Ashley Graham Quotes

Sometimes it's a struggle to keep up with my own photos, where the lighting is perfect, the makeup is done, and the images have been retouched. That's not what I see when I look in the mirror!

I have been a big guy all my life, I am not going to lose a bunch of weight, because then you're like that weird fat person that got skinny but still has a big head. I don't want to do that. So I'm just trying.

I was always handsome under all the fat.

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.

I'm not too secure about my looks. They can always change. I was heavy and overweight as a teenager, so it's hard to be cocky or egotistical.

When I found out I had to take off my shirt in 'Teen' movie, I panicked and hit the gym. I was like, 'It's going to be on film, documented, for my children to see. I can't be 140 pounds. I need to put on a little bit of muscle.'

Media images are so important to young people feeling positive about themselves.

After I lost weight, I discovered that people found me valuable. Worthy of conversation. A person one could look at. A person one could compliment. A person one could admire. A person.

Any images that I've had retouched, I look at them, and I think, 'Oh I actually don't want that.' That's why I don't share them on Instagram.

Psychologically, when you've been overweight, you want to achieve the polar opposite.

I would hope that young girls could relate to me and see that the lives of people on the internet are not as perfect as they seem.

People will take a picture of themselves and start looking at themselves and decide their neck looks weird. They see a celebrity selfie and wonder how she looks so good, and why her lips look so big.

I hate when people say I Photoshop myself.

If you only share your best pictures, or your Facetuned self, the thought of people seeing you as you truly are can be scary.

I worry I look posh and fat. I can't do anything about posh - I'm accentless - but I've spent 20 years battling my weight.

Everyone is taking selfies. Everyone's actually getting that - looking at themselves and they filter. Now if they do a little filtering, it's OK because they want to look like a better version of themself. Overdoing it though can be a little bit more of that dysmorphic issue where it's not a good thing.

What you look like doesn't matter as much as what you feel like. If you feel you look good, you look good. And I never felt that.

I have to look at myself in the mirror and tell myself that I'm beautiful, even if I don't necessarily believe it.

I really just want to change the way women think about themselves.

You can feel very strongly that someone doesn't like you. I think any model who didn't have the same sort of upbringing as me would find that very difficult. But I absolutely knew I was entitled. I never thought I was ugly - it never crossed my mind.

I don't hate what I see when I look in the mirror. Even if legions of others don't agree. I have accepted the reflection that reliably bounces back at me for its perks and its flaws.

I don't look like Susan Boyle!

What I'm trying to achieve with my surgery is my own personal satisfaction. It's narcissism.

I avoid social media and articles with negative comments about myself, because the first few times that I got called 'fat' broke my heart; it absolutely destroyed me. It's awful when someone says something like that to you.

I don't see myself as a hunk of meat.