Body Diversity Quotes

I don't think I'm curvaceous. It's simply that most other actresses are really, stupidly tiny.

I can't change my bra size. They're natural! I can work out and I can stay healthy and motivated, but I can't change some things. I really just live my life. I love my body. It's what God gave me! I feel confident with myself, and if that inspires other women to feel confident with their bodies, great.

To each his own, but I just think that we women have a certain body type. As Indian women, we have a beautiful body type. And I believe in the celebration of curves. Whether it's Salma Hayek, Penelope Cruz, Zeenat Aman or Shilpa Shetty, they are very curvaceous and beautiful. I don't know why anyone would want to fight that.

In Latin America, women are supposed to be voluptuous. They don't believe that you have to be skinny to be attractive.

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.

I'm not one of those women with a really thin body. I have body fat.

We have to stop this idea that we have to be a certain shape.

There are exciting, intelligent, fat people - and exciting, intelligent, thin people.

My reality is never going to be stick-skinny.

Everyone has a butt. No matter what size it is, you can work it.

I'm definitely bigger than a Rihanna. Pop stars nowadays are all perfect Barbie-doll bodies, and they talk about how they keep their bodies up with hard work, so in my eyes, it's good to have a regular, average body type in the charts.

It's important to accept your body for what God gave you.

I've never been a waif; I have a womanly figure and always did.

I'm a size 12 and I'm very happy with it.

You can look good. Don't let nobody tell you you can't look good because of your size... or what size your feet is.

Everyone has the right to their lives and to look the way they want to! Tomorrow I can put on 25 kilos... it's my choice, my body!

With 'America's Next Top Model,' I've always cast girls who the industry might call 'plus size' but I like to call 'fiercely real.' That was always important to me.

Women are so much more beautiful when they have shape.

I hate hearing from anyone ever saying, 'Oh, you only make clothes for models. That's so annoying,' because it just never, never is the case. Our top-selling size is probably a 12.

There shouldn't be a segregation of women over a size 16, it should just be all women who want to wear beautiful clothes.

In the beginning, it was odd to have so much attention brought to my body type. I thought, "Uh-oh, brace yourself." But everyone has been so positive. During the first season, a woman came up to me at dinner and said, "I just want to thank you - watching you has made me proud of my body." I thought, What an amazing thing for someone to say! To make anyone feel good about themselves makes me feel good.

I want to be a big, fleshy voluptuous woman with curves. I want a big bum, but I don't have one.

It's really irrelevant, but I wouldn't want to be stick thin. It's better to have bit of fat on your face when you get older.

'Sports Illustrated' decided to have curvy women not only in their magazine but on the cover of their magazine. Now, that means size diversity is here, and it's real, and it's not a trend.

The message of body acceptance built on Jennifer Lawrence's soundbites only empowers those who are willing to ignore the fact that her statements reinforce our current cultural views rather than subverting them.