Quotes About Self-image

I had real big boobs, and I just got tired of knocking over stuff. Every time I eat, 'Oh, Lord'. I'd carry a Tide stick everywhere I go. My back was sore, so it was time to have a reduction.

I went through a period where I was really tired of seeing and reading about myself.

I was really tired of words like 'plus size,' 'round' and 'large.' I thought, 'Come on, we're fat.'

Diets are for those who are thick and tired of it.

People say to me, 'Do you know who you look like?' And I say, 'I'm really tired of looking like that guy.'

To be honest, sometimes I'm horrified because you don't really know what you look like. If I really knew what I was doing on-screen, I would try to stop doing it.

Because I don't really think of myself as a hunk, to be honest.

Especially with Instagram, I feel reluctant to make all the photos beautiful because I don't necessarily want to send this message that life is perfect and your avocado toast is always going to be beautifully lit. I want readers to feel like the Man Repeller page is real and kind of dirty. Messy.

We're not all Kim Kardashian. We can't have $15,000 from head to toe every single day.

I sometimes rock crazy shoes or a bright jacket, but my go-to is typically black, head to toe... minus my hair and makeup, of course!

Our culture values perfect pictures of ourselves, mirage, over and above authentic connection. But we meet one another through the imperfect particular of our bodies. Imperfection calls out for affinity—for the beloved to say, I too am broken, but may I join you?

Next to my green eyes, my blond hair is definitely my best feature. So, out of obligation to all the blondes before me (Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, the many Barbies I have loved and tortured), I tend to spend hours getting it right. You know, so as not to let down the team.

Because their discrepancies are much larger, people with hidden disorders are confusing to themselves and perplexing to other people. Because their range can be very wide, individuals can't easily encompass and incorporate both their strengths and their weaknesses into their self-image. This is especially true before they know the nature of this challenge.

She was what we used to call a suicide blond — dyed by her own hand.

There's a company called "True Mirror" that makes non reversing mirrors that show you how you actually appear to other people.

Like the man who looked for hours under a streetlight for the keys he had dropped in the alley because the light was better there, we waste so much time looking for what we want where it isn't to be found, consumed by "the underlying fear of… being torn away from our chosen image of what or who we are in this world." (Miller)

Every time I wake up, I see myself like somebody beat me up.

I think we live in a time where people are just insane on the subject of how they look.

I have thought for a long time that the way my clothes hang on me is more important than me inside them.

There was a period of time when I thought I had to be Alice Cooper all the time.

This is a photo as I would wish myself to look all the time. Then I would maybe have a chance to come to Hollywood.

I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.

it's perfectly possible to hate one's fat and to love one's body at the same time.

I don't really read the reviews, but I remember one a long time ago I read that said that I had a face like a potato.