Quotes About Self-esteem

If you saw me without concealer, you would see that I have raccoon eyes. And I think my forehead is too small. I am not quintessentially beautiful. I am photogenic, but that's only because I have learned how to make the best of what I've got from the make-up artists I have worked with.

That's something I've dealt with my whole life, people making fun of me and my size. Everything from having a huge forehead to the size of my feet, and not being able to wear the same size shoes as my friends, definitely.

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.

From the bottom of my heart, I've always found compliments hard to take. It makes me feel awkward.

Confidence is a fragile thing.

Comedy writers have the most fragile egos.

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

Frankly, my head can never be bloated.

Everyone says I was real cute as a kid, but from 8 to 19, I was horrible-looking, freaky.

There's criticism, and there's calling someone a fridge.

I was called fried eggs and all that at school. Size does matter.

I think people are addicted to looking good in front of other people.

I know when I was a kid I saw only one color of beauty, I saw only one kind in all the billboards and all magazines and the video clips. One kind and it was so frustrating.

Self-esteem is something I still battle. People look at me and say, 'You've got fame. You've got admiration. You've done this; you've done that.' As far as I'm concerned, I haven't done anything. I've just fulfilled a dream of competing.

It's fun being beautiful. It's awesome.

All women are princesses , it is our right.

How does thee like thyself?

Poor little thin, sallow, ugly Mary—she actually looked almost pretty for a moment.

It's not your fault that you are stupid.

am one of the ugliest children I ever saw. She is beginning

Quit it already. I'm pretty enough as it is.

Everybody at Sweet Valley High, even Elizabeth, seemed to forget that there was ever a fat and ugly Robin. But Robin would never forget.

She used to write all the time,' Elizabeth explained, 'before she lost all that weight. Remember? When she was the butt of everyone's jokes instead of the girl all the boys want to date?

don't make the mistake of selling yourself short. There'll be people enough out there who will do that for you at some point. If you're not willing to champion yourself, you're ten paces back from the very start!