Ben Affleck Quotes

I grew up with a lot of body image issues - not just about my weight, but I would always see these perfect orb, domed boobs on television, and think, "Mine don't look like that." I thought there was something wrong with me.

I'm a woman, and every woman wants to be skinnier - unfortunately.

People are obsessed with actresses being hairless, fatless Barbie dolls.

I'm not too hard on myself about dieting and exercise. Some stars are a little too bony for me. What happened to the booty?

It actually makes perfect sense why women in Hollywood get so skinny: because it's a way of controlling how people see you.

It is okay, I believe it is not wrong for the industry or the audience to think that a lead actress must look a certain way or have a body of a certain type.

Young girls are obsessed with having a thigh gap. I blame the impossible body standards set by Spongebob.

Today's beauty ideal, strictly enforced by the media, is a person with the same level of body fat as a paper clip.

These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly. Fashion is about dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women.

Some of these actresses or public personas who are very public about their disciplined diets, more power to them. I just don't see the point. Do you know, the people I love as actresses, I've never, ever sought out pictures of them to see what they look like in a swimsuit.

I’ve seen people where it rules their lives, you know, who want to be thinner or have bigger boobs, and how it wears them down. And I just don’t want that in my life.

The Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue really sets the social standard for what people expect the perfect woman's body to look like, and a lot of those bodies usually look the same.

I think the body image thing, everybody can identify with that. In our culture there's just so much pressure and so much attention placed on the way we look. You just turn on the TV or flip open a magazine and there's people who don't look like any of us. I think this movie is like, finally, a celebration of reality and of our imperfections. We're not all a size 2 and we're not all a size 0, and you know what? That's OK, because some of us like to eat!

I spent my whole single life trying to be thin just to find someone who'd love me once I got fat.

I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.

Most female models don't have any muscle mass.

The one thing I like about 'Playboy' is they don't have the anorexic look. The women are voluptuous. So I didn't really want to diet. I just wanted to tone up.

If you decide to tell a kid that looks don't matter, she can prove you wrong every day. Because they see it everywhere. That is age-old, going back to the Greeks, but now we're bombarded nonstop.

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.

In my 10 years, I never put a girl that was too skinny in French 'Vogue.'

I go to the gym a lot, and I see these guys, these young actors or models there, really punishing themselves - I mean, just killing themselves. And then I'll see one of them on a billboard, with the artfully messy hair, looking as though it's just natural and easy to have a body like that.

When I was younger, I used to look at movie stars with pencil-thin noses and think about a nose job. I've got a grown-up baby nose; it's not chiseled and structured. Then I saw how beautiful Audrey Tatou was in 'Amelie' and thought, 'She's got a nose like mine, and if she can have a baby nose, so can I.'

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

We live in a crazily youth-orientated world nowadays. It's a trickle-down thing. We see pictures of lithe, attractive celebrity couples such as Brad and Angelina or the Beckhams cavorting around, covered in tattoos, stomachs as flat as the singing in early 'X Factor' rounds.

My reality is never going to be stick-skinny.