Quotes About Self-image

I feel very confident with the way I look. But I felt just as confident the way I looked before. I've always been confident with who I am.

When I am tanned and in shape I feel confident about my appearance.

I think male actors get confused by their own vanity.

Seeing my mother struggle with her weight confused me: I looked at her and thought she was beautiful, she was my mom. And this woman, who I looked up to everyday, couldn't see her own beauty?

I don't look like Susan Boyle!

Back in 2006, when I started in the industry, there was a very old-school beauty mentality. We had to take headshots, and the makeup artists put on so much makeup - I swear I looked like a 48-year-old woman, and I was 22.

I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.

I really focus on my jeans and sweaters for them to fit really well. There was a time that wasn't the case.

I literally get dressed for Instagram to take pictures. I have sweats on every other hour of the day.

I hate getting my photograph taken; just because I'm a musician doesn't mean I should have to sell my soul and have pictures of myself on stage with a red face and sweaty armpits plastered over 'Heat!' every week. I'm not a model.

We're all diminished and restricted by sweeping statements defining boy and girl, our expectations and disappointments with ourselves, the way we look, what we enjoy, and the choices we make.

Being pregnant has all kinds of advantages. People keep telling you how beautiful you look. They do it over and over. Very sweet of them, but it is just not true. I've seen myself before, and I've definitely looked better.

I think people perceive me completely differently than how I perceive myself. I see myself as a sweet, cosy, motherly type. We all want people to be more glamorous and daring and adventurous than they actually are.

We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in order to present ourselves to one another.

When I get really bloated my belly can swell up to the point where I literally look two months pregnant.

Because I was a swimmer, I felt like sports did help me to realize that my body was more than what it just looked like... and if didn't eat, then I couldn't swim fast.

Being pregnant finally helped me understand what my true relationship was with my body - meaning that it wasn't put on this earth to look good in a swimsuit.

I've always been that person who's struggled to find a swimsuit that I love.

It took me six years to be comfortable modeling a swimsuit.

When I finally discovered the 'Sports Illustrated' swimsuit issue, I browsed through archives and saw a picture of an incredibly stunning model, Damaris Lewis. Her images inspired me, and I imagined being in the magazine myself. Never in a million years did I dream it would actually happen.

My weight can swing by four stone.

I'm the girl next door, not the sex symbol.

You have to be born a sex symbol. You don't become one. If you're born with it, you'll have it even when you're 100 years old.

I don't think I'll ever be comfortable being considered a sex symbol, especially after you work with someone like George Clooney.