It seems like being a celebrity would be fun. Sure, you get to eat at the best restaurants, shop at the finest stored, and meet with some of the most well known people in the world. What you don’t always think about is the difficulties of being a female celebrity. Men want you, and women hate you. Both for traits you may or may not actually have. On top of that, you are under enormous pressure to be gorgeous and young forever. Not the easy job you might initially think it is.

Goldie Hawn once said, “there are only three ages for women in Hollywood—Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.” Woman celebrities are under overwhelming pressure to be beautiful, sexy, and young forever. Once age creeps in, the parts become fewer and further between with each passing year. Just imagine if your job was like that. The day you turn 45, or the at the first sign of age in your face or gray in your hair, you suddenly find it harder to get work. Suddenly you aren’t “marketable” anymore, so you don’t even draw interest. That would be difficult, but imagine doing just that with millions of eyes on you almost every day.

Double standard or not, it’s true: when a man rises up on the pedestal of fame, he is admired. When tainted by sexual scandal, he is briefly reprimanded by the general public, but secretly still revered by men everywhere, and wanted by women all over. When a woman celebrity is lifted up, it is the sign that sniping season has arrived. Rumors of what is real and fake on her body, her sexual history and present, and every time she has ever been rude to anyone become tabloid fodder. Should she get caught up in any sort of sexual scandal, well then she is ripped and shredded.