Kelley O'Hara Quotes

I don't have a typical body type, and that used to be something that made me feel very alone and weird.

I didn't really have an identity crisis because I really, really knew who I always wanted to be But I definitely had a lot of problems with my body. I was very skinny, and I guess my body was sort of pre-pubescent, but when I grew hips and thighs, I just didn't know where I was in the world. It was weird.

I have had a love-hate relationship with my body.

I come from a family of tall, curvy women. I developed in my body and my shape far earlier, so from a young age I accepted it. I embraced it and saw it as an advantage.

On a scale of one to 10, I'd rate my body confidence as a good seven. Everyone has their hang-ups, but I see my body as a training tool and I feel good about it.

I thought, well, you might see curves there, but that's just a bone - so even if I lose weight that's not going to change anything. That's how I look. That's my shape. Do the math.

I'm a grown woman and sometimes, I might be a little fat, you know? Am I alone there? Not really.

I'm not ashamed of what I am and that I have curves and that I'm thick. I like my body.

I get 'voluptuous' a lot, or 'shapely,' but the fact is that as you get older you learn to embrace your body type. I wasn't able to do that until I was at least 23.

I don't have a big hang-up about my body.

It felt as if my body was, like, literally betraying me because I went from a very athletic, straight-up-and-down little kid to a very curvaceous woman, and it was just horrifying to me.

I had a totally normal relationship with my body.

We all body shame and compare bodies, and that needs to go out of the window.

I feel like it's the last frontier: the weight thing with women. I think that so many women, like, even myself, I'm so mean to myself about my body sometimes, or I can be judgmental of other people for their bodies. I don't know how to get over it.

I love being in my own skin, and I hope other women start feeling better about themselves and waste less energy being ashamed of their bodies.

I've always been an overweight girl, and I've never had an issue with that. I'm very comfortable with my body.

I'm a real girl. I get it. I gain weight, I lose weight. My styles change.

Sometimes people feel really trapped by the body that they have. Women are told, 'You have this body shape; you're a pear or string bean, and you can't change the way you look.' That's just not true.

There's no shape or body type that makes you more happy or more lovable. It's the body you're comfortable in that makes you happier and more lovable. I look around and see how women and men of all types find the love and the life they want.

At the end of the day, we all have issues with our bodies.

I don't ever wanna blame my body for not being right.

I just think no one should try to make their body something that it's not.

I don't think there's anything wrong with the word 'curvy' or 'plus-size' because there are women who identify as that, and I'm not offended by it whatsoever because I don't feel like being bigger is anything wrong.

I don't have a Kate Moss body, but I'm very proud and happy with mine.

I love my body. I'm very much OK with it. I don't think artists are ever the ones who have the problem with their weight, it is other people.