Bayley Quotes

I was very worried about being unattractive because I think I look quite masculine. Sometimes I feel more masculine than feminine and I don't like it.

When I was very young, I wanted to be a girl. I was jealous that girls got to be princesses and wear skirts. It tormented me. When I was 6, I even heard that you could change your sex, and I was very intrigued until the moment I realized that if I changed into a girl, I would be an ugly girl, and this is the last thing I wanted to be.

Seeing myself as female every time I look in the mirror is painful in a way I will never be able to describe.

At 14, I'd have given my left arm to be a boy: I thought I was horrible and that no-one would ever find me attractive.

I have gender dysphoria and body dysmorphia. I don't like to see pictures of myself.

Why must she dress that way? I think she's confused about her gender.

When I was very young I never thought I was attractive, because I was a tomboy and I was always the biggest girl in the class.

As a kid, I was always mistaken for a girl. Before you reach that age where your sexuality starts to display itself, kids can look very androgynous, and I guess I leaned more toward the feminine. All those things were very hard, growing up, because you're trying to create an identity, and you're feeling shameful about the one that you're making.

I've always been the porky boy in my head.

As a little kid, I was convinced that I was a guy.

I always felt like the male from the time I was a child. There wasn't much feminine about me.

I was told my whole life, you're fat, you're ugly, you're never going to amount to be anything.

I think once I was in high school - I had boyfriends and stuff like that, but I think when I was younger, I went through a period where I looked like a boy, and people thought I was a boy.

You know all those models who say, 'I was so tall and lanky and everyone picked on me at school' - I was not that girl. I hear that and I'm like, 'Oh, you poor thing!'

When I was really little, it was very clear to me that I felt like a boy, and my friends were all boys.

I don't understand anyone thinking I'm sexy at all. I don't get it because, growing up as a kid, I wasn't. I was like a dork, fat, so for me it's really weird. I became famous in Australia when I was 18, and I was still a little bit chubby.

I was fat, and that was awful because when you're young and sensitive, you think the world is over because you're fat.

I was at the Olympic Games winning medals and I still doubted my image. I doubted what I looked like. That's sad.

I didn't feel attractive in high school.

I was pretty as a child and I felt that I wasn't very manly and that plagued me for years.

Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.

All my life people have made fun of me because I was so skinny. They kind of made me feel bad about it sometimes. I worried that maybe people will think I am really anorexic.

School is not a great place to have feminine features or a big nose, or to wear glasses or the wrong shoes.

Imagine if somebody said your nose is too big or your ears stick out. For me, it was my neck was too short. It stuck with me all my life.

I grew up believing I sounded like a boy.