Nikki Reed is feeling 'good enough' in Hollywood

19 Oct 2016 |

The Twilight star raised her voice on defining success at a recent Creative & Cultivate event, which included the likes of Nicole Richie, Ayesha Curry and Sarah Michelle Gellar. Reed said: "The real question is what makes you feel good? Nobody in your position has ever been given a check for $5 million and suddenly they just feel good. You feel good from the start and those things are the icing on the cake or it just doesn't work," Nikki explained. "If you're chasing it the other way around, it will never work and that's why so many people in my business come out so f?ed up. They are chasing some sort of validation." Soon after, the Twilight star got even more candid about some of the criticism she has faced while trying to accomplish her goals and dreams. "You know how many times I've been told you're not good enough, you're not pretty enough, you're too fat?that one I really like?you're too skinny?that one's also kinda crazy," The amount of times I've been categorised by somebody else's standards of a person is so ridiculous and I would be completely destroyed if I defined myself by that." Reed's goals may not be as Hollywood as you think, sharing, "In the next five years, I'd like to be able to look at all of you and say I've gone back to school and I have something to show for it. I'm a lifelong student. I'm always enrolling in classes wherever I am. When I was shooting in Baton Rouge for a long time, months and months, I enrolled at LSU and I took psychology and I've taken classes at SMC, UCLA extension." She later joked, "It's probably me chasing my father's dreams or following my brothers footsteps or something that I should talk to a therapist about."

Create & Cultivate is described as a movement for women looking to create and cultivate the career of their dreams.