Quotes About Self-image

A misperception about anorexia is that you don't eat. Not true. Maybe you eat just 500 calories a day. It would be easy for me to say, 'Why didn't my parents notice?' But I didn't want them to. I made sure to eat half a sandwich around my parents.

I see myself as 38, but you don't notice it.

I haven't had Botox because my face is a bit lopsided and I depend on keeping everything animated so that people don't notice.

I've noticed that a lot of people who criticize me are from the U.K. - both in the press and on social media. Since I've been here, I've gotten a lot of stares on the street, but in the States, people always come up to me and say, 'I love your hair' or 'I love your dress, you're so cute.' Here, people just look at me like I'm a crazy person.

If people want to think I'm an Indian prince, I don't want to dispel that notion.

The interesting thing about overeating or being obese is there's this physical manifestation of it.

I was morbidly obese. It was a way for me to create a shell around me so that nobody would look at me.

I have never really been obese.

You can look in the mirror and try to hide it and cover it up, and it may work here or there, but there ain't no shirt or hat you can put on or haircut you can get to hide the fact that you're morbidly obese.

I don't know why we have this shame about obesity, but it's kind of a good thing that we have this shame about obesity - we shouldn't accept the fact that everyone is obese.

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Quite often, I will do something and think, 'Oh, no, she looks a little too much like me.' I have tried to learn not to be afraid of that when that happens. I am not trying to obliterate myself and completely hide within the images like I used to.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

I know some people obsess about their appearance but I don't - it's not something that bothers me.

I am obsessed with my hairstyles.

I was really obsessed with dieting.

We are obsessed with image. I don't think we should take it that seriously.

Even when I was in my 20s and at my most beautiful, I was never obsessed with my looks. I didn't dye my hair or wear make-up.

One of the hardest things for me to do is watch myself. The first time I see it, I am obsessed with my left ear or my right ear or some other physical attribute, or the fact that I'm 60 or whatever shallow ego thought is running through my head. I'm just destroyed that I'm not Cary Grant or whatever.

I'm obsessed by Instagram.

Maybe this whole obsession about colouring our hair is about our inability to grow up. To let go of the fact we aren't children any more, and the whole thing about changing our faces and looking young, and 60 being the new 40, is maybe we don't want to let go of our childhood.

I modelled in my 20s, and it was an obsessive time. I was under pressure to look a certain way.

I was obsessive and made my parents take me to the hairdressers way more often than I needed to.

I am not a person that is particularly tethered to fashion, which I think is obvious to anyone who's seen me.