Iskra Lawrence Quotes

Imagine if somebody said your nose is too big or your ears stick out. For me, it was my neck was too short. It stuck with me all my life.

All my life people have made fun of me because I was so skinny. They kind of made me feel bad about it sometimes. I worried that maybe people will think I am really anorexic.

I've not got a celebrity body.

When I was 16, I filmed an episode of 'Full House' where my family goes to Disney World. I remember putting on baggy overalls just to hide my stomach. When I watched it, I was pretty disappointed and bummed out looking at myself... I didn't feel good about my own body.

I'm not going to lie: I still have days when I walk by the mirror on my way to the shower and think, 'Oh God, I didn't just see that!'

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

I never thought that I'd be considered to have a good body. I was bony up top and kind of dumpy on the bottom.

I don't have a supermodel body. I'm always trying to hide something.

Growing up, I'd always been told that my biggest weakness was my body and how that was probably going to hold me back from accomplishing my dreams.

How I view my body hasn't been uncomplicated, but that was because my body was discussed and dissected at great length in a very public forum, when I was at a formative age.

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

If an adult is constantly criticizing how other people look, the girl will have a more critical voice about herself and others.

I have felt so insecure about my body at times. I've been on every end of the spectrum. I felt like I was too skinny and wished I could be muscular. I've felt like I was chubby and wanted to be skinny. I think everybody suffers from body image issues. I might exude confidence sometimes, but I'm pretty insecure.

I've always been the porky boy in my head.

Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.

I was a skinny guy growing up, and I still feel like that same skinny kid.

I've gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won't even wear shorts and a bra in my house because if I pass a mirror, that's the end of my day.

I'll never forget the day when a woman came up to me and said, 'No, you could never be on a magazine cover. Your face features don't work; your eyes are small, you have a small face but a big nose.' I was only 14 and I had never noticed any of that stuff, you know?

I was told my whole life, you're fat, you're ugly, you're never going to amount to be anything.

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.

All my life, men have told me I wasn't pretty enough - even the men I was dating. And I'd be like, 'Well, why are you with me, then?' It's always been men putting me down just like my dad. To this day when someone says I'm cute, I can't see it. I don't see it no matter what anybody says.

I don't think it's good to constantly talk about your own weight and the fact that you look fat in jeans.

I always doubted myself. I doubted the way I looked, my body, my voice - everything.

Most people are telling me I look horrible.

I don't like the sound of my voice or how I look or anything.