- Nov 07, 2020
Skinny Quotes
Candid takes on being naturally thin and how it shaped self-image.
This collection gathers honest reflections on being skinny, from genetics and eating habits to the social awkwardness it sometimes caused growing up. A few lines push back on outdated ideas about nutrition and body type. Continue with our Being collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't always overweight. I was a skinny little punk of a kid with severe asthma. When I got married at the age of 22, I wore a cut-down size eight wedding gown.
- Some
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to do a jean line for boys and girls that are sometimes too skinny to fit into jeans, or sometimes a little bit too husky to fit into some jeans.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't hate me, but I've always been skinny. I got lucky.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're skinny and you can't play hockey in Canada, you aren't left with a lot of options. I was left with running.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did play two years of high school football and was very short and uncoordinated but the second year I was very tall and skinny and very uncoordinated.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very skinny and very lanky and kind of awkward. In Puerto Rico, everybody is a little more voluptuous, with these beautiful bodies, and there I was, the skinny, lanky girl.
- Legs
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would always hunch over, I was always taller than the boys. I had the extremely skinny legs... I would double up my socks, those ones from Footlocker, to make my legs look thicker.
- Feet
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was 5' 10 when I was 14, skinny and flat, with huge feet, and I never had a boyfriend.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been pathologically skinny.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
You grow up skinny in Canada; in working-class Montreal, you're definitely the underdog.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Los Angeles there's, like, this awful image because the girls are so skinny. I don't think it's attractive whatsoever, and I also think that it gives a bad image to kids that are in their early teens. It's not healthy.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a skinny guy growing up, and I still feel like that same skinny kid.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you are a skinny, baby-faced teenager, the last thing you want to hear is that you're cute.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020