Ari Graynor Quotes

I didn't really have an identity crisis because I really, really knew who I always wanted to be But I definitely had a lot of problems with my body. I was very skinny, and I guess my body was sort of pre-pubescent, but when I grew hips and thighs, I just didn't know where I was in the world. It was weird.

It felt as if my body was, like, literally betraying me because I went from a very athletic, straight-up-and-down little kid to a very curvaceous woman, and it was just horrifying to me.

When I was in middle school and even high school, I wasn't comfortable with my body. I look back, and it makes me sad, but I've grown into my body and really embrace it. I don't have the typical girl body; I'm kind of built like a boy.

I was so involved in my boy-rhythms that I never came to grips with the fact that I was a girl. I was twelve years old when my mother took me inside and said, "You can't be outside wrestling without a T-shirt on." It was a trauma.

I have often wondered what my life would have been like if I had needed a size thirty-eight bra instead of a modest thirty-four.

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 wanted people not to look at me as a little girl, but I was a little girl so how could I ask the world not to?

Whether straight, gay, bi, trans... body image and identity can be a struggle for us all.

I have no right to beauty. I had been condemned to masculine ugliness.

I'm pretty, but I'm not, like, a 'pretty girl.'

I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery.

For a long time after childhood ended and before I expressed my femininity through androgyny, I really didn't like looking in the mirror much because I just felt like I wasn't attractive.

I used to not have any confidence when it came to my body - I developed very late in terms of being a girl!

I definitely struggle with a disillusionment towards my body and my gender.

I want girls to know that its okay when they grow up and their bodychanges.

Women spend their lives trying to look good for men. So a woman who feels she's sending the right visual signals is pleased with herself.

Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.

I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.

I used to pray to God that I wouldn't get breasts. Then in my teens, I tried to be quite feminine.

I'm very uncomfortable about the way I look but confident as a man.

I don't have a problem being labeled a sex symbol, though I personally don't feel very sexy about myself.

I'm too tall to be a girl. I'm between a chick and a broad.

You watch yourself age and it's hard to feel like a sex symbol.

I don't know any women who don't think about what they look like, and I don't know any men who don't think about what women look like.

In school, I was a beanpole with a nose I hadn't grown into.