Gigi Hadid Quotes

I was bulimic and anorexic for a while, just hating my body. As an actress, I was never thin enough, never pretty enough. My boobs weren't big enough.

But if you are young and want to work in the fashion industry and are not naturally skinny - which most girls are not - then you are forced to be unhealthy.

In Los Angeles there's, like, this awful image because the girls are so skinny. I don't think it's attractive whatsoever, and I also think that it gives a bad image to kids that are in their early teens. It's not healthy.

There are people who you see on screen and think, 'Wow, that's a slim person,' and in the flesh they look nearly dead.

Any people whose lives are about the way they look, whether it's fat or thin, are in a dangerous area.

As a teenager, my favourite rejection was, 'She looks too healthy,' which of course translates as, 'She needs to lose weight.'

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

I've exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.

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

The waist is a terrible thing to mind.

Like virtually all of the women I know, I spent my teenage years battling with my body and feeling I wasn't good enough. A lot of that negativity is because I was pursuing a career in modeling and was told countless times that my body was too big. My hips and thighs were too wide.

I definitely feel the pressure to lose weight and be smaller than I am.

The pressure for an actress to look good and be skeletally thin is insane and unrealistic and it's a subject I've been fascinated by.

I'm so not into being emaciated.

I've never heard of a size 0 or a negative human. That's hard. A lot of girls aren't naturally built that way.

I see girls who are so skinny on the catwalks, and I know so many of them destroy their lives and their family's lives.

I'm tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.

I don't think just being skinny means necessarily anorexic.

And whatever my weight, I've always been skinny from the waist up.

I know the pain of somebody who's too thin and the pain of somebody that people say is too big.

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.'

Some models are naturally very thin, but if they aren't naturally like that, then what these girls do to their health to fit in... To be a size zero or a two when you're tall is incredible to me.

I hope I look skinnier in 3D. I hope I don't look three times as fat. That'll be disappointing.

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

I lost count of how many times photographers and designers would tell me to lose a bit of weight, especially as I got a little older and my body started to develop.