Aimee Mullins Quotes

At school, I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking.

I was called fried eggs and all that at school. Size does matter.

There are a lot of people out there who are just bullies. They constantly keep telling you that you are too fat, too thin, your teeth are not fine, you can't speak English really well, and you are too short, etc.

I'll never forget the day when a woman came up to me and said, 'No, you could never be on a magazine cover. Your face features don't work; your eyes are small, you have a small face but a big nose.' I was only 14 and I had never noticed any of that stuff, you know?

I was teased up until high school about my hair, being short, my high pitched voice, and just anything you can think of.

People made fun of my skinny legs.

I was made fun of for being fat from fourth or fifth grade to eighth grade. That was pretty rough.

Imagine if somebody said your nose is too big or your ears stick out. For me, it was my neck was too short. It stuck with me all my life.

I've been bullied because of the way I've looked growing up.

Being a big kid, I was kind of fat and chubby, and I got picked on quite a bit.

That's something I've dealt with my whole life, people making fun of me and my size. Everything from having a huge forehead to the size of my feet, and not being able to wear the same size shoes as my friends, definitely.

I was totally picked on, but look at me now! I was definitely picked on by boys and girls. I was really lanky and skinny and the boys would say, 'Turn sideways and stick out your tongue, you look like a zipper.'

The first entry into modeling doesn't build your confidence. They pull out the tape measure and pick you apart. I'm a curvy woman, so I was definitely told I was 'too curvy.'

I've spent my whole life being told I have a face like a horse. You are just what you are, aren't you?

I have not taken my good looks seriously from the beginning. When I would be teased by my friends about my looks, I would just make a self-deprecating remark and let it pass.

I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.

So I've never in my whole life really been teased about my weight.

It took me a while to accept that I'm not going to have the curves other girls get.

I have a big forehead, and I got made fun of all time. When I was a little girl, they used to call me 'five-head.'

I felt different from everyone else - like an alien. The looks I received when I was 320 pounds were ones usually reserved for three-eyed monsters, half-man half-woman reptiles, creatures with hideous rolls of skin that sweated profusely and jiggled when they walked. That last one really was me.

If I were old, fat and ugly, I don't know if anybody would be interested in me.

People will make mean comments. People are going to say that you're fat, that you're this, that you're that. You just have to be comfortable in your own skin.

I was made fun of a lot in high school because of the way I sound and the way I was.

When I was heavy, people would say to me - and it was such a backhanded compliment - they would say, 'You've got such a beautiful face,' in the way of, like, 'Oh, isn't it a shame that from the neck down you're questionable.'

People used to always laugh at my hair, stuff like that.