Trisha Yearwood shares makeup-free photo, talks aging in the public eye
Trisha Yearwood is showing her fans her natural look and making a point about appearances on social media.
After the country star, 56, shared a glam selfie on Tuesday, she received plenty of compliments praising her look. The next day, she shared another post referencing the photo, alongside an important message about the images seen online.
"The selfie I posted earlier was after a photo shoot, so glam goddess @goodwillglendastyle had done hair and makeup for me, I had great lighting, and a filter!" she wrote, referencing the selfie.
Alongside a snap of her makeup-free self, she wrote, "It's important for you to know that I have dream days like that, and I also have really "real" days like tonight."
"This is me, after a hard workout with my trainer, no glam, no lighting, no filter," she wrote alongside the bare-faced photograph.
Although Yearwood is comfortable showing off her unfiltered self on social media, she has admitted that it can be difficult to brush off the comments and critiques that people make about her appearance -- at any age.
"I think about it a lot," she recently shared in an interview with NewBeauty. "Especially when I look back and see pictures of myself when I was 28 and remember I wasn't happy with how I looked."
"As women, we're so hard on ourselves!" she went on to say. "We're never thin enough, we're never pretty enough, we're never, whatever, fill in the blank."
Looking at those pictures now, she said it's difficult to even remember exactly what it is she didn't like about them. "I'm like, 'Oh my God, there's not a line on your face!' ... Why were you so hard on yourself?'"
But over the course of her career, the singer says she has learned an important lesson about beauty: It's important to focus on making yourself happy, rather than trying to please everyone else.
"I learned a long time ago that, no matter how I feel about myself, somebody is going to love it and someone is going to hate it, so I have to base how I feel on how I actually feel about myself -- not how someone else feels about me," she said.
