Lauren Alaina Quotes

I was called 'fat' 200 times on shoots and had serious trouble fitting in the clothes at fashion shows. All these things break you down to a point where you look in the mirror and don't like what you see.

I used to think I had nice arms, but I don't even think that anymore.

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?

I was bulimic and anorexic for a while, just hating my body. As an actress, I was never thin enough, never pretty enough. My boobs weren't big enough.

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

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!'

Spending way too long worrying about what people think about me is a bad habit.

I have days when I just feel I look like a dog.

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.

I don't think just being skinny means necessarily anorexic.

A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.

A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother.

I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.

The waist is a terrible thing to mind.

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

I'm just very self-conscious about the way I look. I really am embarrassed of it, because I wish I wasn't like that.

It's difficult, and it's an incredibly fine balance between getting your weight right down and being anorexic.

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 think the obsession with wanting to change yourself is crazy over the top.

I'd kill myself if I was as fat as Marilyn Monroe.

In this business, there is an insane amount of pressure, spoken and unspoken, to be thin. If you look at some of the television shows, eating disorders become like a competitive thing.

As young women, we all feel a pressure to look a certain way, and sometimes it is just too much to handle. But, there are good and bad ways to deal with this pressure. A terrible way to handle this pressure is to complain about all of our flaws and expect other girls to join in.

We are being accused that some models are anorexic. But we as fashion designers cannot be blamed, because you know, when I talk to women around the world, rich and poor and young and old and intellectual and not, what they want to be is skinny. You ask them, 'What is your dream?' It's to be skinny. That's all they want.

I'm never satisfied with the way I look.

Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.