Ashley Graham Quotes

I don't know what it means to be a sex symbol. When I look myself on a magazine cover I don't see it as me, but as someone painted, fluffed, puffed and done up.

My whole life, I've been judged for how I look, which is part and parcel of being in the public eye, playing sexy roles and posing for lad's mags, but I want people to like me for my personality and brain.

The whole sex symbol or babe thing doesn't bother me.

It's hard to always be reduced to the way you look or your sex appeal or what that is.

I don't think it's easy for women to watch themselves age. And I think it's obviously doubly hard to grow older when you are a public figure and you constantly have to see your image all the time, and people are constantly pointing it out.

It's hilarious to be considered a sex symbol. In school I was a beanpole with a nose I hadn't grown into. Being thought of as sexy makes one employable, but it's not going to last forever, so I try not to think about it. It's like something that exists outside of me.

Some people say I'm really ugly and anorexic; some say the only reason I'm on TV is because I'm pretty. I say to them: Get your slander straight. You are what you are, whether you're small or skinny or smart or dumb. Just do what you do.

I still don't buy the idea that I'm a 'sex symbol.'

It's everywhere, constant criticism of women's appearance in magazines and online. It's not easy to navigate.

By no means do I want to be a piece of meat for the rest of my career. It's funny when you get asked to do a talk show, and then they follow it up with requesting you take your shirt off.

It's not my plan or whatever in my life to be a sex symbol. It never is. You are who you are, but you can't help what you look like. And when you do a film, like for me, it's just not about that. I would prefer to downplay it. I prefer to downplay the sex appeal.

I used to cry myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because of the way men leered at and disrespected me.

All women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols.

It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.

Just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn't mean I'm naughty.

I see myself on the cover of a magazine and I don't think that it looks like me at all. My first-ever photo shoot was for the cover of a lads' magazine.

I don't consider myself a sex symbol.

When people say, 'You're perceived as a sex symbol,' I love the idea of that because it's so absurd.

People have a perception of me because of Victoria's Secret that I'm sexy, but I'm not a sexy girl. I'm very tomboyish.

I'm not a sex symbol, at least in the conventional sense.

People perceive actresses in a different manner when they are portrayed glamorously. I don't want that to happen with me.

I wanted to be Barbie.

I grew up with gossip mags commenting on how I looked.

As beautiful as cinema is, it's a massive part of the problem of why we look at ourselves in the way we do.

Men have better self-images than women. You know what I've never seen in a men's magazine? A makeover.