Meredith Ostrom Quotes

I love my body. I'm very much OK with it. I don't think artists are ever the ones who have the problem with their weight, it is other people.

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

I don't have a problem with the stories saying I'm skinny at all.

We all know what we don't like about our bodies.

I'm not going to have beautiful curves or Kim Kardashian's body. I just have to accept that.

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

Truthfully, I've never seen myself as being too thin. Sometimes I'll look at photos and be like, 'Oh, that's not a good look.' But generally speaking, I'm not too thin.

I could stand to lose 10 or 15 pounds, but honestly, I'm happy the way I am. I feel comfortable with it. I'd rather have that extra 10, 15 pounds on me than live a lifestyle of trying to sustain this unattainable weight.

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 definitely look at my body and I go: 'Yuck.'

I think that everyone in one way or another has some sort of body issue. There's something about themselves physically that they're not happy with, that they're ashamed of, that they keep constantly trying to change.

I don't want to be size zero and I'm glad I'm not.

I don't mind being slightly fat-ish, I just don't want to be fat.

And whatever my weight, I've always been skinny from the waist up.

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

I know the pain of somebody who's too thin and the pain of somebody that people say is too big.

I have never understood the clamour for waif-like women whose flesh acts merely as a thin veil for their bones - much as I would love to be thinner, I would hate to take it so far that I had no actual shape at all.

I have had a love-hate relationship with my body.

When I'm at the greatest odds with my body, it's usually because I feel my body's betraying me, whether that's been in the past, struggling with my weight and feeling that I couldn't eat what I wanted to eat, or that I couldn't get my body to do what I wanted it to do.

I don't have parts of my body that I hate or would like to trade for somebody else's or wish I could surgically adjust into some fantasy version of what they are.

I'm not thin. I don't starve myself.

I'm curvy.

Like virtually all of the women I know, I spent my teenage years battling with my body and feeling I wasn't good enough. A lot of that negativity is because I was pursuing a career in modeling and was told countless times that my body was too big. My hips and thighs were too wide.

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

I don't think what size I am really matters.