Quotes About Self-image

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

You really can't quantify what 'Dietland' is.

Contrary to the image of a neurotic man created in some quarters, I feel very much at peace with myself.

I was always very body-conscious. Especially when I was transitioning, taking hormones and things. I noticed that I would gain weight quicker. So I would exercise and diet, so everything was how I'd like to look.

I thought my body was going to change so quickly with pregnancy that I'd freak out. But it was really gradual.

When I was younger and I was getting older, I remember thinking that if I couldn't do it gracefully, then I would have to quit. You know, looking at yourself aging onscreen, it can bring up stuff. It's one thing to be aging in a job where your looks don't matter, but as an actress, it's so much part of your image.

I wasn't strong enough to have an eating disorder. I tried to go anorexic for a good three hours. I ate ice and celery, but that's not even anorexic. And I quit. I was like, 'Ma, can you make me a sandwich? Like, immediately.'

I fully accepted that I cannot grow facial hair, but it is quite emasculating.

Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.

I definitely think social media does cause this desire to be perfect. It can make kids feel like they've got quite a lot of the weight on their shoulders in terms of how they're supposed to be and what they're supposed to like and how they're supposed to act.

It's very important to me that I look good when I go out publicly. I like looking at my clothes rack in the morning and deciding what to pick out. I enjoy fashion.

I think one of the reasons why I've done all right in TV is because I'm not a raging beauty. I like the way I look, I think I've just got a nice face.

I feel like, in my 20s, I was putting my hair in a ponytail and pinching my cheeks and raising my voice an octave. So I feel more comfortable being a woman than I did being a young ingenue.

People call me fussy, but that's a fallacy.

I hate my hair! When clean, it is fuzzy, and when not clean, it is lank.

I've always tried very hard to gain weight since I was very young.

Part of being young is you think gaining 6 lbs. is the end of the world.

I am so broad and big-structured that even two kilos on me can look like gaining 10 kilos, and losing two kilos can also look like shedding 10 kilos.

I used to live in a gap jumper, tracksuit bottoms and a fake flower in my hair. Shocking.

On my record cover, you can barely see my face. I still think I look really geeky.

I have gender dysphoria and body dysmorphia. I don't like to see pictures of myself.

By the age of 18, I was very fat. My dad would say there's a Spall fat gene. But I was fat because I ate loads. I used to go and buy six or seven chocolate bars and eat my way through them.

Some women are forced by men to look a certain way to be accepted by the general public, and I find that terrible.

It's not really in my genes to be walking around looking like a body builder.