Adwoa Aboah Quotes

With Instagram and Twitter, you're constantly looking at other people and comparing yourself to them, and it's just not beneficial. There is always going to be someone skinnier or prettier or with better skin, and that same girl you're looking at is comparing herself to someone else.

I'm mostly a mess, and I hide it pretty well a lot of time.

It would probably break my heart to hear that people didn't like me. I don't look on the Internet.

I'm even embarrassed at times when my friends come upon my pictures.

Whatever comedian says he doesn't read comments, I never believe him, because we all have the same pathological problem to see what people think of us, and it sucks, because you try not to take it personally, and people are monsters and idiots.

We're living in a time when people are struggling to appear perfect.

Insecurity has been my lifelong thing.

However beautiful a woman may be, she gets cold feet, she gets angry, she fears, she has insecurity - she is a human being.

Just because it may seem like I am so confident, so happy all the time, there are times when I feel low. There are times when I want to curl up in a ball and not expose myself on social media anymore and just close it down because of the trolls.

We're not as happy as our Instagrams and Twitters make us out to be.

It's important to remember that what you see on Instagram is not reality. I find it hard to not be on my phone the whole time comparing myself to what I see on social media.

Anyone close to me will be familiar with my frustrations with certain aspects of social media: the behaviour it encourages and attitudes towards the self it can breed.

So many people don't believe in themselves; people are worth so much more than what social media shows.

I've seen the negative impact social media can have, particularly on younger players, who grew up with Twitter and Instagram as an integral part of life.

With social media especially, there's a lot of image issues that everyone faces because there's so much pressure on us.

I get self-conscious and I get insecure, as everybody else does, but I try not to show that.

This whole social media scene makes me sick.

I think we are becoming more obsessed about getting a certain amount of likes on our Twitter and Instagram accounts rather than actually living a proper, real, honest and organic life.

As a child, I was so deeply insecure.

The worst thing any of us can do for our self-esteem is compare ourselves to others, and that's especially true of women.

I'd never put much thought into writing an autobiography before, because while I have this public persona of being extremely confident, I also am extremely filled with self-doubt, worry and insecurity. This book came about because I was trying to sell another book, unsuccessfully, about health and wellness.

The first thing that happens to someone with a mental illness, in the throes of it, is that they lose all their self-esteem. They don't think they fit in.

Feeling we have to be constantly updated about the lives of our friends and that everything we say has to be out there leads to frustration, anger and jealousy much more than it leads to anything else.

I deliberately decided not to go on Twitter. I've read about how much stress it can cause. I don't think it's healthy.

Exercise! It's important for your health. And just remember that what you see on Instagram isn't reality.