Quotes About Self-acceptance

For me, I am a really tall woman, and I am really tall in heels, and I feel bigger, and I like being bigger. I think I was a king in a past life.

I used to be unusually short, and I think I'd prefer that to being unusually tall.

Growing up, I was quite self-conscious about getting too tall, but then I realized, 'You know what? I can use it to my advantage. Big is beautiful.'

I wasn't blessed with those tall genes.

I'm not tall.

When I was younger, I wanted to be tall and skinny. And because I wasn't, I was disappointed. The great thing about getting older is that I've come to accept my shape - and embrace it.

I have always been tall. When I was five, I towered above all the boys in my class, so it is something I have grown up with.

I could be 7ft tall and I'd still love longer legs.

Sometimes women who are taller aren't comfortable with it, but I love being tall.

I'm a whopping 5 foot 4 inches tall. I'm not going to get any taller.

I tell girls, 'If you're tall and feel too tall, the answer is to be taller.'

It used to be that I wanted to be taller. Once I made 5-foot-1, I was happy.

I wish I was taller or curvier, but I'm happy with the way I look.

I have always been short, and most people want to be taller. That's sort of a thing, but I love being short.

I felt like I was the odd one out growing up in the province because I was half-Filipino and half-German, so I wasn't full-blooded Filipina and, of course, I was the tallest in my class and I felt kind of awkward.

I'm not the tallest or the thinnest - and I think being in shows is a major part of when I stopped second-guessing myself.

I never have had blonde hair. I have never had straight hair. I never wear pink clothes or spray tan and I never wore heels to school.

Aesthetically, I don't really like the blond, tan thing. I am pale. So I may as well embrace the pale. Long, blond hair and a bad spray tan is the stuff of my nightmares.

I really love Penelope Cruz, because she has the tan skin. I think it's important to look at people who resemble you and see what looks good on them, and how they are doing their makeup or hair and how they carry themselves.

We were so fed up with how we had to be the stereotypical girl who looks perfect in the music video: she's coming out of the water in a bikini with her long tan legs. Not all of us are that girl.

When I was up for the film 'Dreamcatcher,' to play the role of an overweight kid, I was told I'm too fat to play the fat guy. That's like telling a Mexican to get a tan.

I'm nothing if not a tangled, colorful ball of contradictions.

Lots of people who do bodybuilding want to walk around in tank top and shorts, because they want to show people what they've got - and there's nothing wrong with that. But I didn't want to do that because I didn't care what people thought.

Growing up, I've been shamed a lot. Being a curvy girl, being young and seeing the skinny girls wear short shorts because it's cause it's hot outside, but I want to put on shorts and it's provocative, or I want to put on a tank top and it's provocative.