wasn't. You weren't fit for this show, but you could still be a model, right? And that was a great lesson. 

The second great lesson is the period party.

Menstrual cycles are controversial in the United States, as people don't talk about them very often. I don't know why. Carolyn told me, “talk about it, celebrate it. You are now technically a woman as in your body would be able to produce an egg to have a child if you wanted to.” Your body is now experiencing different things it didn't experience before. She threw a party for her daughter and she passed out pads and tampons. She had her friends come over and they were talking about the menstrual cycles and periods. They normalized the experience. Carolyn wanted to embrace everything Tyra didn't know about, turn it on its head, and make it a fun thing. And that was amazing to me. 

Carolyn wanted to embrace everything Tyra didn't know about, turn it on its head, and make it a fun thing. And that was amazing to me. 

The last lesson that I love about the book Perfect is Boring is embracing who you are.

Now, I grew up watching Tyra Banks. First, she was on the Will Smith show, then she had America's Next Top Mode,l which I was obsessed with. I never wanted to be a model, but I was just fascinated.

I was fascinated by how most models weren't your typical beautiful, receiving double-takes on the street. Tyra would see the bone structure of a face or something in the grittiness of a contestant and know that they could become a star and a runway model. Tyra Banks has changed since America’s Next Top Model aired from 20023 through 2018. She has matured, she has a son, her relationships are different, her mom is now a grandmother, and their lives have changed and evolved. 

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In the book, Carolyn and Tyra talk about embracing your gray hair, embracing the fact that your body looks different, embracing the fact that your career looks different, and embracing the fact that the relationship between mother and child looks different. So you need to embrace who you are now. 

Regardless of whether you have cosmetic surgery, color your hair, and wear makeup, do not run and hide from who you are because you will still be you under the makeup. Under the plastic surgery, you have to be who you are. Make sure that you are comfortable with who you are because perfect is boring, and we don't want to be boring. 

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I would reread this book. The parenting advice is phenomenal. It's so good. In fact, I'm sure that as I keep rereading it, even the Tyra Banks parts will be even more relevant to me, but I will definitely reread this book. If you are still fighting with the fact that you think perfect is fun, and why can't you be perfect, check out this video here, where I talk all about how to have radical confidence. Yes, radical confidence. 

Until the next book review, 

Kyla