Quotes About Self-esteem

When I was, like, 5 years old, I used to pray to have light skin because I would always hear how pretty that little light skin girl was, or I would hear I was pretty to be dark skin. It wasn't until I was 13 that I really learned to appreciate my skin color and know that I was beautiful.

Men don't really like skinny, do they?

I don't get fat, I get skinny.

People made fun of my skinny legs.

Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.

I've been told to be skinny before - it's already happened, but it's up to you to either listen or say no. I'm not listening.

I was never anorexic, so I was never that skinny. I was never bony-bony. But I remember thinking, I don't want to be this skinny.

A lot of people think that being skinny is the happy ending, and it's not. Being happy is the happy ending.

I've realized skinny isn't necessarily attractive. Guys like girls with curves.

I was always such a skinny kid, so I kind of grew up with an 'I hate skinny' mentality.

Shaming happens every day online, it happens all the time. I can be skinny shamed and fat shamed in the same day.

I was training for the N.Y.C. Marathon and was really lean and people would tell me I looked too skinny and sick and that I should go eat a cheeseburger... Those words hurt, I'm not going to lie.

I am really skinny even though I eat like a beast.

I used to be very shy. When I first started, I had to go to a casting, and I had to go in a bikini. I thought I was too skinny. But I went in and got the job! And that's how I started.

It's important to be fit, but you shouldn't get too skinny. You need to have curves.

I used to have acne when I was a kid growing up. You can imagine how serious that was in making you feel bad. And I had skinny bow legs. I mean, as a kid growing up, I was an insecure fella.

Really skinny actresses make me hungry - I see them and think, Honey, you need to eat!

It's better to be skinny than to be fat.

I was muscular - I was never overweight. But tell a girl that she has to lose 15 pounds when she's not fat, and that has destroyed a lot of who I am over the years, even still. In my mind I'm thinking, 'I'm always too heavy. I should be a skinny thing.'

Who would have thought that the girl who was forced to go to the hospital because she's so skinny would one day be called too fat?

I certainly used to wish that I was skinny, lighter-skinned, with long, pretty hair. But only because I used to get made fun of for being the absolute opposite. I didn't see all of that stuff as the American Dream. I just wanted to look normal. Now that I'm older, I really do feel like I am a beautiful girl.

It was hard to get guys to notice me, period, because I was so skinny and all my friends were curvy. Plus, I used to be very nervous in front of guys.

I see girls who are so skinny on the catwalks, and I know so many of them destroy their lives and their family's lives.

The funny thing is I'm actually really insecure. I have a lot of girl issues - 'I'm not pretty enough,' 'I'm not skinny enough' - but there is a confidence I have in what I can do. I did tend to overcompensate to cover up other insecurities that I have.