Padma Lakshmi Quotes

You learn to be comfortable with your body. It's fine and not a big deal.

You know, I'm a curvy woman and I just want to be comfortable with that.

One of the most radical things women can do is to love their body.

I had a totally normal relationship with my body.

I don't have shame with my body. I don't find a breast more vulnerable than an elbow.

If you want to change your body, that's well within your means to do that, but if you don't want to change your body, you need to accept it and embrace it.

It doesn't matter: any weight, shape or form or however your body is, you want to be proud of it.

What the body-positive movement wants is to stop categorizing people, and to let people of all body types be able to do anything, whether they're slightly bigger than the average model or a lot bigger.

I come from a place where we're not that shy about our bodies.

Everyone has the right to their lives and to look the way they want to! Tomorrow I can put on 25 kilos... it's my choice, my body!

I don't want to use the term 'plus-size,' because, to me, what the hell is that? It just doesn't have a positive connotation to it. I tend to not use it.

I think in today's world we've discovered what works, silhouette-wise. A body's a body.

There is no ideal body. It's just taking what you have and working it.

Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with.

Really, I don't care if people think I'm too skinny. This is my body. If they don't like it, screw it.

I'm cool with my body, I love my body. I wouldn't trade it for no other body.

We all body shame and compare bodies, and that needs to go out of the window.

No one's body is up for comment. No matter how small, how curvy, how round, how flat. If you love you, then I love you.

Being married to Andy has given me a new appreciation for my body. He's taught me that it's not how thin you are that matters. It's how your body performs, how it endures wear and tear.

I do not understand why we are not raised to celebrate our bodies as children. Why we are told to be shy or awkward or self-conscious.

I just have to be very clear. Whether or not I lose weight or stay the same, it's purely a choice of mine for health. Not because I think that plus size, curvy, voluptuous, big bodies aren't attractive - because I think they're awesome and sexy.

This is who I am. I am never going to be a size zero.

I haven't always been the best advocate for my own body. I was a too-tall, pudgy child who felt completely out of control of the genetic lottery ticket she'd been given, so in retaliation, I shut down. I ignored my body and hated it for not being tiny and cute like my friends' bodies.

Sometimes people feel really trapped by the body that they have. Women are told, 'You have this body shape; you're a pear or string bean, and you can't change the way you look.' That's just not true.

Bodies are beautiful and should be appreciated.