KC Concepcion, Megan Young talk of family, insecurities during sale launch

E-COMMERCE platform Shopee is holding its beauty fair until June 27. The third-party buy-and-sell platform will offer discounts on beauty products on the app until the aforementioned date.
Because the app’s sale will be about beauty products, the company tapped two speakers to talk about their own journey with beauty and their struggles with society’s standards of beauty.
KC Concepcion is the daughter that fans of Sharon Cuneta and Gabby Concepcion in the 1980s wanted and waited for after the marriage of their favorite actress. While that marriage ended, it seemed Ms. Concepcion didn’t rely on her parents’ star power to get where she is. She did have to audition to be an MTV VJ, for example, she said during the Shopee beauty fair launch last week.
Ms. Concepcion went on to become an actress, and now endorses Palmolive shampoo and conditioner.
When asked about who influenced her standards of beauty today, she said, “I think it was the people around me; growing up with successful women, growing up with women who have such high standards of beauty.”
“When you grow up with women who appreciate beauty and hard work and people, I guess that’s something you catch.”
Ms. Concepcion does yoga and pilates five or six times a week to maintain her figure. As for her inner beauty, she takes care of that too: “Learn to give yourself time to just be: stop doing, doing, doing, all the time.”
While Ms. Concepcion is the pampered child of her family and her parents’ fans, life wasn’t so easy for Miss World 2013 Megan Young.
The Filipino-American actress grew up in Zambales and then moved to Manila to pursue an acting career in the early 2000s.
During the launch, she talked about her insecurities growing up: being too thin and having lips that were too thick (this according to her). “I’m in a relationship with my insecurities,” she said. “At such a young age, I was already conscious about my body.”
She talked about how her journey to become a pageant queen shaped her and let her know who she really was. By knowing who she was, she didn’t let the noisy hype of pageant preparations change her completely. “By knowing who I was, and the things that I like, that’s when I felt empowered.” — Joseph L. Garcia