Salma wins U.G.L.Y. awardSalma was recently named the U.G.L.Y. celebrity of the year for 2006. This very prestigious honor was bestowed upon her by the board of Hey U.G.L.Y., the teen self-esteem building nonprofit organization.
Salma's show, Ugly Betty, clinched the vote. Through this successful new television series on ABC, Salma is helping teens see that it is okay to be themselves and that they don't have to be, as she says, "....so beautiful, so skinny, so rich, so famous."
Salma was selected from hundreds of celebrities whose self-esteem building statements are displayed on the Celebrity Quotes page of Hey U.G.L.Y.'s website, http://www.heyugly.org "The Celebrity Quotes page is everyone’s favorite," said Betty Hoeffner, President of Hey U.G.L.Y.
"Teens report feeling better knowing that celebrities like Salma, Ashton Kutcher, Vince Vaughn, Halle Berry, Ryan Cabrera and so many more, struggle with some of the same self-esteem issues they do."
While Salma is doing great things with Ugly Betty, Unilever's "Real Beauty Campaign" for Dove was named the U.G.L.Y. company of the year.
We applaud the work that Salma has done. Too often, teens are taking anit-depressant medication and Salma is helping to build esteem without the use of chemicals.
