- Makeup
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- Nov 07, 2020
Body Image Quotes
Honest words on how we see our bodies.
These body image quotes trace struggles that often start young, shaped by family comments and unrealistic sizing, and look at how Confidence gets built or worn down over time.
- Last Updated on Aug 03, 2026
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've long struggled with my body image and have worked hard to achieve a healthy weight.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's so much emphasis on body image and results and outcome, but really what you should be after is to be healthy and to feel good about yourself.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, my body image struggle started very young. All that I heard from my mother, my aunts, and my mom's friends was, 'I gotta lose five pounds.' At 5 years old, I learned a size 2 is not thin enough. It was, 'Don't eat carbs! Don't eat sugar! Drink Diet Coke! You always diet!' So that was engrained in my brain at a very early age.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether straight, gay, bi, trans... body image and identity can be a struggle for us all.
- Clothes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Boys and boys' body image and clothes have become just as important an issue for boys as for girls.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Nimona' is about identity and if who you are is defined by what you look like. It's not a book about body image at all, but I would be lying if I said that wasn't in there even at the conception of it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even two of humanity's most intimate possessions - a sense of self and a body image - are fluid, highly modifiable creations of the brain's mischievous deployment of electricity and a handful of chemicals. They both can change or be changed on less than a second's notice.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we're on stage doing a song about positive body image or another about female empowerment, everyone out there is super into it and right there with us. It's been awesome. I feel like we fit right in.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a woman, body image is always a palpable thing. Weirdly, for me, the only time I don't care is when I'm in character.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
So much of what young people perceive about their body image is taken from watching their parents... I think we need to look at ways we can help parents pass on more positive messages to their children, and perhaps some of that can be done through health visitors, for example.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perfectionism is really a challenge for me, and it causes me to be super-critical of myself in so many ways: about body image constantly; about parenting; about being a mother.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a pressure to conform to particular images, and it feels a pretty exclusive pool of body image or facial image that is considered appealing. And in a way, that feels like pre-judging what an audience might actually want.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have felt so insecure about my body at times. I've been on every end of the spectrum. I felt like I was too skinny and wished I could be muscular. I've felt like I was chubby and wanted to be skinny. I think everybody suffers from body image issues. I might exude confidence sometimes, but I'm pretty insecure.
- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I obviously want to give a healthy body image to my own daughter. I think having good examples, eating properly, that's all one can do - and just be really loving around her. I've tried to give her confidence in who she is. I think she's all right in the confidence department.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020