Crystal Lowe Quotes

You see your peers weighing 80 pounds and you think, 'Oh, my God, I've got to be 80 pounds or I'll fail.'

The pressure was if I didn't get into that dress size someone else would - someone else would get the job.

I don't want to be wondering about how skinny I am, wondering what I'm going to eat because I don't want to gain and I want to look hot and young, always and forever.

Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.

I've always been the porky boy in my head.

I modelled in my 20s, and it was an obsessive time. I was under pressure to look a certain way.

Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.

Women feel like we're fat if we can't wear the clothes we wore in high school. Men, in contrast, only start to feel fat only when they can no longer fit into a foreign car.

I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that's put into your head. You are never thin enough.

I loved eating and I did put on weight. I never actually felt fat until I started going for castings, for auditions.

I don't think it's good to constantly talk about your own weight and the fact that you look fat in jeans.

I hate my stomach. It's impossible to get it flat, and the area around my belly button drives me crazy.

There are many artists who feel that in order to move forward in their careers, they have to lose a drastic amount of weight.

Being too thin. Being bigger. I've been criticized for being on both sides of the scale.

One of the biggest struggles of my life is my weight. My weight is always going up and down, and I'm always fighting that, and I think that no matter what I do, I'm never going to look good enough to everybody else.

I don't really know why I'm not thinner than I am.

I feel like most actresses kind of have issues in body dysmorphia.

I was raised to be self-conscious about weight. Then as I got older and started doing television, it became a career issue, like, 'You have to lose weight or you'll lose that job.'

As a dancer I've always checked my body constantly; 'Am I having a good day or am I having a fat day?'

I was in a weight-cutting sport, in judo, so I had to be a certain weight on a deadline. It kind of pushed me into having a really unhealthy relationship with food in my teens. I felt like if I wasn't exactly on weight, I wasn't good-looking.

Whenever I go to L.A., the make-up artist or hairdresser will end up having a conversation about how fat they think they are, and I really just can't take it seriously at all.

Outside every thin woman is a fat man trying to get in.

I was my thinnest when doing 35 fashion shows a week in different countries because I didn't have time to eat. I've never bought the idea that models in fashion magazines cause readers to have anorexia and bulimia. And you can't be a model if you've got those conditions anyway, because you'll get acne and hair all over your body.

If I'm being honest that's something that I think to myself every time I go on Instagram - 'Look how skinny she is, I wanna be that skinny', and it's horrible.

I have seen actresses avoiding food out of fear that beauty would be lost.