Jeannette Walls Quotes

I never thought I was pretty enough. I was kind of tall and lanky. I don't mind it now, but back in the day I hated it. I would tell myself that what I think is ugly at 17 is actually what's going to be pretty about me later.

I was born tall. I was awkward and gangly. Before that, I was a really chubby elementary school kid. I've always been sort of a physical abnormality.

I was 5' 10 when I was 14, skinny and flat, with huge feet, and I never had a boyfriend.

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

I always thought I was sort of awkward and goofy-looking. I'm still kind of gangly.

In school, I was a beanpole with a nose I hadn't grown into.

I was very skinny and very lanky and kind of awkward. In Puerto Rico, everybody is a little more voluptuous, with these beautiful bodies, and there I was, the skinny, lanky girl.

Like all girls, when I was growing up, I always worried about this bit of me being too fat or that bit. But I look back at pictures of me when I was young, and I was thin and gorgeous.

I never really considered myself attractive. I was always kind of gangly in school.

If you are a skinny, baby-faced teenager, the last thing you want to hear is that you're cute.

No 11-year-old girl wants to be 5-10. I always felt big and unattractive.

When I look in the mirror I see the girl I was when I was growing up, with braces, crooked teeth, a baby face and a skinny body.

I gave up on my looks a long time ago.

I was a good-looking kid. I never felt, like, dorky. I was just like, 'Yup, these are my braces. I've had them forever.'

I'm 5 foot 7, and I've got pasty white skin. I don't think I'm ugly, don't get me wrong, but I'm not your classic lead man, Brad Pitt guy.

I always had long legs. When I was young, I used to think, 'Why do I look like a little pony?'

When I was a teenager, I was super-awkward. I don't think I really felt comfortable in my body or with how I looked, and people were nasty.

I'm 4 ft. 2 in. and not exactly a matinee idol.

All my family is average-sized, apart from me. I didn't really think about my size until I got older, a few years before high school. It had never really fazed me that much.

I'm too small and too short. I thought that was odd; that should be a non-issue to me.

Had more confidence than I probably should have in high school. But I do remember feeling like I wish I could physically mature a little faster, fill out. In college it started to happen a little bit more, and my confidence started to grow - then I got out to L.A., and that got squashed immediately.

I've never been particularly happy with what I see in the mirror - I don't think anybody ever is. And I'd like to be taller, too: I'm 5 ft. 9in.

I like the cut of my gib. I dislike the way I move.

When it comes to age, I just feel like puberty is, like, the most horrible time of anyone's life.

My first big disappointment is always, why don't I look like Julie Christie? Then I realise I don't look remotely like Julie Christie, and that's always a great sadness to me. Because I used to think I might have done, at one time. And I'm too fat. And I'm too old. You always see your faults, you see.