Quotes About Acceptance

I was bulimic and anorexic for a while, just hating my body. As an actress, I was never thin enough, never pretty enough. My boobs weren't big enough.

I'm healthy, but I'm not thin.

I was too old, too young, too fat, too thin, too tall, too short, too blond, too dark - but at some point, they're going to need the other. So I'd get really good at being the other.

Size doesn't equate to beauty. I don't understand why that's a thing. Well, I do, because the media has told us thin is beautiful. But is it?

Pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It's like, 'She's pretty and thin and she's got to have problems. She's messed up.'

Some are short, others are tall, others are thin, others are stocky. But we are all human beings. Can we not live together and happily within one border?

At school, I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking.

As a kid who grew up chubby, I just marveled at the fact that I could be thin.

My mother was a stout woman with a man's name - Billie. She was plain-faced with honest eyes - no black grease by the lash line, no blue powder on the lids, eyebrows not plucked up high and thin.

You're damned if you're too thin and you're damned if you're too heavy. According to the press I've been both. Its impossible to satisfy everyone and I suggest we stop trying.

I just want to send the best message possible to women. And I'm just so thankful because I honestly never thought I could model. I've always been told I wasn't tall enough, I wasn't thin enough.

A lot of women think being thin is the way to go, but I prefer to have some meat on my bones.

You're not ethnic enough. You're not fat enough. You're not thin enough. You're not blond enough. You're not dark enough. You're not young enough. You're not old enough.

I am who I am and I don't pretend not to be single or burned. And men might not fancy me because I'm too short or too thin.

When you're not blond and thin, you come up with a personality real quick.

There's a lot more to life than how fat or thin you are.

Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table.

I've just got crap hair. Although I inherited a lot of stuff from my dad, including giant knees, I didn't get his good, thick hair. I got my mother's thin, wispy, non-event hair instead.

You're either too fat or too thin. You just can't win.

People expect me to be thin and perfect... I'm not.

I do think moms should be given a break, all across the board. And I think that the most important thing is that you're healthy. After I had my little girl, I wanted to be healthy for her and have a healthy body image so that she hopefully grows up to see that her self worth isn't defined by how thin she is.

There are exciting, intelligent, fat people - and exciting, intelligent, thin people.

Any people whose lives are about the way they look, whether it's fat or thin, are in a dangerous area.

I know the pain of somebody who's too thin and the pain of somebody that people say is too big.