Media-Savvy Experts on Confidence

After searching through hundreds of scientific journals about what the experts have to say about self-confidence and its relationship to success, I thought: why look any further than mainstream media to discover experts on self-confidence?

Celebrities live under microscopes are constantly bombarded with criticism, but somehow they continually rise above the gossip…straight to the top of the music charts and box offices. Let’s look at two strong, media-savvy women who have spoken up recently about the importance of self-confidence.


Shape, one of the most popular women’s magazines on the market, showcased Jennifer Love Hewitt on their cover this month…and guess that their feature article was about? You guessed it! Self-confidence.


Hewitt shares her tips on how to get confidence – and how it has affected her life. She says that feeling good about herself physically helps her feel confident about herself – which is what matters in the entertainment industry.

She started the interview by sharing that she doesn’t feel confident all the time. She told Shape the she has days where she looks in the mirror and says, “Ugh, really?!?” I’m sure most readers are like me and think: I would never think that if I looked like her, but her down-to-earth attitude helps make her advice relatable.

Some of her best tips to looking good and feeling even better? Hewitt says to make healthy living a priority in your life, don’t obsess over your weight, encourage yourself, find a creative escape, and add a spark to your workout.

Her emphasis on a positive attitude and a healthy lifestyle helps motivate her to keep going when the pressure is the worst. Even though most of us aren’t in a showdown with the paparazzi every day, we all can use her tips to help us face our daily stress and pressures.

Sure, we all need confidence to get us through class assignments, societal expectations, and tiffs with the people us, but what about when people personally attack you? Well, Jessica Simpson had a thing or two to say about that after a tasteless commercial aired on Fox bashing her.

The commercial featured several Dallas Cowboy football players making fun of Simpson’s weight gain after her breakup with Tony Romo. When asked about how she felt about the national commercial, she said that she would not let it affect her because she has too much self-confidence to stoop to that level.

“Self-Confidence is something my parents instilled in me at a young age,” she said. Her “self-confidence” speech aired on every celebrity news show this week (which means her voice influenced thousands of viewers).
Scientists can study self-esteem all day wrong and fill volumes and volumes worth of scientific evidence and experiments, but their voice impacts only a fraction of the people compared to people in the public eye.

Every single person, no matter his or her age, socio-economic status, race, or religion, faces stress and criticism in his or her daily life. That’s one of the reasons why it is so important to point out positive role models in the media, like Jennifer Love Hewitt and Jessica Simpson. They are experts in the field of self-confidence and have practical advice for how to manage those pressures.