Quotes About Body

It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.

I remember seeing the performance Samantha Morton did in 'Sweet and Low Down' where she didn't speak at all, and I loved it so much because she got to do so much work just by expressing herself in her body and her face. With expressions, it wasn't necessary to speak. I find that appealing.

One of my earliest memories is Mum telling me not to have as many sweets as the other kids because I put on weight so easily.

When I was overweight, my back hurt, and my ankles would swell up. It wasn't the weight itself but the problems it brought along that bothered me.

When I get really bloated my belly can swell up to the point where I literally look two months pregnant.

I love to swim in the nude and roam around the house in the nude. You're just as free as a bird!

More people than not have seen me on television in swim shorts, so I don't have any problem stripping down.

We have this one body we've been given, so whether you run, kayak, swim, bike, on some basic level, we need to take care of our bodies.

Coming from a barely clothed childhood as a swimmer makes me really comfortable with my body.

Because I was a swimmer, I felt like sports did help me to realize that my body was more than what it just looked like... and if didn't eat, then I couldn't swim fast.

I'm a great swimmer, probably due to the size of my feet.

Being pregnant finally helped me understand what my true relationship was with my body - meaning that it wasn't put on this earth to look good in a swimsuit.

I've always been that person who's struggled to find a swimsuit that I love.

Even buying a swimsuit is super difficult. And then making one is even harder.

I live in a swimsuit so I'm really comfortable with my body.

To look good in a swimsuit one needs to know what suits one's particular shape.

My weight can swing by four stone.

While I'm very into fitness, I'm much more used to swinging kettlebells around than my actual body.

It was very hard for me to come back to a place of feeling normal about food and about my body. And then, when I came to the other side of it, it felt like something was gone. An exorcism. I still experience the same chemical swings and moods and pain, but I'm much better at dealing with it than I was at 18.

Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.

My own pregnancies were all about me, me, me. My aches, my pains, my swollen feet, and my body that looked like the Michelin Man.

I'm not a sex symbol. How could I be with these skinny bowlegs?

I think the leotard for me became, after I retired, a sort of a symbol of the confines of still fitting into the ballet world in mind and body.

You can be a sex symbol through music or film. Hey, there are some politicians that are sex symbols. Is that something you should fight? No. Sex is very natural.