body image quotes

The dieting wars have got to stop.

If I can get my dress on, my weight is under control.

My husband says I look like a Q-tip.

I still consider myself a little, fat kid from Hawaii.

I didn’t like the way I looked in pictures – when I saw myself on a digital camera, I was like, ‚Eesh.‘

I wasn’t a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.

I didn’t think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I’m not put together like the other chaps.

I think it’s good for a woman to put on a bit of weight when she gets older – it looks better. But a man has to stay balanced.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

In the beginning, I was very insecure. I hated how I looked in pictures.

My body is weird. I wake up when the sun comes up, and it’s hard for me to go to sleep. My thoughts just take over.

We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on. My wife looked at me and said: ‚Boy, you are skinny, aren’t you?‘ I said: ‚Honey, I’d like to remind you that it was minor defects like this that kept me from getting a better wife.‘

I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.

Over the holidays, and even during filming, I realized that I actually like my body, even if it’s not perfect according to the book. I just feel sexy. For the first time, I don’t want to get rid of the curves. I just want to tone it up. My body is comfortable, and it’s not unhealthy, so I’m going to rock with it.

I hate what I look like on TV, and I want to look better, and nothing makes the mothers more jealous.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

Men don’t really like skinny, do they?

I don’t see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I’m skinny, as if that’s supposed to make me happy.

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.

I want the world to see my body.

Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy.

I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.

I guess I don’t so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they’re pretty, even if they aren’t.

It’s only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I’m skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I’m big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

I’m ugly.

Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.