Cindy Margolis Quotes

I think it's so important just to have confidence in your body. Everyone knows that confidence is sexy, and it's knowing your assets, your strengths, and just playing those up.

I love my curves.

It seems to be unfathomable to people that I just happen to be 49 and look good. I am totally capable of accepting myself.

I like being a pin-up girl. There's nothing wrong with it.

I think the Miss Universe title not only gives me the opportunity to become a role model for Latina girls around the world, but to show that beauty isn't just about the outside.

The reason Jennifer Lawrence is allowed to be a body-positive role model to young girls and 'chubby' women is because she is representative of conventional beauty.

I hope that in some way that I can be some sort of beacon of hope, especially because I am not the typical Hollywood beauty.

I started modeling when I was - not older, but not 12. I have a mom who's a feminist - she's an English professor, an intellectual. She really gave me the equipment to understand that you can celebrate yourself without putting yourself down or needing to apologize for the way you look. I think that attitude is really crucial for a model.

What we all learn is that beauty isn't a size 2. It's not a size 4. It's not a size 12. It's how you feel.

I love glamour and being sexy and dressing up, and I think it's good to be confident.

I feel that we all have missions and purposes in life. Part of mine is allowing women to feel beautiful in whatever they put on - or don't put on.

When you've got curves - you need to show them, and I love showing mine!

Strong is beautiful. I want to shatter that stereotype that strong isn't beautiful, because it absolutely is.

I enjoy fashion and taking the effort to present myself well, and I'm glad that a lot of people refer to me as a 'Hijabster'. I'm not the greatest fan of the term, but I think girls everywhere should be confident in their own skin and be inspired to look and feel good inside and out.

Confidence is sexy. That's what 'Sports Illustrated Swim' stands for. They have this movement where you can just be beautiful no matter what shape, what size, your height, your body type, your ethnicity.

On my show 'The Real,' we often encourage women to fight against body-shaming and own the skin that they're in.

The relevance of beauty pageants in the Philippines is that it gives people hope.

Everyone should love themselves, should think that they're beautiful.

I have this whole thing: if you look good, you feel good, and if you feel good, you look good.

There's gonna be a time when I'm way curvier, and that'll be sexy too. What defines sexy is not someone's weight. Personally I like curves. I wanna look good for me. I wanna feel good.

If you're beautiful you don't need clothes. If you're ugly like me, you're like a house with no foundations; you need something to build you up.

I feel confident with myself, and if that inspires other women to feel confident with their bodies, great.

A real feminist doesn't apologize for her beauty. You can be a sexy, beautiful woman and be the smartest person in the room.

I don't think it makes a difference if you have children or you don't have children. I think it's all in the head about how you feel and, I don't know, I always like to be active and work out and eat right and just be active so I never see it as, oh when you're a mom you can't be sexy or you can't be in lingerie anymore looking good.

How do you make a girl know she's beautiful? What is the system for that, what do you show her, how do you give her a new set of eyes and turn her face back to the mirror?