Amanda Seales Quotes

I love 'HUMBLE' because he spoke on women with stretch marks and that's what I live and stand for is body positivity.

I think that each woman, whatever age, needs to recognize something good in her body. Someone has beautiful legs, someone has beautiful hair, someone else has beautiful decolletage or a beautiful waist or beautiful hands. Everyone has something great.

It's easy to be critical of ourselves and other women around us. We stand in front of the mirror and only focus on the things we hate about our body and our appearance. But I encourage you to change that attitude the next time you are in front of the mirror.

I don't have all answers, but as far as viewing my body... I'm in a place where I can look at my stretch marks and say, 'Oh, hey, stretch marks!' and I'm over it.

I don't have a model's body. But I'm not one of those crazy girls who thinks that they're fat. I'm okay with what I have. I can rock this body, you know?

I guess my mom raised me right. She was very celebratory of her body. I never heard her once say, 'I feel fat.'

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.

Curvy is something to be proud of.

I feel empowered the fact that I can look the way that I do on stage and in photos - I can look that way any time I want. And I feel like it's important message to other women that they can do it, too.

Eve wasn't a size 6 and neither am I.

I've been through my highs, I've been through my lows; I've been through the gamut of all things in this business. Being too thin. Being bigger. I've been criticized for being on both sides of the scale. It's noise I block out automatically. I love my body.

We women are way too hard on ourselves. I don't know who some women are dressing for, but we should be celebrating our bodies.

Women should be happy with their bodies. Not being afraid of yourself is very empowering.

I just think about little me - what it would have meant to me to see a chubby girl in movies and a big girl get the guy and be the princess, be the hero. I think that would've really changed a lot for me.

I look in the mirror, and I'm a plus-size girl, but I got it going on.

It's hard for every girl to accept their body. This is something that I try to work on every day to set a good example.

I just want to send the best message possible to women. And I'm just so thankful because I honestly never thought I could model. I've always been told I wasn't tall enough, I wasn't thin enough.

Once I realized, when I became a plus-size model, that there were more women like me, my confidence immediately shot through the roof.

Bodybuilding helped me to realize that I don't have to look like the girls in the magazines and that it's OK to feel good about my curves.

I get mad at my girlfriends when they say things about their neck or something, "My neck is a disaster," and I'm like, "Come on, you don't even believe that." You're taking that from the outside world, you know? You look amazing, you're beautiful, you're 40, you're in the prime of your life. I'm not interested in fighting it at all. I don't think anyone else is wrong for trying to fight it, however.

It's wrong for women to be constantly shy and embarrassed about their bodies. There are so many images of unattainable beauty that are so destructive. It's important to show how your body really is. As the cliche has it, beauty comes from within.

You can be fat and still be sexy . It all depends on how you feel about yourself

Every woman hates her own body. I don't know a woman who doesn't . . . well, I do know a few who love themselves but in the case of most women it's like, "ugh." And when I dress a woman, my design intention is to give them an attitude or a grace, no matter whether it's a wedding gown or ready-to-wear.

As women, we need to embrace our bodies and be confident with who we are.