Chloe Bennet Reacts to SK-II’s Film The Expiry Date and Gets Real About Age Pressure
Released on 04/30/2018
Comparison is the thief of happiness.
It's easy to compare yourself.
So often women feel like they need to be defined
by a relationship or by work or by family
and not just by who they are.
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In Asia, there's definitely a specific set of
societal norms that you're supposed to be like.
In America, we have to have a family, have kids,
have a career, have all of this before you're a certain age
because I think every woman
no matter where you are in the world feels that.
I've always been someone who's put
the age expectations kind of on myself.
I guess I've never felt like I fit the age
that I was supposed to be, so at 15 I left my house,
I left Chicago and moved to China by myself.
And I didn't feel like I was too young,
it didn't feel wrong, it felt like
this was the maturity level I was ready to go and do this.
I was in a relationship for about four years
at a younger age and he was older than me
and I remember thinking like, oh it's marriage time,
like this is when people get married,
even though I wasn't ready for marriage.
It wasn't coming from within me,
it was coming from everyone else's pressure of what,
where the relationship should be going at a certain point
even though I clearly wasn't ready for that.
I turn 26 in few weeks and someone was like
well it's maybe, maybe about that time to, you know,
find a guy and have kids 'cause you're gonna be 30 soon.
And I was like, I, okay, soon feels relative
'cause that's in four years but also it's so backwards
to think that because you're getting older as a woman
that now your fun is over and your job as someone
who makes other humans is now beginning.
It's something that I think women are now ready
to stand up against and say you know what, no,
I'll actually be the one that decides.
I think the moment that resonated with me the most
in the film is when you see all these women
really deciding to take their destiny into their own hands
and make that decision to be true to themselves
and go look, this is who I am, if you don't like it,
when she gets up from the date and she leaves her date
and she walks out, that's such a powerful moment for anyone
who's had a version of that,
whether they're standing up to their boss,
or their friend, or posting something online
that they maybe felt scared to do before,
and I think everyone has a version of leaving the date.
There's this underlying pressure to be
what everyone else thinks you should be
and in reality is, is you're in charge of your own destiny.
You're in charge of your happiness
and it should be up to you.
I'm defining myself right now and it has nothing to do
with a man or my job or whether I have kids or not,
whether I'm married or not,
and it just has everything to do with who I am,
and that's awesome, I wish that for every person.
Starring: Chloe Bennet
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