Tom Daley | Beauty of Pride

You know, whether you're painting your face,

whether you're painting your nails,

whether you're painting a canvas,

being able to express yourself is important.

Go away, beauty standards, create your own,

like I'm trying to create my own whatever this is here now.

Using your platform, whether that's in social media

or just being generally visible is important

because there are so many people within the LGBT community

that aren't as lucky as some people in terms of being able

to feel comfortable with being themselves and being out.

So I think sometimes leading as an example

and being able to just show people

that you can be comfortable with who you are

and do all the things that you believe in

and do all of the things that you've always dreamed of,

being who you are isn't gonna hold you back.

So I think it's always important

to kind of share those elements.

You know, there's some things when you look back on

like early social media days.

You know, oh my gosh, that's a little bit cringe.

But at the same time, I documented so much of my life

through YouTube and lots of things

that I now have that forever.

And I'm really kind of glad that I vlogged

so much of my diving competitions 'cause I can go back

and see all of those competitions

and really kind of relive it whenever I want to.

And I think that's something

that's quite special about social media.

I really don't think I've done anything too crazy,

although, you know, I like to paint my nails,

but that's not really that radical.

I like doing silver chrome,

or having like black with chrome on the top.

I feel like it's kind of quite chic to do that.

Makeup and beauty in general is important

to the queer community for so many reasons.

I feel like it allows you

to express yourself in any way you want.

And I think that can be anything from, you know,

whether you're painting your face,

whether you're painting your nails,

whether you're painting a canvas,

being able to express yourself is important.

With diving, like if you don't allow yourself

to take the risks, to make mistakes,

then you're gonna get stuck in a rut

and you're not gonna be able to keep moving forward

and learning new things.

So allowing yourself to be kind

when you do make those mistakes

and allow yourself to learn from them

and not beat yourself up too much is important.

In terms of beauty standards,

I always think that there shouldn't necessarily be standards

because everybody's idea of beauty is different.

I struggled for a long time with being able

to feel comfortable in my own skin.

Whether that was with who I was,

growing up gay, whether that is being an athlete,

there's so many elements.

You are always trying to chase what you think you want,

when actually, sometimes just taking a moment

to be grateful for what you have is important too.

Go away, beauty standards, create your own.

Like I'm trying to create my own

whatever this is here now.

But we're working on it, we're getting there.

Well, for me, as an athlete,

I'd say someone like a Greg Louganis.

He had to deal with his diving career as a closeted athlete

because, you know, it was definitely not accepted

to be a a gay athlete in the '80s.

Now that he's come out, he's been a big mentor of mine.

I think we're done.

So here we have me

diving into a yarn ball world fantasy.

Diving with balls of yarn all around,

with the water

and me doing a pike dive.

I feel like my kneecaps are a little bit too high.

Wait, if I was doing that, where are my...?

Oh, I don't know, my kneecaps might be there. Yeah.