Nadine Coyle Quotes

If I walk outside without lipstick, I feel naked.

I've taken my knickers off. My friends told me my panty line was visible, so I went without.

I feel weird when I go to the movies and everybody's faces are perfect.

As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot.

I really never thought about the way I looked until boys came into the picture. Then it starts to be like, 'Am I wearing the right outfit? I have to do my makeup for school!'

I don't go out without make up. I'm a woman, you know.

I'm not some weirdo who wants to take off his shirt.

In high school, everyone told me I had a great personality and sense of humor, but I wanted to be the girl who boys liked because she was pretty on top of being funny. I was boy crazy.

It's not like I cleaned up with girls. I always looked young and I was very small; I hated being 'cute.'

Yes, and I had pimples so badly it used to make me so shy. I used not to look at myself. I'd hide my face in the dark, I wouldn't want to look in the mirror and my father teased me and I just hated it and I cried everyday.

I had just started ninth grade when I got my acne. And I had braces. I wouldn't look people in the eye. It was not a good time for me - it just killed my self-esteem. I thought when I didn't look at someone, they couldn't see my face.

I like talking. I didn't know at the time I would have to worry so much about my hair.

I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.

You get stared at the whole time. I first noticed that when I was about 13. I was very shy. Being considered beautiful, I always felt that people were waiting for something more. I imagined you were supposed to have an intellectual ability - and I'm making no claims here - proportional to your supposed good looks.

I know people will think it's funny because I've done glamour modelling in the past, but I felt embarrassed about my body and just wanted to cover it up.

Originally they wanted it to be bigger, but I pleaded and pleaded and pleaded to have the smallest tonsure that they could get away with. A tonsure that could still be seen, but, I worried about my social life!

I hate being too pretty.

I was always in the popular crowd, but I really had atrocious teeth. I was encouraged to 'do well in school, 'cause no one's going to marry you!'

All of my friends are really good dancers, which was initially why I never danced - we'd go out, and they would kill it, and I'd be like, 'Yeah, I'm just gonna sit at the bar.'

I think wearing less makeup can seem a bit scary for some women because we get so used to seeing ourselves look a certain way.

I get kinda self-conscious. I don't want to know about my eyebrows. I'm born with them.

I don't like to look at myself in the mirror, which is why my eye makeup is always crooked.

I am self-conscious, and I'm aware of my body. But I struggle with America's limited idea of what perfection is.

I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny.

When you're younger, you worry about so many things that you don't need to worry about, like image, appearance.