I just watched the Rihanna interview on 20/20 with Diane Sawyer and I must say it was outstanding. Rihanna’s maturity is amazing…she’s strong, beautiful, intelligent and resilient. I felt as if I were watching a mature 30-year old, not a young 20-something (in the age of Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan). So much about the abuse has been played out in the media already, like a bad country musical.
During the interview, I was extremely attentive to Rihanna’s self-esteem. It was authentic not a façade camouflaged with designer hand bags, luxury cars and trendy new fashion like so many women young and seasoned alike. Even after the abuse, the vacation in Miami, and her love for Chris to which she is still annoyed, she decided to leave.
Sure we see Rihanna’s cutting edge hair, dynamic personality, and trendsetting fashion and think “you have to be confident to rock that.” But many people say they have self-esteem, some even present themselves with great self-esteem but real self-esteem looks in the mirror and says…I don’t deserve to get beat up, I don’t deserve to be mistreated, I don’t deserve to be misguided, I don’t deserve anything less than what God intended and has extended to me already and I should expect nothing less. Real self-esteem puts an action behind “the image” they present to everyone else. Hooray to Rihanna for leading the charge on REAL self-esteem and not the façade so many put out.
