Torrie Wilson Quotes

I always tried, in the books I wrote, to make it clear: Thin is not the goal. But I was thin. So no matter what I said, the subliminal message was, "You have to look a certain way." And I'm not happy about playing into that.

I do a bit of work on my bum, but, like, I don't have a Dylan Bruce bum.

I just wanted everybody to know that I'm not fat. I'm trying to get an eight pack.

I am not the fittest guy, I don't have biceps and six-pack abs.

I woke up one day and I realized I wasn't born beautiful, but my wife was, so I decided to make a horror film about it: what it would be like to be born beautiful.

Pretty That's what I am, I guess. I mean, people have been telling me that's what I am since I was two. Maybe younger. Pretty as a picture. (Who wants to be a cliché?) Pretty as an angel. (Can you see them?) Pretty as a butterfly. (But isn't that really just a glam bug?) Cliché, invisible, or insectlike, I grew up knowing I was pretty and believing everything good about me had to do with how I looked. The mirror was my best friend. Until it started telling me I wasn't really pretty enough.

As an actor, and especially as a young woman, there's so much pressure to look good all the time and it really detracts from what our job really is about, which is portraying a different person.

I look hot and, most of all, skinny. I love the day after throwing up. I felt like a feather.

Women, we care a great deal about being thin and good looking, whereas men mostly care about sex - ideally with women who are thinner and better looking than they are.

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 got very self-conscious about the way I look. So I, especially with young people coming into the industry and young actors, I feel it's really terrible to start with their looks. Right? Because especially for women, it just puts you in your head at a time when you should really be focused on your work and what you're saying and doing and not how you look.

We know that ever woman wants to be thin. Our images of womanhood are almost synonymous with thinness.

I'm a woman, and every woman wants to be skinnier - unfortunately.

If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for some strange reason, which I think is foolish.

I would never become a size zero. I work out because I want to look good naked, simple as that.

I'm usually bikini-ready all year round.

I was never anorexic, so I was never that skinny. I was never bony-bony. But I remember thinking, I don't want to be this skinny.

People are obsessed with actresses being hairless, fatless Barbie dolls.

If you decide to tell a kid that looks don't matter, she can prove you wrong every day. Because they see it everywhere. That is age-old, going back to the Greeks, but now we're bombarded nonstop.

It's important to be fit, but you shouldn't get too skinny. You need to have curves.

With women, the way they look... it's the core of their self-esteem.

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.

Americans like fat books and thin women.

I look at myself and pick out the things I don't like. No matter how much I work out, I never get muscle tone in my butt and hip area.

I used to want to be tall, and then I thought, 'If I were tall, then people would say I was pretty and not cute.' And then I realized that there are worse things than being called cute.