It’s easy to look at women in the spotlight and focus on their physical appearance; when they step out onto the red carpet, their hair and make-up is pristine, their gowns are glamorous, and their jewellery expensive. Their Instagram accounts are filled with idyllic snapshots of them going about their day-to-day life – and the popular #IWokeUpLikeThis hashtag has fed into this myth of everyday ‘perfection’.

Blake Lively, however, is here to remind us all that there is no such thing as perfect.

Addressing the unfair beauty standards that society forces onto women everywhere, she told Refinery 29: “What you’re seeing on red carpets and in magazines takes a lot of effort and a lot of people.

“People don’t understand that it’s all very constructed, [and] what little girls are seeing isn’t what [celebrities] look like when they wake up in the morning – even though it’s no less beautiful.”

Blake Lively wants her daughters to challenge today’s unrealistic beauty standards