Stephanie Klein Quotes

I'm a woman, and every woman wants to be skinnier - unfortunately.

Sometimes I wish I were just magically a size 6 and I never had to give it a single thought.

A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.

I'm like every other girl; there are things I wish I could change about my body, but I try not to think about them too much.

And you still have to sqeeze into your jeans, but you're perfect to me.

I've talked to so many people, men and women alike, that get overweight and their self-esteem just goes in the tank. They think they're judged. They think they're unattractive.

I want people to love me, but it's not going to hurt me if they don't.

My eyes are too small, and they're too close together, and I have a pointy nose. But who cares? Who cares?!

What is this drive to be thinner, prettier, better dressed, other? Who exactly is this other and what does she look like beyond the jacket she's wearing or the food she's not eating? What might we be doing, thinking, feeling about if we didn't think about body image, ever?

I love myself, the way I look, my body, but sometimes I can't help but feel insecure.

There are about 20 people in my life that I want to love me, and none of them are the 'Daily Mail.'

My mom used to tell me: 'It's not what you weigh; it's what you look like.'

I don't want to have to be beautiful all the time. I want to be able to look cruddy in my weekend sweats, with a pimple on my face and pimple cream on top of the pimple. The expectation to always be beautiful bothers me.

I find it funny that people now come up to me and say, 'Wow, you are absolutely gorgeous. I'm like, 'I was beautiful before I lost weight. Egotistically speaking, I thought I was amazing.'

I have been a big guy all my life, I am not going to lose a bunch of weight, because then you're like that weird fat person that got skinny but still has a big head. I don't want to do that. So I'm just trying.

I'm not as beautiful as a model.

I developed a nutty attitude where I'd think, If some guy really loves me he doesn't care if I'm fat. I'd come up with all these stupid reasons why it would be OK to be fat.

The biggest change in my life is that I now have to apologize for being thin.

I really do believe that my style is informed by the fact that I had such issues with my appearance at various times of my life.

Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

There's no difference if you're a supermodel or if you've lost both your legs. What are you doing that's beautiful or ugly on the inside?

There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.

I think I was lucky in that I wasn't one of those girls who are told they are pretty the whole time. I never got that. Nor did I ever obsess about my looks as a teenager.

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