Halima Aden Quotes

I'm not one of those women who thinks beauty is a curse.

I certainly used to wish that I was skinny, lighter-skinned, with long, pretty hair. But only because I used to get made fun of for being the absolute opposite. I didn't see all of that stuff as the American Dream. I just wanted to look normal. Now that I'm older, I really do feel like I am a beautiful girl.

I'm not an eye-candy kind of girl.

I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, 'Well you're never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don't even try.' I mean, I care about being pretty, but it's not my most valued thing.

I'm not a supermodel. I make the best of what I've got.

I contend that every woman has the right to feel beautiful, no matter how scrambled her features, or how indifferent her features.

My body is my best asset.

As long as you feel confident, you're going to look beautiful. You don't need to be a stick figure to be beautiful.

What I believe in and the way I work with my clients is we're so quick to say what we don't like about our bodies, but it's really important to say the things we do like about our bodies. If you know you have great legs or a great butt, or if you're curvy, show it off if you're proud of it.

Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our 'beauty' so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.

I don't agree with body shaming.

I don't need to be 19 years old or starve myself for some weight or turn men's heads down that road. And thank God I finally know that.

I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.

Sexuality, desirability has nothing to do with body type. It has to do with how you feel from within. I was at my fattest best in 'The Dirty Picture,' and I was called the most desirable. So there you go. I am quite well-endowed, so I have no complaints.

Our bodies are exploited so much in the media, I feel like everyone is made to feel like they're not worthy or beautiful.

I'm learning to embrace who I am and what I look like.

When you're a big girl like me, you want someone who makes you feel diminutive. I think fat guys are sexy.

I don't have a model's body. But I'm not one of those crazy girls who thinks that they're fat. I'm okay with what I have. I can rock this body, you know?

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.

I am an unconventional beauty. I grew up in a high school where if you didn't have a nose job and money and if you weren't thin, you weren't cool, popular, beautiful. I was always told that I wasn't pretty enough to be on television.

A woman has no need to be perfect or even beautiful to wear my dresses. The dress will do all that for her.

I love my beauty. It's not my fault.

As long as you smile, have sparkly eyes and stick your shoulders back, nobody's going to notice your bum or your waist or your feet, for that matter.

There are certainly a billion, ker-trillion girls out there more attractive than I am.

It's important to feel beautiful; it's political to feel beautiful.