Watch This: P!nk’s Inspiring VMAs Speech

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“There are many kinds of beauty.”

P!nk’s heartwarming acceptance speech during the recently concluded 2017 MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) is making waves in the Internet because of its beautiful and heartrending message. The inspiration of her message, however, is even more heartbreaking because it stemmed from her six-year-old daughter’s confession who told P!nk one day, “I’m the ugliest girl I know. I look like a boy with long hair.”

P!nk shared how she made a PowerPoint presentation of artists such as Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Freddie Mercury, Annie Lennox, Prince, Janis Joplin, George Michael, and Elton John to illustrate a point. She explained that these are rock stars and artists who have been fun of but have chosen to inspire people with their work. They are artists who “live their truth, are probably made fun of every day of their lives, and carry on, and wave their flag, and inspire the rest of us.”

She explained further to her daughter that in the past, she herself had been made fun of because of her masculine appearance or strong body and numerous opinions.  But P!nk explained that in spite of how other people view us, “We don’t change. We take the gravel and the shell and we make a pearl. And we help other people to change so they can see more kinds of beauty.”

Watch P!nk’s speech below in full.

P!nk was awarded the 2017 Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award. She also performed a medley of her hits which included “Get The Party Started”, “Raise Your Glass”, “So What”, “Just Give Me a Reason”, “Perfect”, “What About Us”, “Don’t Let Me Get Me”, “Blow Me (One Last Kiss).” Check out her performance below.

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