Quotes from Emily Atack

In this industry, there's a massive pressure to be a certain weight.

I want it to resonate: there's no rule for how to live your life. You can do things your own way.

It's dangerous that we can all paint a completely false picture of ourselves.

From being on a panel show, they always need the blonde airhead sat in a corner they can make fun of, and I'm here to go, 'No, we're not the punchline.'

I've learned that I need to appreciate time by myself and that I don't need a partner to complete me.

I have so much self-acceptance.

Being happy is a beauty. It's not about having the perfect face or perfect make-up.

In the jungle, you learn about the other beauties in life. In everyday life, it's all about looking perfect, but in there, there's none of that.

It's weird because I do act like best friends, but still, I don't sit there and say my mum's my best friend. That doesn't really cover it.

I bet I would make a really good daughter-in-law.

I think as a blonde person with make-up on, you're automatically the punchline to the joke.

Growing up, my brother and sister were my best friends in the world - and still are.

I take each thing as it comes and appreciate everything that's in front of me now because people in this industry are so fixated on the next thing that they don't enjoy the moment. It passes you by, and all of a sudden, it's over.

I love Instagram and photography.

I've been in relationships and had long-term boyfriends since I was 13, so I've always had that emotional pillar of support. I'd got to a point where I felt like I couldn't live without that.

Everyone is comparing lives on social media and wants the perfect body, perfect image, perfect outfit, perfect life - we're striving for this perfection, and it's so unhealthy because there's no such thing as perfection.

I thought I was weak and couldn't be on my own. But actually, I can do it; I just need to be a bit braver.

I don't make any plans. When I finish one job, I make the most of some time off, then get back on it again.

I can survive in the jungle, so now I can do anything.

Fame can be a double-edged sword, and you have to take the bad with the good. The highs are incredibly high, and the lows can be incredibly low.

I find it so hard to lose weight: it takes me weeks and weeks of dieting and training just to lose three pounds.

I think we're all guilty of judging, and I look a certain way - I wear a lot of make-up and fake tan.

There's so many different kinds of beauty.

I'm not a tart. I feel like I've been treated like one in the past.