Quotes About Self-acceptance

I'm a late bloomer, so I'm going to embrace it all.

Somebody told me once I wasn't Latin enough, and that made me laugh.

I do know that when I started, there weren't very many Latina plus-size models. For a long time, with my look and my body type, I felt like there wasn't a place for me.

You have to laugh at yourself because if you can't, you may as well give up!

I don't talk to myself or anything, but sometimes I say things and I laugh at myself. Sometimes you have to make fun of yourself.

The 4-year-old me was getting laughed in school at for being too dark.

I was happy being a lawyer, and the thought of becoming a model or even actor never came to my mind, even though I knew I looked good.

When I first started out, there were times I would dress or act in a way because I thought it was expected of me or that people would take me more seriously. But once I started leading in a way that was authentically me, that is when I really started to see success.

I don't know if any woman is completely happy with the way she leads her life or with the way people treat her.

I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.

You've got to take the hems down, especially past 50. I don't care how good your legs are.

I love my legs.

I always thought 'plus-size' wasn't a term that was negative - it wasn't something that I felt was something that was making me any different or making me feel like I was lesser than - and I found a community through it.

I'm happy to be called a liberal.

Drag is more like a license to be what you want. But you don't need drag to do that.

All I needed was the courage to be me. That courage took a lifetime to develop.

I will not have my face lifted.

I don't want to be liked by everyone.

I can only see my limitations. That's just who I am.

And I kind of said to myself if I get my voice back I'm not going to take back the old anxiety about it and just focus on the limitations. I'm really going to enjoy it.

I want to have a fit, healthy body and not have to be put in a box. I don't want to be limited by anything.

I don't want my fans to think they have to get lip fillers or look like me in any way.

I love how full my lips are.

I've had these lips all my life, and I love them.