Katherine Jenkins Quotes

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

It's important to accept your body for what God gave you.

I like having curves.

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

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 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 definitely have curves. I don't intend on losing them.

If you want someone who's big-boned and you like that, ain't nothing wrong with having a little extra meat on there. If you like them thin-boned, then that's okay, too.

I'm not ashamed of what I am and that I have curves and that I'm thick. I like my body.

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 come from a family of tall, curvy women. I developed in my body and my shape far earlier, so from a young age I accepted it. I embraced it and saw it as an advantage.

My curves are not crazy.

While I believe that when you are in the glamour industry, you have to look your best, I also believe being skinny is not 'hot and happening.'

I'd much rather be known as some curvy Kate than as some skinny stick.

Oh, I had, 'No one will ever fancy me!' I had that well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. I don't mind the way I'm ageing. No reason to panic just yet. I think I look my age, and that's fine.

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

I love being in my own skin, and I hope other women start feeling better about themselves and waste less energy being ashamed of their bodies.

From 12-year-old girls to 70-year-old matriarchs, I know hundreds of women who have some sort of body image issue. This is sad and seriously worrying, but it's true, and it's why I feel some kind of social responsibility to do what I can to show a variety of body types in fashion magazines.

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.

In Brazil, no matter your shape, you're comfortable walking around in a bikini. You feel good in your body. We know you're never going to be perfect. If you get caught up in worrying about this and that, you're going to spend all your life working on these little spots.

I don't have a typical body type, and that used to be something that made me feel very alone and weird.

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.

There's nothing antifeminist about showing a lovely body; it's part of the person you are.

When I was younger, I wanted to be tall and skinny. And because I wasn't, I was disappointed. The great thing about getting older is that I've come to accept my shape - and embrace it.

There are more important things in life than being thin, anyway men prefer women with a bit of meat.