Adam Richman Quotes

I'm learning to embrace who I am and what I look like.

I certainly used to wish that I was skinny, lighter-skinned, with long, pretty hair. But only because I used to get made fun of for being the absolute opposite. I didn't see all of that stuff as the American Dream. I just wanted to look normal. Now that I'm older, I really do feel like I am a beautiful girl.

I'm not a supermodel. I make the best of what I've got.

My body is my best asset.

Modeling and pageants help me overcome feeling insecure about the way that I look and my height.

I have made a living off the way I look, and I have really learnt to accept myself for being unusual.

I feel like there's more to life then worrying about the way that you look.

People told me that I was the best-looking girl in my college. But it was only after I won a beauty pageant in 2002 that I became confident.

When I was younger, I wanted to be tall and skinny. And because I wasn't, I was disappointed. The great thing about getting older is that I've come to accept my shape - and embrace it.

To me, the tragedy about this whole image-obsessed society is that young girls get so caught up in just achieving that they forget to realize that they have so much more to offer the world.

I know I'm fat and I know my hair is straight, but I can sing.

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am.

It kind of cracks me up when people say I'm hot because I just think that that's a term that I don't have to deal with anymore.

When I meet young girls, I'm always like, 'Just do me one favour. Love what you look like right now - and remember I said it 10 years from now because it's the greatest gift I can give.'

I struggled with self-esteem issues as a young girl, and it was not until my gymnastics career was completed in 2000 that I realized my accomplishments would not have been possible without my type of body, and I finally started to appreciate and celebrate myself.

I'm not an eye-candy kind of girl.

I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, 'Well you're never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don't even try.' I mean, I care about being pretty, but it's not my most valued thing.

Finding out I was pretty was a very nice realisation.

Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.

If wearing the Spanx helps you get looks, and you feel that energy and response, and you're rocking your body with confidence, that's still how you'll feel about yourself when you get home and take the Spanx off... If your attitude improves from the Spanx, wear the Spanx!

I used to look in the mirror and feel shame, I look in the mirror now and I absolutely love myself.

I contend that every woman has the right to feel beautiful, no matter how scrambled her features, or how indifferent her features.

A woman has no need to be perfect or even beautiful to wear my dresses. The dress will do all that for her.