Stephanie Klein Quotes

The thing is that I never felt beautiful. I really never did. I think I can change my looks and be different things, but I've never thought of myself as this face.

I'm not too secure about my looks. They can always change. I was heavy and overweight as a teenager, so it's hard to be cocky or egotistical.

I'm never satisfied with the way I look.

I liked myself better when I wasn't me.

I was raised to treat my body as a temple, but even as a little girl, I had a major issue with self-esteem. I thought there was something wrong with the temple.

I didn't think my face was beautiful. I guess I found a lot wrong with it.

I can't look at the mirror beyond two minutes. I don't know what to look at. What is the point of looking at yourself? You can't change your face.

I felt like the sample size was right, and my body was wrong. I basically ended up going into battle with my body, and that's a daily battle every time you look in the mirror. Every time you see an image of a successful model or someone who you look up to who doesn't look like you, you think you're not good enough.

I think if you don't like being in your skin, it doesn't matter how many times people say you're beautiful, how many jobs you get, or whatever it is - I just didn't want to be Adwoa.

I know, when I was younger, I would look in the mirror every single day and hate what I saw.

As a kid I had buck teeth and braces and acne. I hated what I saw. I'm still not comfortable, but that's why I change and adapt the way I look.

I just don't like my face.

I am not too keen on my nose, I don't like my knees, I hate my ankles, I am unsure about my behind, I don't like my legs at all. I am not too sure about my chin, my forehead is a bit dodgy. But, overall, I can live with it.

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.

I was never my favourite subject.

I don't like my physique. Who does?

I'm not a beautiful person and I never have been.

I really do believe that my style is informed by the fact that I had such issues with my appearance at various times of my life.

Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.

I thought I was so ugly for so long, and I wasted so much of my life on this dumb notion.

Even, today, when people tell me I'm beautiful, I do not believe a word of it.

All through my twenties, I spent more time worrying what I didn't have than thinking about what I did have. I wished that I was taller, had longer legs, slimmer hips, a smaller bottom, even straighter hair.

I'm ugly.

A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.

I hate being skinny and being a little weakling thing.