When I used to teach yoga in Bangalore and Mumbai, I noticed many clients struggling to cope with their weight. During some days, they would come in with plans to work out harder than usual because of events they'd have to attend later that week. The insecurity of appearance is something everyone goes through... even I.
School is not a great place to have feminine features or a big nose, or to wear glasses or the wrong shoes.
I didn't like the way I looked in pictures - when I saw myself on a digital camera, I was like, 'Eesh.'
I'm not a 'sexy' 'beautiful' woman. It takes a lot of work to make me look like a girl.
My mother's mantra was, 'How would it look to the neighbors?' And so you don't do anything because you're worried about how it would look to the neighbors.
I don't want to look at myself - ever. All I see is that my face is a problem. It's asymmetrical. I get terrible bags under my eyes.
I worry I look posh and fat. I can't do anything about posh - I'm accentless - but I've spent 20 years battling my weight.
I had serious psoriasis as a child - it's strange that I make my living off my looks after years of looking like a monster.
Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.
I don't want to be critiqued about the way that I look on the Internet.
I felt like when I took my weave out, I wasn't pretty, I wasn't noticeable.
I'm very uncomfortable about the way I look but confident as a man.
We treat beauty like an accomplishment, and that is insane. Everyone in L.A. says, 'Oh, you look good,' and you listen for them to say you've lost weight. It's never 'How are you?' or 'You seem happy!'
Not one person I know isn't concerned with their appearance. To trivialize fashion is to rob ourselves of a great tool.
The fashion industry [is] built on, and thrives on, our collective insecurity.
I never like the way I look. I don't. I never look at myself.
I am not too keen on my nose, I don't like my knees, I hate my ankles, I am unsure about my behind, I don't like my legs at all. I am not too sure about my chin, my forehead is a bit dodgy. But, overall, I can live with it.
Wearing makeup is an apology for our actual faces.
The pressure to look good is intense. It is hard to be immune to that and the self-consciousness that comes with it.
There are times even I am a bit embarrassed by my look.
Girls pour their insecurities into their looks.
If you're going for an interview, you will dress smartly and look the part, that is absolutely fine, but it's just the level to which this becomes the ultimate focus of everything, where you have people who won't go to school unless they've put their make-up on, or won't leave the house unless they've spent two hours getting ready.
I don't want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.
I don't like the sound of my voice or how I look or anything.
As a woman, and as somebody in the public eye, we always have to be ready for the red carpet and have the nicest outfit, work with the best makeup artist. While all that's nice, we're also human beings.
