Jennifer Ellison Quotes

People think I have an interesting walk. Hell, I'm just trying to hold my gut in.

It's funny, one of the reasons why I never wear my glasses any more is that, when I was younger, a guy once said that he liked me until he found out that I wear glasses.

I felt embarrassed about how my body looked being so pale.

Yes, and I had pimples so badly it used to make me so shy. I used not to look at myself. I'd hide my face in the dark, I wouldn't want to look in the mirror and my father teased me and I just hated it and I cried everyday.

I don't even like to be naked in front of myself!

I was always insecure about the way I looked.

In falling over in heels while trying to look attractive, you don't just hurt your body, you bear the humiliation of injuring your very soul. Physical pain? Whatever, bring it on. But the humiliation? Oh, you have seen to the very weakest part of me.

My husband recently made me try on a bikini. A bikini is not so much a garment as a cloth-based reminder that your parts have been migrating all these years. My waist, I realized that day in the dressing room, has completely disappeared beneath my rib cage, which now rests directly on my hips. I'm exhibiting continental drift in reverse.

I was naturally skinny and had braces, so I wasn't a cute model.

The funny thing is, I look at these magazines that make me so insecure and neurotic, but I'm in them!

Before I was a mother, if I'd been photographed in a bikini, I'd have been mortified.

Most people care what people think about them... we all do.

I was incredibly self-conscious about the way I looked.

I have to say that I am embarrassed about how emotional I am.

The pressure to look good is intense. It is hard to be immune to that and the self-consciousness that comes with it.

I never let anyone know I was insecure about it - it was my own little thing - but I did have a problem being overweight. I always felt people were looking at me in a certain way as opposed to who I really was.

I remember times putting on my shirt and having to tuck my stomach in because I didn't like the way it looked.

Sexy? Me? I'm too shy.

There are times even I am a bit embarrassed by my look.

Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.

I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.

I always think I look like the Elephant Man - I can't get used to my own image.

There was a kind of physical anarchy that dominated most of my younger life. I was always too skinny, not hairy enough, my voice jumped around. It was a thing that drove me away from towel lines in gym class.

You get stared at the whole time. I first noticed that when I was about 13. I was very shy. Being considered beautiful, I always felt that people were waiting for something more. I imagined you were supposed to have an intellectual ability - and I'm making no claims here - proportional to your supposed good looks.

Since I was a little child, my nose - I think it's too big.