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" Actress, model, and former Seventeen cover girl Milla Jovovich has superstar confidence now, but growing up, the actress in the upcoming movie The Three Musketeers (in theaters October 21) was insecure like the rest of us. Here&amp;#039;s how Milla conquered criticism and learned to believe in herself. Find Your Passion: &amp;quot;For me, the most important thing to have confidence is to be disciplined, to be really good at something. You have to find your passion. When you&amp;#039;re good at something, you feel on top of the world. Nobody can take that away from you. If you&amp;#039;re playing guitar, or painting, or reading books \u2014 whatever it is that you love to do \u2014 put as much time and discipline into that because no one will be able to take away your education and what you&amp;#039;ve learned and how hard you worked to do it well.&amp;quot; Don&amp;#039;t Take Criticism Too Seriously: &amp;quot;Take everything with a pinch of salt. If you feel like you relate to the criticism and you kind of understand it, take it with a pinch of salt because a lot of times people are going to compliment you too, and you should take that with a pinch of salt as well. You know, with everything, kind of split it down the middle and go, &amp;#039;Okay, maybe I&amp;#039;m not as good at this as I am at something else, but hey, I can get better.&amp;#039; I think all criticism and all praise has to sort of be listened to with one ear closed.&amp;quot; Focus on the Future: &amp;quot;Ispent all my elementary school years being made fun of because of my name and because I was Russian. I definitely was very insecure when I was young, and the only thing that made me rise above it was that I knew I had a career and I had a dream. So no matter what the noise was around me, it was just white noise because my eyes were already past the people making fun of me and over their heads to the horizon to where I was going. All that talking is just fog because your eyes are set beyond their faces.&amp;quot; Want even more inspiration? Check out our Body Peace Blog for more relatable stories! What do you think of Milla&amp;#039;s advice? Share your own Body Peace breakthroughs in the comments! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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