Three X Girls Share What Changed Their Definition of Beauty and Confidence
When perfectionism is the culture’s standard of beauty and confidence, how do believers respond to the temptation to mimic this ideal image? Harmony Dust, Crissy Moran, and Bronwen Healy know first-hand the difficulty of the battle between what the world is telling them and what God says is true.
On an episode of X Girls, Ashley Abercrombie talks with Dust, Moran, and Healy about the sex industry’s impact on their confidence and definition of beauty, along with their journeys from being told to “sell their youth” to being the best version of who God created them to be.
Because the sex industry is the epitome of this image-driven culture that redefines what a woman should look like based on what sells, Dust, ex-stripper and founder of Treasures, says “it’s a losing battle … to try to look like something else,” affirming her confidence “comes from my security in God.”
Encouraged to “stay tiny,” Healy, an ex-prostitute and founder of Hope Foundation, went from basing her beauty on culture’s standards to “seeing beauty in all things,” as she surrendered her image to God.
Ex-porn star, Moran, also notes she went from thinking “nobody was beautiful unless they looked like a movie star” to celebrating the unique beauty found in everyone.
Because no one person should get to decide the definition of beauty and confidence, Dust, Moran, and Healy now view it as plethora of things such as serving, having joy, and maintaining character pleasing to God.
While jealousy and competition still sometimes stand in the way of living from their security in Jesus, all three women agree they must keep taking every thought captive and replace the lies with truth when it comes to their self-image:
“We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ” (2 Corinthians 10:5, ESV).
Once they started digging deep into God’s Word and began valuing what God values, a perfect appearance was no longer the standard they were striving for.
Although all three women went through unimaginable trials to get to where they are now, Healy reminds viewers, what comes out when you’re “squeezed,” that’s where confidence and beauty lie.
You don’t want to miss the treasures of truth in this episode and the whole series. It opens minds and eyes to the tragedy of the sex industry and human trafficking, but points to the overarching hope and redemption found in Christ alone through each life brought from slavery into a freedom evidently flowing from Dust, Moran, and Healy’s bright lights in the world.
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