Quotes About Body positivity

I didn't think of my size as an advantage or as something that I could use to be dominant. I didn't carry myself in the ring with the confidence that I should have.

Any body type is beautiful. It's all about loving what you got and rocking it.

Once I realized, when I became a plus-size model, that there were more women like me, my confidence immediately shot through the roof.

I want to bring love handles and eating sandwiches back.

It wasn't until I owned my body and really learned to love it - all of it - that my career just went to a level that I couldn't have expected.

As a woman of color and curve model, I never imagined when I started modeling that I would be featured in the pages of 'Sports Illustrated.'

You will never catch me in a dress without a pair of Spanx and a bra.

Why wear pants when you can wear a muumuu?

I think that no woman has to defend her body, and she should just live her truth. It should never be about the number size of her pants, and it should be about what you're doing in the world. What does her brain look like and not her hip size.

I parade in next to no clothes every day. It's hard not to compare yourself to other people, but I think everyone is different, and that is something we should be celebrating.

One of the best parts of a woman's body is that curve, and I go a little bit higher on all of my things to show off the best part of the hourglass.

I love all parts of my body! But on a man, I love the Adonis line. It's just so sexy!

I've been told I'd make a great parts model.

At the age of one, I was already heavier than most: doctors told my mum that she should start feeding me differently to the advice given by the health visitor. Yet I ate healthily, nothing was processed, and I was active and happy. But for whatever reason, I was on the bigger side.

I feel it's very important to remove labels; the progress in fashion will be when people completely cut out the words 'plus size' from their vocabulary and accept that women come in many sizes - especially over a size 4. Once that happens, I feel as though inclusiveness of body type will finally start happening.

Curvy models are becoming more and more vocal about the isolating nature of the term 'plus-size.' We are calling ourselves what we want to be called - women, with shapes that are our own.

I'm a curvy, ethnic girl and I'm shooting with 'Vogue.' I want people to see and feel like, 'If Jordyn can do it, I can do it too.'

I just have to be very clear. Whether or not I lose weight or stay the same, it's purely a choice of mine for health. Not because I think that plus size, curvy, voluptuous, big bodies aren't attractive - because I think they're awesome and sexy.

When I modeled, my name always came with a preface: 'the voluptuous Sophie Dahl.' I was the anti-waif, as round as a Rubens.

I should be allowed to be voluptuous or scrawny of my own volition, without people going on about it.

My first shoot was on a rooftop in swimsuits with two plus-size models who were curvy and voluptuous and beautiful, and they taught me so much about being beautiful in any shape or size.

I'm comfortable with being a voluptuous woman because I'm not going to be a size two and that's ok with me.

I've never had a body issue; I've never had a self-confidence issue, and there's been very few times in my life where I've felt down about the way I look or the way I feel.

I like when a man has a positive self-image, no matter what he looks like. I'm not into rock-hard abs.