Jenna Johnson Quotes

Knowing that I'm not a model and I'm never going to be has relieved me of the pressure of looking good. If you don't establish yourself as McDreamy then you don't have to live up to it.

Singing is the love of my life, but I was ready to give it all up because I couldn't handle people talking about how fat I was.

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.

I was really beating myself up about performances and how I looked and this and that.

I modelled in my 20s, and it was an obsessive time. I was under pressure to look a certain way.

People don't understand the pressure on me to look perfect.

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 I felt that I was very well known for my figure and needed to keep that up for my work. And I regret all of it. I felt fraudulent and very shameful.

You're never going to look perfect to yourself even if you might look perfect to somebody else.

If you are ever wondering, 'If I have thinner thighs and shinier hair will I be happier?' you just need to meet a group of models because they have the thinnest thighs and the shiniest hair and the coolest clothes and they're the most physically insecure women on the planet.

I was over-confident while growing up. I think when you look a certain way, you try and compensate by something else. I was always a strong child, was always confident, but looks never mattered to me.

I try not to worry about my appearance as much as possible.

I have nothing against people having work done, it is when I hear tale of girls of 16 queuing up to get bigger breasts, that is when I despair.

I think sometimes what happens is that all of this feeling out of control manifests itself in trying to control your body; whether it's an eating disorder or talking about getting your nose fixed, as if that's going to be the solution to all the pressure.

The mass audience doesn't want to see you if you aren't perfect. If you don't look a certain way, if you don't have big pecs and great skin and the perfect eyes. And it's unfortunate, because kids are growing up with body image dysmorphia because not everyone is represented on the screen.

It's hard with ballet because your aesthetic really is important. It's different from acting and from film. Nobody wants to watch somebody who is sickly thin. And it's interesting because I have danced with people who are ill, have eating disorders, and a light goes off within them.

People expect me to be thin and perfect... I'm not.

I do worry about the expectation to look a certain way.

I feel like there's more to life then worrying about the way that you look.

Stressing out over how you look, what you're wearing, or when you're getting home is not worth it.

No amount of gym time will make you feel beautiful if you don't feel it on the inside.

I've become very aware of body issues and body confidence.

The pressure of looking a certain way and having to present yourself a certain way is hard. It's difficult to feel genuine about yourself when you feel the pressure of being a certain person.

At the end of the day, we all have issues with our bodies.

It's not all about having the perfect body, perfect hair, perfect smile.