Quotes About Self-esteem

I had a very unhealthy relationship with food that turned into bulimia.

I don't want to fly the flag for being unhealthy and overweight, but I don't want to fly the flag for being too thin, either.

My instincts tell me that you will spiral into a very unhealthy place if you start pondering about how other people think about you and, quite frankly, I don't want to go there.

I was fat and ugly and never 'wanted to hook up - for a gay guy that's unheard of. I was like a monk or a priest.

I was the only mixed-race girl in my school, but for me, that was a positive thing; it made me unique. If it wasn't for spending time with the black side of my family, perhaps I may have felt like an outcast, but I never did.

Everyone has something unique to bring to this world. And if you understand that, if you cherish that, if you embrace who you are and then capture that with your clothes... then that is when fashion can make a powerful statement about who you are and what you are about.

I don't think that everything that's popular is necessarily right for every body and so I'd like for girls to be confident enough to make the right choice for themselves and to look unique.

Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.

If I did have a six-pack to show and a great waistline to put out there to the universe or beautiful muscular legs, then I would not have to pout. The only thing I have going for me is a jawline.

Everybody has an inferiority complex when they step into a room. But then when you have children and you get older, it doesn't really matter. When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't go to university. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't train.

When I'm called unkind... that really cuts to the quick. You can say anything else that you like about me.

When I joined films in 2002, there were all kinds of rash and unkind comments that were made about my looks in the reviews.

I buy unknown, lower-name brand jeans. I don't care about the name brands, if I look good in the jeans I don't care who made them.

Women should have choices, and women should feel good in what they wear.

My philosophy has always been to help women and men feel comfortable and confident through the clothes they wear.

Women are so unforgiving of themselves. We don't recognize our own beauty because we're too busy comparing ourselves to other people.

I think, when men tell women to lose weight, it's a diversion from their own lack of size in certain areas.

Plastic surgery is distressingly popular and I feel that the fashion industry has killed tens of thousands of women over the years from anorexia.

Making them feel gorgeous and comfortable is my way of making women's lives easier.

I gotta lose weight. I got stretch marks on my stomach and I never had a baby. So now when I take off my shirt in front of women, I tell them I was attacked by a mountain lion.

I think women's bodies are a battleground and photography is partly to blame. Our society is so photographic now, it becomes more difficult to see all of those different varieties of shape.

Men are often a lot less vindictive than women are, because we are rejected constantly every day.

That's how women are, always studyin' each other and wonderin' how they look up 'gainst the next.

Bullies often act out by marshaling aggression to cover up for insecurity.