Am I Right Ladies?! offers a delightful combination of romantic longing and self-possessed empowerment, as Omielan continues to bemoan her lack of success in love, while refusing to change anything about herself to conform to society's beauty norms.
"She was one of the true, real characters of popular music and although there has been pressure on women in music to conform to the music business she was always herself and said 'I am what I am'".
Renée, who conceals her true self to conform to the lowly image of typical concierges, introduces herself as "a widow, short, ugly, chubby", with "bunions on my feet and, on certain difficult mornings, it seems, the breath of a mammoth".
But Smith has decided to speak up for herself and for other girls who don't want to conform to the body images constantly displayed on catwalks and in magazines.
This became the beginning of the end of the woman I had been; a woman who had defied oppression, who had never confined herself to stereotypes, suddenly in a position where she was expected to conform to traditional behaviour associated with Pakistani political wives and first ladies.
In working with Rossellini, she was trading the dramatic, glamorous styles of studio performance for a more immediate, personal mode of acting, one that did not call for her to conform to the dictates of scripts but allowed her to model characters closely on herself.
The actress and singer addressed the pressure to conform to the double standards faced by high profile women, and said she frequently reminded herself not to bow to these expectations.
She would never use "flair" to express herself in real life, and agonizes over utilizing the requisite number of pins she needs to conform to the restaurant's uniform code.
Colloquially, it means conform.
