Quotes About Insecurity

When I was in S Club Juniors, I didn't know if someone thought I was ugly or fat or didn't like my hair.

I had years of therapy to recover from this. A lot of it had to with being a people pleaser, being the ultimate good girl. I wanted everyone to like me. I didn't really have a voice. I was afraid of growing up.

Ultimately, there are only two emotions: love and fear. And pretty much anything else you want to name can be broken down into one of those.

I was not a very popular kid in high school, and I had this idea that the way that I dressed would change how liked I was. It was that kind of Pygmalion story. I think, ultimately that's probably why I became interested in fashion, its transformative power, and how it can change your identity.

Growing up I definitely, definitely had a bunch of things of, 'Um, am I black enough?' - and I guess specifically, 'Am I German enough?' Why are we measuring blackness?

Being on the run, having to change the way that you do business, being unable to plan in a safe and secure environment, always looking over your shoulder, knowing that some day somebody's going to knock on your door and it's going to be your last.

I do still get extremely nervous before speeches. My biggest fear is that I'll be standing there in front of hundreds of people and be incapable of talking. I'm afraid that I'll make a complete fool of myself and be unable to go on.

As a child I was painfully embarrassed by everything, always blushing and unable to make eye contact.

Body image - what we're supposed to look like - is made so unattainable that all girls are put in this position of feeling inferior. That's a horrible thing.

I grew up feeling unattractive, and it took a long time to grow into a place where I was comfortable with me.

If you've grown up feeling unattractive, I don't think you ever lose that. It never goes.

Unattractive people are more obsessed with looks.

It is difficult to imagine any time in history when so many people claiming to be so free have lived in so much fear of being unattractive.

At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.

No 11-year-old girl wants to be 5-10. I always felt big and unattractive.

When I was tiny, I was a real observer of human behaviour, and I knew I wanted to tell the human story, but I felt shy and unattractive and awkward.

If I was 10st, I would look highly unattractive - it would be damaging to my body.

I was very worried about being unattractive because I think I look quite masculine. Sometimes I feel more masculine than feminine and I don't like it.

Jealousy is unavoidable - it's part of the price we pay for intimacy.

Being a 13-year-old girl who is constantly picked on is unbearable.

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

I felt so unbelievably ugly for years.

It took me a long time to even dare to envision myself as a writer. I was very uncertain and hesitant and afraid to pursue a creative life.

I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'