Lindsay Mendez Quotes

I was told my whole life, you're fat, you're ugly, you're never going to amount to be anything.

Horrible experiences lead us to wonder whether the person who experiences them might not be something horrible.

There are many different types of bullying, being called fat and all that stuff, it bothers you. You have to deal with it.

Because I have been bullied and attacked about my body, body image has always been an issue for me.

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.

It can be hard for the cute girl. I was blond, cute, broke. I was beat up. I was thrown inside lockers. I was burned with cigarettes. My hair was lit on fire.

I was called fat and ugly in the press almost my entire life. I understand that being judged by others comes with the territory, but it broke my heart and ruined my self-esteem.

I suffer the terrible disease of low self-esteem.

My feelings about myself have been terrible.

I've learnt the power of words. I've had the worst thrown at me.

I've been called pizza face and others said my skin was full of craters - it's just so horrible when people pin point something that you feel so badly about.

Being singled out as 'The Ugly One' led to depression.

I've felt ugly and insecure.

I was called 'fat' 200 times on shoots and had serious trouble fitting in the clothes at fashion shows. All these things break you down to a point where you look in the mirror and don't like what you see.

People called me 'cottage cheese thighs' all through school.

We can experience an erosion of self-esteem when we're lonely, as we come to believe that it's because we're not likable or because something is broken inside of us. And that can just compound that loneliness further and further.

I was the overweight kid who didn't have a boyfriend. I listened to other people say, 'You're ugly, you're fat, you're stupid,' and I believed it.

Right from school, I got mockery for the way I look. I took it to heart early on. I admit there were times when I doubted myself.

When I was younger I got bullied about the way I looked and I thought once I was older it would stop. I hated going to school, but didn't know who to talk to about it. It knocked my confidence a lot.

From this haunting feeling of being not wanted, which remained a recurrent haunt through life, I found two ways of escape, both of which in changing form also persisted. One was the invention of gods, the other was personal efficiency in work.

Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.

I was badly bullied when I was in the seventh grade - relentlessly, mercilessly - by a group of 12-year-old girls. And it left me with a determination that no matter what, I had to throw my shoulders back, stick out my chin, and project a sense that no one and nothing could hurt me. That turned out to be a life-changing mistake.

I'm still the fat kid from high school who never had a date.

There's tremendous shame with being bullied. I think there's a level at which you think that there's a reason that you're being singled out, that you're being chosen.

When I was labeled stupid, that scarred me forever.