Petra Collins Quotes

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.

By 12, my body had changed, although instead of blossoming into Cindy Mancini from 'Can't Buy Me Love,' I more closely resembled Chunk from 'The Goonies.' My inside world may have been filled with a poetic and vital feminine life force, but the outside world saw and told me otherwise.

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 think that everyone in one way or another has some sort of body issue. There's something about themselves physically that they're not happy with, that they're ashamed of, that they keep constantly trying to change.

At the end of the day, we all have issues with our bodies.

On a scale of one to 10, I'd rate my body confidence as a good seven. Everyone has their hang-ups, but I see my body as a training tool and I feel good about it.

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 definitely look at my body and I go: 'Yuck.'

We women are constantly at war with our bodies, it is hard to find amnesty for ourselves.

I have had a love-hate relationship with my body.

We all know what we don't like about our bodies.

Girls are so in their head about their body image. It doesn't matter how confident you are - it's hormones!

I've spent so much of life thinking of my body as my enemy.

I don't ever wanna blame my body for not being right.

I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.

If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.

I was a weed. Such a skinny little weed. I just couldn't put on weight; I couldn't put on muscle. I was the oddest shape. And I thought that was it: that's how I'd look for the rest of my life. And I'd beat myself up about it so much. But you change an awful lot. You're 16. Your body's not even halfway to what it'll end up being.

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.

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

For a woman, body image is always a palpable thing. Weirdly, for me, the only time I don't care is when I'm in character.

I really wasn't heavy in high school. But no one feels right in their own skin, particularly in high school.

I don't want to be size zero and I'm glad I'm not.

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

I don't have a big hang-up about my body.

The funny thing is, I don't actually think of myself as fat at all. I don't think I am. Not really.