Shannon Bream Quotes

There are some athletes who I feel like are just looking for likes, and then there are people who are just real.

You don't need people to tell you how beautiful you are on there.

Models are just mannequins seeking validation at the hands of sleazy fashion people.

I think that as soon as you think of yourself as a famous person or anything like that, you're objectifying yourself in some weird way.

I don't put weight on fame, and having people around me just because I am famous makes me feel really bad about myself.

I wish they would only take me as I am.

I just think women should love themselves more than they do. Because I think - with all the social media stuff - we look at ourselves too much, and we just destroy ourselves when we're way cooler than we know.

Very early on, you figure out that you put your self-esteem in the hands of strangers. There's a different commodity. There's the Helena Bonham Carter that everyone thinks they know, who really has nothing to do with me. But you just have to let that go.

Self-esteem is such a challenging issue for young women.

My ego's not the kind that says, 'I want to be an actor and be accepted as that.'

I don't need to impress children.

If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being.

I wasn't interested in exploiting myself.

Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.

I could really care less about what they think about me, but at the same time, I do have something to prove.

I don't have a strong sense of self-worth unless I'm doing something.

We think of ourselves as our titles or our jobs or our position in a family. We depend on being praised by others. But something happens when that praise is undermined.

I don't want to become known as just a body.

Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it's really hard to have full control of your character.

I don't know what a supermodel is. If they call me that, I might have to punch them. It's just so vain and so unreal.

I never looked at myself as the fat sister. Sometimes I would beat people to the punch and say, 'Oh I'm the fat, funny one,' because that's what people would say about me. But I never really thought that.

I have to prove myself to everybody.

I just want people to see me. I want people to say that Shannon Briggs is someone that looked good.

Obsessing about my image - that's not my shtick.

When someone tells me that I'm not real, I say to them, 'Well, what about me isn't real?' I have not changed my figure. This is who I am.