Leandra Medine Quotes

As long as you're feeling good with your weight and the way you look, that's what matters.

Listen: I'm OK cute. I'm no stunner.

Anytime you look good, you feel good.

I'm not uncomfortable with my looks.

I know I'm fat and I know my hair is straight, but I can sing.

I love looking in the mirror and feeling good about what I see.

The older you get, the more you realize that the way you look is a reflection of how you treat yourself.

I can only speak for myself - I don't care how I look.

There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.

I feel very confident with the way I look. But I felt just as confident the way I looked before. I've always been confident with who I am.

As long as you smile, have sparkly eyes and stick your shoulders back, nobody's going to notice your bum or your waist or your feet, for that matter.

I used to think I was ugly. I thought I looked like a camel. A person who doesn't love themselves, they will see anything that pops up on their face. I've seen squirrels, I've seen a bird, and I've seen all kinds of animals on my face. But that is the result of self-hate. I've learned to say: 'You know what? I am a beautiful black woman'.

I don't think I have any bad features.

Some people say I'm not a very pretty woman, but I'm a very beautiful woman inside.

Modeling and pageants help me overcome feeling insecure about the way that I look and my height.

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.

Self-esteem should not be confused with self-confidence. Self-confidence is believing in your competence and your ability to do something, whereas self-esteem is believing in your goodness.

If you don't find yourself attractive, how do you expect your partner to?

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 don't see myself as a hunk of meat.

If you don't like the look of my face, don't look at me! I'm the one who has to live with it.

Lots of people who do bodybuilding want to walk around in tank top and shorts, because they want to show people what they've got - and there's nothing wrong with that. But I didn't want to do that because I didn't care what people thought.

I am who I am and I don't pretend not to be single or burned. And men might not fancy me because I'm too short or too thin.

My mom always told me, 'You're very smart; you're very funny.' She never told me, 'You're very beautiful.'

Mastery over the body - its impulses, its needs, its size - is paramount; to lose control is to risk beauty, and to risk beauty is to risk desirability, and to risk desirability is to risk entitlement to sexuality and love and self-esteem.