Jennifer Armintrout Quotes

Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.

Well, you know, I have always had an issue with the whole weight thing with people in general because I happen to love how big women look. I mean, it's all a perspective. It's all an opinion, and I think sort of the Rubenesque, voluptuous body is a lot sexier than the boney bag of bones with fake everything.

I am self-conscious, and I'm aware of my body. But I struggle with America's limited idea of what perfection is.

I have a boy's body. I would prefer to have more curves because I think that's more beautiful. I would much rather have J. Lo's body than mine.

In Latin America, women are supposed to be voluptuous. They don't believe that you have to be skinny to be attractive.

We've going to bring back thighs. Enough of these size zeros. Thighs, and back fat, and over-the-belt fat, it's all got to come back again, and we're the ones to do it.

To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.

If I didn't have to fit in to sample sizes I'd be a size 14, easy. I wouldn't bat an eyelid.

I'm sorry, I just don't want to be a part of this conspiracy to make women feel pressured about their bodies.

I was never thin enough to be a proper model and not big enough to be plus-size.

In the culture we live in, there's this pervasive, shared agreement that there's a certain body type to admire, and it isn't actually based on anything real or substantive.

A man has his clothes made to fit him; a woman makes herself fit her clothes.

It seems totally unfair that the way we look matters so much. I mean, why can't we just get over this gotta-be-thin-and-beautiful thing? Why can't we just accept ourselves and others for what we are?

I was always trying to be leaner and thinner to fit the standard and the mold.

The pressure is on the women to be particularly small, and then not only that, the whole package. It's extreme.

I have cellulite - and had it even when I was at my absolute thinnest. I'm never not going to have cellulite. People need to just accept that it's there and maybe dress accordingly or use body makeup to cope with it.

In New York, if you weigh under 200 pounds and decline so much as a cookie at a co-worker's party, women will flock to your side, assuring you of your appealing physique. This is how skittish we are about the dangers of anorexia and the pressures of body image.

I was told I was fat in the modeling world, and a director on a shoot told me I needed to lose weight. The J-Lo booty wasn't popular then, and I wanted to be the perfect Hollywood girl - tall, blonde and skinny. I couldn't do the 'tall' because I was 5'2, and I couldn't do the skinny, either.

The public doesn't care about my size. It's just something for the media to talk about.

If you want someone who's big-boned and you like that, ain't nothing wrong with having a little extra meat on there. If you like them thin-boned, then that's okay, too.

I was essentially paid to perpetuate the myth that we are all, or should at least try to be, 17 and a size 2 forever.

It makes me sad that corporations and media and Hollywood conspire to make people feel terrible about their bodies from the second they wake up, so I sort of try to subversively undercut that.

Often too many expectations are put on by society as to what we're supposed to look like and it's fed to people at an age that's too young.

I feel like a lot of the industry and media portray this image of what beautiful is, or how you should dress, or how you should look, and I don't think it's healthy.

I've never heard of a size 0 or a negative human. That's hard. A lot of girls aren't naturally built that way.