Adwoa Aboah Quotes

I think if you don't like being in your skin, it doesn't matter how many times people say you're beautiful, how many jobs you get, or whatever it is - I just didn't want to be Adwoa.

Oh, I'm not beautiful. I can look beautiful; I can put beauty on. When I'm tired, I look bloody awful. I think I'm turning into the actress from 'Dynasty,' Linda Evans.

I don't believe in doing things to manufacture my body to appeal to what I think people might like.

I'm happy with the way I look but I'm not Hollywood beautiful.

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.

You're never going to look perfect to yourself even if you might look perfect to somebody else.

I have a friend who, if she has a bad hair day, it affects her whole mood because it is part of her sexuality, her confidence. I don't have that problem any more.

I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, 'Well you're never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don't even try.' I mean, I care about being pretty, but it's not my most valued thing.

You should take some responsibility for the way you present yourself. But you should not be hung up on your looks, whether you are ugly or handsome, because it isn't an achievement.

Beauty was never really my trip. Maybe those roles are attracted to me?

It is difficult to imagine any time in history when so many people claiming to be so free have lived in so much fear of being unattractive.

It's funny, but I never knew I was hot or could be beautiful until I saw 'Basic Instinct,' and I was so shocked when I saw how pretty they made me.

I didn't want to be looked at. I remember when I was six or seven asking my mom why people were looking at me. She said, 'They're looking at you because you're a beautiful little girl.' But I didn't believe her. And yet I put myself in a business where people have to look at you. I think I learnt to block it out.

The pressure to look good is intense. It is hard to be immune to that and the self-consciousness that comes with it.

I always felt second best. I was never the prettiest, never the skinniest, never the fastest in my sports. Never the smartest, because I have dyslexia. Then, all of a sudden, people were like, 'You're gorgeous.' And I was like, 'What?'

I used to do fake tanning because I was told that I didn't look great.

I hate the pressure of having to look good all the time.

I think all girls do struggle with image, despite not knowing what's going on with other people.

How much of fashion is fueled by insecurity - for better or worse?

People have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm.

I cancel going out if my hair doesn't look good.

Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.

Looking good has never been the most important thing to me. Maybe it's because I'm more conventionally, um, acceptable, so it's not an issue for me. I don't know.

I think a lot of young girls go through that period in their life of finding who they are, and at that point, looking good matters the most.

As a kid I had buck teeth and braces and acne. I hated what I saw. I'm still not comfortable, but that's why I change and adapt the way I look.