Gus Kenworthy Quotes

I had had my own trials and tribulations with body image. I had gone through a lot starting from my teenage years.

I suffer from an amazing amount of insecurities, and I'm grateful that my body image, it's normally not something I pay attention to.

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

I want to be a voice for that: just because I've lost weight doesn't mean that I'm happy and content with my body. Because of the media, and because of what I feel I should look like, it's always going to be a battle in my head.

When a lot of people wake up in the morning and put on their underwear, the first thing they feel that day is terrible about themselves. When you see that your body is not what other people want, it can be really devastating. I have so many friends that I grew up with who have had serious eating disorders.

I used to refer to myself as a 'theoretical anorexic,' just as crazy when it came to body image, but saved by a lack of self-discipline. My daughters do everything better than I do - they're smarter, more beautiful, happier. What if they end up better at anorexia, too?

If I can help and influence girls who are going through body-image issues then I think that's amazing.

Even though I'm in the industry and I act and all this stuff, I still suffer from self-esteem issues... from the way that I look or the way that I talk... just nitpicking at myself.

When I wrote 'The Good Body,' I turned 40 and suddenly had this stomach. It seemed like the end of the world. Because I didn't value my body. I was constantly judging it, but I also didn't live in it.

Every day of my life, I feel fat. It's not correct thinking in the natural, normal human being's way of life.

It's incredibly difficult to keep a healthy body image in this business.

And whatever my weight, I've always been skinny from the waist up.

I don't really know why I'm not thinner than I am.

I feel like most actresses kind of have issues in body dysmorphia.

I'm comfortable with my body but I don't like my bum - I think it's too big.

The truth is, I'm not body confident.

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

There isn't a woman alive who doesn't have problems with her body. Including me!

I identify as a feminist. I have so many feminist beliefs - and then I'm so mean to myself about my body sometimes.

You'll probably find most models are incredibly insecure about their bodies.

I don't like the way my arms jiggle.

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.

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

I've not got a celebrity body.

I have heard every negative thing under the sun about my body.