Alessandra Mussolini Quotes

I'll never forget the day when a woman came up to me and said, 'No, you could never be on a magazine cover. Your face features don't work; your eyes are small, you have a small face but a big nose.' I was only 14 and I had never noticed any of that stuff, you know?

If I were old, fat and ugly, I don't know if anybody would be interested in me.

I've been through my highs, I've been through my lows; I've been through the gamut of all things in this business. Being too thin. Being bigger. I've been criticized for being on both sides of the scale. It's noise I block out automatically. I love my body.

I was always told I was not pretty enough.

I kind of felt like maybe I didn't have what it took to look like a supermodel and wear high heels all the time and my nails.

There was a solid six-month period where I was going out on castings and I was laughed out of the room because I'm much more petite than other models.

Everyone always told me I had a J-Lo bum. Since I was 15 it's always been like that.

You know they're just looking for wrinkles and cellulite.

I don't have the body for this," I quipped, lifting my chin to a voluptous woman nearby who shook her hips zealously to the beat. "No curves." Jev's eyes held mine. "Are you asking my opinion?

I get insecure about a lot of things. In my line of work, unfortunately, your appearance is important, and I'm always like, 'Am I going to the gym enough this month? Have I been taking care of myself?' I get insecure about things from time to time.

I am insecure... because I have to think about what I look like every day.

I'm not that good looking.

The first entry into modeling doesn't build your confidence. They pull out the tape measure and pick you apart. I'm a curvy woman, so I was definitely told I was 'too curvy.'

I'm never satisfied with the way I look.

Whether it is your height, your weight or your skin, someone is going to pick on something and make fun of it. My legs were just a more obvious target.

The thing is that I never felt beautiful. I really never did. I think I can change my looks and be different things, but I've never thought of myself as this face.

And anyway, modeling wasn't for me. I'm too short. I've got a big butt. It wasn't going to happen.

I have a figure, and there aren't many girls out there right now who have that.

I'm not as beautiful as a model.

I've always felt if my nose were more crooked, critics would focus more on my acting.

Girls pour their insecurities into their looks.

I really don't think I ever thought I could be a model. I was shorter than all of the models around and certainly rounder than anybody that I had ever seen in a magazine.

Even my mother told me: 'You are a handsome woman, but you're not pretty. Pretty girls don't have those big bones.'

My legs are nice, my lips are shapely, and my breasts are pretty. They popped up when I was 11 and they weren't small then. I was teased, but now those kids wish they had what I have!

It took me a while to accept that I'm not going to have the curves other girls get.