WATCH: Pink Steals The VMA’s With A Speech About Her Daughter

Pink won the Video Vanguard Award, and told a story about how her daughter Willow recently called herself, “the ugliest girl I know,” saying she looks like a boy with long hair. Pink took action, she made a Power Point presentation for Willow of androgynous rock stars like David Bowie, Michael Jackson, and Annie Lennox. Pink said she’s had her share of people making fun of her for being too masculine. Then she told Willow, “We don’t change. We take the gravel in the shell and make a pearl. And we help other people to change so they can see more kinds of beauty.” Willow was actually in the audience, with her dad.