Misty Copeland Quotes

Girls are so in their head about their body image. It doesn't matter how confident you are - it's hormones!

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 feel like most actresses kind of have issues in body dysmorphia.

There isn't a woman alive who doesn't have problems with her body. Including me!

The story with anorexic girls - nobody works with anorexic girls. That has nothing to do with fashion.

I think every girl always has doubts about her body.

It's hard being a girl. There are a lot of body image issues that come up and I think the best thing we can do for our kids is lead by example.

In New York, if you weigh under 200 pounds and decline so much as a cookie at a co-worker's party, women will flock to your side, assuring you of your appealing physique. This is how skittish we are about the dangers of anorexia and the pressures of body image.

Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.

And I was ashamed of myself for feeling like I had to do that in order to look a certain way. I felt misshapen, just not natural anymore. And I think it was a big stimulator of my drug use.

I think that promoting insecurity in the form of plastic surgery is infinitely more harmful than an artistic expression related to body modification.

Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body image issues are an aspect of their lives which is causing them low self esteem and day-to-day suffering.

I've never heard of a size 0 or a negative human. That's hard. A lot of girls aren't naturally built that way.

An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.

I've long struggled with my body image and have worked hard to achieve a healthy weight.

It's incredibly difficult to keep a healthy body image in this business.

Like any woman, I worry about my body.

I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.

Being too thin. Being bigger. I've been criticized for being on both sides of the scale.

As a dancer, I've always checked my body constantly: 'Am I having a good day, or am I having a fat day?' I am probably more critical of myself than anyone else. I am very tiny - 5'1 and a half inches - so there's nowhere for weight to hide.

The waist is a terrible thing to mind.

You'll probably find most models are incredibly insecure about their bodies.

I'm really tired, incredibly tired of hearing people say that fashion is behind anorexia.

I want to be a voice for that: just because I've lost weight doesn't mean that I'm happy and content with my body. Because of the media, and because of what I feel I should look like, it's always going to be a battle in my head.

I felt like the sample size was right, and my body was wrong. I basically ended up going into battle with my body, and that's a daily battle every time you look in the mirror. Every time you see an image of a successful model or someone who you look up to who doesn't look like you, you think you're not good enough.