Quotes About Self-image

Ever since I dated a woman, I know what it is to grab a curve on a woman's body. Skinny's not fine when the lights are low.

The way woman is defined by marketable modeling and commercial standards... It makes me feel alien to myself.

I hate talking about my height, because I don't feel like a tall person... When I see a tall woman, I'm always slightly like, 'Whoa.' It looks weird, but that could be because of my complex about it, my worry over whether it's womanly to be that tall.

Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.

To her credit, Madam Walker discerned that black women wanted to conform to white Victorian models of beauty. She was aware of the double- sidedness of her products - helping black women appear more European in look, with straight hair - but she always maintained that she was simply selling products that promoted hair growth.

Women are always complaining about men's fascination with breasts. But what if men were absolutely indifferent to breasts? What would women do then with these things that serve one function once or twice in a lifetime, and the rest of the time are just in the way?

I come from a background where bigger women are appreciated. After all, you can't belly dance with a flat stomach, so my ideal body would be curvy, womanly and voluptuous.

You can't change somebody's character, but you can change the way a person presents themselves.

If you can't tell a spoon from a ladle, then you're fat!

Jerry Seinfeld has an interesting theory. He goes, '20 pounds up or down, and you lose your funny.'

Demagoguery sells. And therefore radio stations will put it on. But that doesn't mean that you can't do something else and also make it sell. You know, when I look at an Ann Coulter or I look at a Rush or I look at a Sean Hannity, I think to myself, 'What kind of self-image do you have?'

You're never as good as they say you are, you're never as bad as they say you are. That's a quote I live by.

I want to be Gary Barlow and peak when I'm 40. That's my plan - he's who I'm modeling myself on. Most people are completely beautiful when they're young, and then there's always a point when they get older where they say: 'Oh, what happened?!'

When I was 19, 20, 21, I wasn't extremely thick.

I have a big chin. Thick glasses.

Long ago, I had to sort of learn to have a thick skin to read some of the things you read in the papers and to also keep my ego in check when you read some really flattering things in the papers.

People say, 'You're still breast-feeding, that's so generous.' Generous, no! It gives me boobs and it takes my thighs away! It's sort of like natural liposuction. I'd carry on breast-feeding for the rest of my life if I could.

Many women find long, lean sexy legs hard to get. One reason is that before menopause, most of us store a disproportionate amount of fat in our lower bodies, particularly in our hips and thighs.

Everyone has areas they're not comfortable with, and mine are my bum, thighs, and legs.

My thighs were huge; they were like rock! Growing up, I was really athletic, and I had a very athletic body.

I'm proud of my thighs because they've gotten me to where I am today and give me the power that I have to play my best.

I didn't really have an identity crisis because I really, really knew who I always wanted to be But I definitely had a lot of problems with my body. I was very skinny, and I guess my body was sort of pre-pubescent, but when I grew hips and thighs, I just didn't know where I was in the world. It was weird.

For most of my life, I've put on weight in my thighs, not my belly. But in my mid-40s, things began to change.

Even after I had a baby, quite quickly I lost my tummy. But when I was pregnant, my redeeming feature disappeared overnight and I was left with an enormous bum and thighs.