Shannon Purser Quotes

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 thought, well, you might see curves there, but that's just a bone - so even if I lose weight that's not going to change anything. That's how I look. That's my shape. Do the math.

I get 'voluptuous' a lot, or 'shapely,' but the fact is that as you get older you learn to embrace your body type. I wasn't able to do that until I was at least 23.

It took me a while to accept that I'm not going to have the curves other girls get.

I've been every size in the world. Parts of my twenties, I was in great shape, but I didn't appreciate it. 'If I was a 6 or an 8,' I thought, 'Why aren't I a 2 or a 4?'

I'm not going to have beautiful curves or Kim Kardashian's body. I just have to accept that.

I think that a lot of women experience that balance between feeling insecure about and appreciative for their bodies. I definitely have.

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

I don't think what size I am really matters.

There's people who don't want to see bodies like mine or bodies like their own bodies.

I don't have a Kate Moss body, but I'm very proud and happy with mine.

I love my body. I'm very much OK with it. I don't think artists are ever the ones who have the problem with their weight, it is other people.

I've never been a size zero, let me say that here and now. I've never been that sort of person.

I was always bigger than the other girls. My sisters are very, very beautiful and very skinny, and I've always had a more muscular body. So I grew up with a different mentality.

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.

It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.

I want to be a big, fleshy voluptuous woman with curves. I want a big bum, but I don't have one.

There isn't anybody that looks like me without clothes on.

I love curvy women. Maybe because I'm not. I would love to be a Marilyn Monroe, but I'm very far away from that... So I love very curvy girls.

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

I'm not slim. I'm a curvy girl: I've got thighs and a bum. I don't mind baring the fact that I've got a bit of cellulite because everybody has. I find it off-putting when everybody on telly is the same size or looks the same build. For me, it's important for people to watch someone normal.

I'm the curvy one of the family.

I have never understood the clamour for waif-like women whose flesh acts merely as a thin veil for their bones - much as I would love to be thinner, I would hate to take it so far that I had no actual shape at all.

I've never been a waif; I have a womanly figure and always did.

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