Irina Shayk Quotes

I was actually very ugly. I was ugly. I felt very insecure.

I've never been a great enthusiast about how I look and I am very... when I was young I had a real anti-talent for inventing myself as unappealing - craven and unremarkable.

Anyone who has ever been an ugly adolescent - and we are legion - knows that the feeling of being unlovely and unlovable never goes away; it is always there, lurking just beneath the surface.

I don't feel body confident at all! Anything but, actually.

I am really terrible when it comes to guys. Inside, I just see myself as this overweight tomboy with funny-coloured hair and bad skin.

I've always thought I'm pretty ugly.

I wasn't attractive when I was growing up, and I don't think I am now.

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

For a long time, I did feel aware that I wasn't pretty or bubbly enough. Nor was I sexy-looking.

I was always told I was ugly. I still think I am ugly. I know I've got an odd face and you can't tell me otherwise.

I did some pretty embarrassing modeling, like catalogs and QVC. I know there's probably a stereotype where all pretty girls think they're unattractive, but modeling is the worst thing for your self-esteem, because you're never pretty enough, you're never thin enough.

L.A. makes you feel ugly.

I wasn't the prettiest girl in class. No breasts, short legs, gangly teeth. I didn't think I was model material, that's for sure.

I grew up as a child who felt she was very inferior to everyone else.

From childhood, I grew up with a lot of apprehensions about my body and appearance. I was skinny, had acne on my face and suffered from an inferiority complex; I thought I was the ugly duckling in my school and college.

I didn't grow up feeling very handsome.

As a kid, I never felt attractive at all.

I had very bad acne growing up. I had braces for six years, from the fifth to the 11th grade. I didn't look in the mirror and feel like someone who should be on TV.

I'm still the fat kid from high school who never had a date.

I grew up with low self-esteem. I didn't think I was very pretty. I had glasses, red hair and was generally quite a spod.

I love myself, the way I look, my body, but sometimes I can't help but feel insecure.

When I look down at my pale, skinny body, I wonder why any woman would want to sleep next to it, let alone embrace it.

I tried to make myself as pretty as possible and even then I thought I was ugly. I found it madly difficult to go out, to show myself.

I'm not pretty. The truth is I didn't think I could be a model at all. I was looking at some of the guys on the walls at Irene Marie and I thought to myself 'Jesus Christ. I can't do this. I don't look anything like these guys'.

I was always insecure about the way I looked.