I discovered that I have a great passion for radio and this is teaching me: I am acquiring great confidence and dialectical skills. I love how the ra… - Paola Di Benedetto

Ho avuto dei problemi ad accettare il mio essere donna, il mio corpo che cambiava. Mi sono sempre nascosta sotto capi larghi, e in parte lo faccio ancora. Da fuori, non si percepisce, la televisione restituisce altro ed io la felpa oversize evito di metterla in pubblico. Mi è sempre rimasta, però, una tendenza a voler nascondere anziché mostrare.

Today, the image always comes first, and it is enough to look at the women on our television to realize it. I don't want to make a bundle of all the grass, but having a nice and seductive image is necessary. I don't even know if it is wrong: a beautiful woman is right to be appreciated also for her own aesthetics. The problem occurs when, at an audition and with the same talent, the girl with the dress is taken instead of the girl in the suit. I realized I had a weapon available, my body, and I decided to use it. It is wrong, however, that talent alone is not enough.

The social world has become more raw than it was a few years ago and, I believe, the credit goes to the new generations. They don't want to see perfection, they hate the stereotype of the all-beautiful always. If my mother or grandmother had seen an advertisement for a cream sponsored by a model with perfect skin, they would certainly have thought they could buy it. Now, thanks to social media, in advertisements and in photos and Stories we can talk about acne problems, about skins that are anything but perfect.