Quotes About Self-image

I hate my stomach. It's impossible to get it flat, and the area around my belly button drives me crazy.

I don't always have the stomach muscles I have, and I get cellulite as well like everyone else.

I used to be a not-healthy 130 lb. girl, all in my stomach, all in my arms so I lost the weight and I stayed there then I became a control freak about the way I was eating and it just became the norm.

For me, when I have those moments of getting down on my body - let's say, for example, my stomach doesn't look my stomach before I had kids, just saying - that bums me out, so I really have to shift that negative into a positive and get really grateful for the fact that my body delivered me two amazing little girls.

For people who are very curious to know about what's wrong with my stomach, this is the natural stomach of a person, who has lost 15 kgs of weight, this is how it looks when it is not photoshopped or surgically corrected.

I don't have the flattest stomach in the world; I wear looser cuts so I can eat a bowl of pasta if I want to.

Just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn't mean I'm naughty.

When I graduated, I was my biggest ever: 15 stone, with a boyfriend - my first - of just 11 stone. I was 23 years old. It wasn't just affecting my career: it was a health issue as well.

I've never been a big person. I was about 14 stone when I was working, but when you go up to 18 stone then you know you've got issues.

When I'm not doing the show, and the work has stopped, I walk into a restaurant and I'm shy; yet, when I'm in the show, when people come up with their phones and want to take my picture, I can handle it because it's almost like I'm wearing an armour.

There's something really wrong with using Botox: it stops you making facial expressions - people are so interested in how they appear that there's no intention of projecting how they feel.

The last thing we need is yet another makeup company. Even I have a nervous breakdown when I go through the department store makeup floor.

I remember I was walking through a store, and I saw clothes a 25-year-old would wear. And the conversation in my head was, 'I'm not young and fabulous anymore.' But, immediately, there was a voice that said, 'No, you can be older and fabulous.' In other words, still just as fabulous, but in a different way.

I like dressing in designer clothes, and it's hard to buy them if you are overweight. And I got tired of, like, going in the stores, and then it was like I couldn't fit in anything. And overall, I wanted to be healthy.

I hated my big hair. I always wore it straight.

If I put on a few pounds, it goes straight to my butt.

I have very curly hair and I straighten it every day - it takes maybe two minutes. I can't imagine anyone having a bigger challenge than I do in the kinkiness that is my crazy 'fro.'

I had serious psoriasis as a child - it's strange that I make my living off my looks after years of looking like a monster.

Looking in the mirror is very strange; we see only what we choose to see, good or bad.

It's a strange thing to keep having this image of you at the age of seven, 12 or 14 as the one that everyone not only remembers you by, but wants to think in some way that you still are.

All that nipping and tucking doesn't make you look younger - only stranger.

I can assure you that it feels even stranger to me than it probably does to you to have seen so much written about me when I have done so little to paint a picture of myself.

When you get fat, you get a new personality. You can't help it. Complete strangers ascribe it to you.

Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing and solving our real problems.