Quotes About Acceptance

I was a weed. Such a skinny little weed. I just couldn't put on weight; I couldn't put on muscle. I was the oddest shape. And I thought that was it: that's how I'd look for the rest of my life. And I'd beat myself up about it so much. But you change an awful lot. You're 16. Your body's not even halfway to what it'll end up being.

When people talk about my weight, I'm like, 'You seem to have a problem with it; I don't.'

I've come to a point in my life where I'm not trying to be skinny, I'm just trying to be healthy, and I've found that if I don't really stress about it, the weight kind of just comes off.

Actually, I think it's interesting that when I put the weight on, I was already with him. I don't know, maybe I felt safe. And he likes me like this. He likes me whatever size I am.

I can't remember a time where I really battled with my body, but I can remember being asked to lose weight and battling with the advice. It hurt me. Especially as my baby fat naturally melted away as I got older.

I think that people's weight fluctuates. It happens. It happens to everybody.

Well, you know, I have always had an issue with the whole weight thing with people in general because I happen to love how big women look. I mean, it's all a perspective. It's all an opinion, and I think sort of the Rubenesque, voluptuous body is a lot sexier than the boney bag of bones with fake everything.

I only feel better because people aren't being so abusive to me about my weight.

I would love Giuliana small, medium, large or extra large and I will love her no matter how much weight she gained.

My weight fluctuates, like any normal girl, and I have times when I feel insecure.

I'm a healthy weight for my height, and I like how I look on most days.

I looked massive next to Ryan Seacrest! But I was lucky that I've never had anyone say, 'Jordin, you need to lose weight.'

I don't like how I have to always be judged for my weight - I hate that.

I've never disliked myself, and my weight has had nothing to do with my self-esteem.

If I'm slimmer, I feel better about myself, but I don't lose weight for anybody else or for a magazine.

No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it's tragic.

I'm learning a lot about the culture of weight loss. I didn't know there were bloggers out there who were proud to be fat.

I was very disturbed to find that a few people were angry at my weight loss.

I was very insecure with my body because of my weight loss from the first two seasons of 'Jersey Shore.'

Our weights fluctuate: Some people gain or lose, even friends who are average size. If I would say 'I'm fat,' my friends would say, 'Don't say that!' And I'd think, 'Are you offended, you can't handle the word? Or do you think I am embarrassed?'

I exist in agreement with all the weird chaos, destruction, and agony that is undoubtedly part of the texture of being alive.

Half of my life, I've had people staring at me because they think I'm funny-looking and ugly. The other half of my life, I've had people staring at me because they think I'm fascinating. Everything neutralises. It's more of a statement on society and how weird it is.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

Maybe your weird is my normal. Who's to say?