Quotes About Self-image

From the time I was about 7 until I was about 13 or 14, I looked like I was Pat from 'Saturday Night Live.' I'm not exaggerating, remotely.

My first big disappointment is always, why don't I look like Julie Christie? Then I realise I don't look remotely like Julie Christie, and that's always a great sadness to me. Because I used to think I might have done, at one time. And I'm too fat. And I'm too old. You always see your faults, you see.

Cultures render their icons in their own image. Which comes down to vanity, in some sense.

In the beginning, it's why I stopped correcting my appearance - because the articles were mean and would repeat the image that my ex-husband tried to paint of me.

What is the obsession with not repeating clothes or making appearances that have been similar to the one's we've made in the past? Why is the fashion police so intense? What do they expect from us? What kind of pressure is this?

This is an exact replica of my chest.

If I can represent that body type of women that isn't represented so much in media, then I'd be happy to do that.

I want the things that I create to outshine the person that I am perceived to be, which I think is often not accurate and not really representative of who I am.

I really don't want to be a hunk.

I don't see myself as a hunk of meat.

I'd like to grow up and be beautiful. I know it doesn't matter, but it doesn't hurt.

If someone calls you fat and you are fat, then it will be hurtful only if you feel you should not be fat.

I've had Botox. It hurts a lot, but I like it.

My husband says I look like a Q-tip.

I've always felt like there was a lot of hype around me even when there wasn't. I felt like everyone was talking about me even when no one was talking about me.

There is a danger in believing your own hype.

I don't feel like an icon; I don't think of myself as an icon.

I've always had bigger legs and butt; it's just the way I'm built. Over time, I realized that they were blessings because that foundation - my legs and butt - is what helps me flip 12 feet above an icy halfpipe.

I had no fake ID and looked 14 until my first grey hairs came in a couple of years ago.

It's hard if you start believing that you should be really that perfect fantasy ideal, that people start believing because of all of the retouching. You can delve into that fantasy world and play with it, but when you walk away, that's not you.

I identify as a feminist. I have so many feminist beliefs - and then I'm so mean to myself about my body sometimes.

Plus-size is a term that's never been used in hate; no one has ever used it in a negative way. The industry has always used it to help us identify where to shop.

You can't control how you come across and if you try to then you come across looking like an idiot anyway.

For a long time, I dressed like an idiot. In college, I had a fully shaved head with just two horns. Like, a coxcomb of hair that I would sculpt into two horns. I looked like a crazy person.