Sara Bareilles Quotes

To set the record straight, I’m not upset for me, but for all the girls out there that are struggling with their body image.

I didn't appreciate the young woman that I was, or my young beauty, because I was so obsessed with the fact that I felt fat. It's never good to add to anybody else's suffering. It's an important topic to really get the gravity and the importance of - dealing with dignity.

I had had my own trials and tribulations with body image. I had gone through a lot starting from my teenage years.

One thing my mother did is that she never looked in the mirror and said, 'I'm so fat,'or 'I'm so ugly. I need to go on a diet.' Projecting that onto yourself is only going to make your daughter or son think that of themselves. Because they're a product of you.

Making ourselves feel ugly is not fun." "We are ugly.

I don't criticize myself; I criticize my body.

How much time have I wasted on diets and what I look like? People are saying 'We love you and love what you do' and you're sitting there thinking 'I'm not skinny enough or pretty enough.' It's taken a lot of work to get over that.

When you're in your own body, you don't feel great about yourself. I don't think of myself that way.

I suffer from an amazing amount of insecurities, and I'm grateful that my body image, it's normally not something I pay attention to.

If I like myself at this weight, then this is what I'm going to be. I don't have an eating disorder.

I figured being fat was my destiny.

Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight.

Women are wonderful, but they get so caught up about their body. We need to unhook from worrying so much. When I don't feel good, I look in the mirror and think I look fat and miserable. But when I feel good and whole, I'm not worried about my body because I'm living in it. It doesn't become an object.

Don't get hung up on the size. If you feel bad about yourself because a 12 is what fits, take a Sharpie, and write '6' on the label.

I don't weigh myself - it's all about how I feel in my clothes.

Learning to love my inner and outer beauty wasn't an easy road. I still don't always love the reflection I see in the mirror, but I have learned that my outer appearance does not define me.

I wish I had thrown out the bathroom scale at age 16. Weighing yourself every morning is like waking up and asking Dick Cheney to validate your sense of inner worth.

Some of my battles with weight have been very public. But most of them have been internal. Even at my thinnest, when my body was being praised, I wasn't happy with what I saw in the mirror or how I felt about myself.

I've never disliked myself, and my weight has had nothing to do with my self-esteem.

I used to be smaller than I am now, and it didn't make my life any easier. It's not really about your body. It's about what's going on inside, in your head and your heart.

The funny thing is, I don't actually think of myself as fat at all. I don't think I am. Not really.

Self esteem and a healthy body image for people with disabilities are so often hard-fought.

I don't like myself, and I don't like to be looked at.

I'm ugly.

I identify as a feminist. I have so many feminist beliefs - and then I'm so mean to myself about my body sometimes.