Beyond the ‘call of beauty’

ANGELINA JOLIE

BEAUTY, they say, is its own excuse for being. But, once in a rare while, we come across truly lovely ladies whose quality and worth go beyond their already admirable physical perfection.

Unlike other women who do their best and sometimes their worst to hold back the wages and rages of age, truly beautiful women remain so because they know that they are not defined by their looks, but by the totality of their value and service to others.

Thus, we choose to describe them as exceptional women who have gone above and beyond the call of beauty.

On the international celebrity scene, one of their prime exemplars is Angelina Jolie. She first became popular and famous as a singularly lovely and sultry film star, but eventually lost favor with some fans due to her controversial, “black and bleak” lifestyle and life choices.

Happily, she managed to eventually recover lost ground, and her stellar career rose even higher with a convincing list of hit starrers to her name.

Balance

Best of all, after she regained her life and career balance and found the light, she realized that her celebrity status wasn’t just a delightful perk, but was actually a power that she could dynamically use to focus her adoring public’s attention on important causes and advocacies that urgently need everyone’s support and patronage.

Along with her similarly enlightened life partner, Brad Pitt, Jolie has generated strong public support for many key advocacies, like Doctors Without Borders, the Lost Boys of Sudan, the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (Unicef), Millennium Villages, and multiple causes promoting and defending women.

MARGIE MORAN

Indeed, Jolie has been so visible and active in using “celebrity power” to effect global change that she has inspired many other stars to do the same—thus exponentially increasing the scope and reach of her enlightened influence.

On the local celebrity circuit, some famous beauties have similarly gone beyond pulchritude to make the world a truly more beautiful place to live in. They are paced in the field of arts and culture by former Miss Universe Margie Moran.

Even before her standout beauty made her internationally celebrated, Margie was already a performing artist, a dancer who appeared in stage musicals like “Promises, Promises.”

After she won her title, she resumed her involvement in the arts, producing musicals staged in Manila and Davao City and other parts of Mindanao.
In the country’s second largest island, she has also made valuable contributions in boosting tourism, peace initiatives, women’s rights, poverty alleviation and housing for the homeless.

Margie has become even busier as the president of Ballet Philippines, which showcases and trains Filipino dancers, with whom she identifies most fully, given her own passion for dance, despite the passage of many years.

Truly beautiful Angelina and Margie, take a well-deserved (pas de deux) bow!