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WATCH: Pink’s inspiring speech about her daughter will make you cry

Pink gave such an inspiring and beautiful Video Vanguard Award acceptance speech last night and the internet can’t handle it.

The singer recalled a conversation she had with her six-year-old daughter Willow, who by the way, was in the audience with her dad.

The speech came about because Willow had told her mum on the way to school that she was “the ugliest girl she knew” and “looked like a boy with long hair.”

In response, Pink made her a PowerPoint presentation, and filled it with pictures of Prince and David Bowie and Annie Lennox and Janis Joplin: “androgynous rock stars,” she said, “and artists that 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.”

Pink told her daughter that she too gets told that she looks like a boy. “They say that I look like a boy, or I am too masculine, too many opinions, my body is too strong,” she said. But she refuses to change herself to please other people, she explained, and she continues to sell out arenas across the world.

Pink concluded her speech by saying that we don’t have to conform to society’s beauty standards.

“Baby girl, we don’t change,” she said. “We take the gravel in the shell and we make a pearl. We help other people to change, so they can see all kinds of beauty.”

Pink: LOVE. HER.

Taken from GLAMOUR UK. Click here to read the original.

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