Quotes About Self-image

I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that.

I think I'm a model in a football player body sometimes.

I felt pressure to follow in Madonna's footsteps, and I didn't want to base my career on sex. So I began to change how I saw myself.

My brother always teases me about my forehead: 'I could eat off it!'

My forehead is sometimes too high, but bangs could correct this.

Perhaps we've got so involved in the false selves we project on social media that we've forgotten that our real selves, our private selves, are different, are worth saving.

I call myself a FFP: former fat person, and when you're an FFP, you will always see in yourself what people used to bully you for.

Fortunately, it doesn't seem to have made a lot of difference to my audience that I'm as bald as a billiard ball!

How I view my body hasn't been uncomplicated, but that was because my body was discussed and dissected at great length in a very public forum, when I was at a formative age.

I had the '80s hair and braces and a 6-3 frame as a 16-year-old.

All of us struggle to live up to the image that's drawn for us. Perfect body, perfect skin, perfect house - we are put in a frame with a picture that 'others' decide for us. If we work to live up to just that, when will we do what we like?

I'm OK with my appearance. I have made my peace with it after a long and frankly exhausting battle.

The way we like to think of ourselves is not the way we look. We like to think of ourselves as more evolved than we frequently are.

I used to think I had to stay frozen in time. No amount of Botox will keep up.

When I go back to my old films, I feel frustrated looking at my eye makeup and hairdos.

I wear false eyelashes at work so I get used to that fuller look all the time, so when I get home, I'm like 'ugh, it's not the same.'

Yet I've discovered that how I look is not a function of anything as ephemeral as my hair.

After you have kids, you feel differently about your body. Aesthetically, am I happy with my body? No. I definitely think you come to view it as more functional. But you just get past it.

I'm growing fatter, said Mary

Earlier that spring, in an Amazon discussion of the comments women get for being fat or losing weight, Lindsay observed that "Nobody who gets thin gets rid of their problems, they just trade them in." The only part she got wrong is that we trade in a few problems (like airplane seats), keep the oldest ones (why we got fat, how being fat has shaped our psyches), and receive a handful of new ones in return.

I will not eat cakes or cookies or food. I will be thin, thin, pure. I will be pure and empty. Weight dropping off. Ninety-nine... ninety-five... ninety-two... ninety. Just one more to eighty-nine. Where does it go? Where in the universe does it go?

when she first realized that Robin had a pretty face. Now, as the weight fell away, that face was becoming more than just pretty.

Good thing you lost those two pounds, Jess," she told herself. "Dan wouldn't want to put his arms around a blimpo.

A MAN'S ALTER EGO is nothing more than his favorite image of himself.