Negative Body Image Quotes

In the beginning, I was very insecure. I hated how I looked in pictures.

I didn't like the way I looked in pictures - when I saw myself on a digital camera, I was like, 'Eesh.'

I've always been a thin girl. I'm not going to be fat, ever. Let's get that straight. Whitney is not going to be fat, ever. Okay?

Nothing tastes as good as thin feels.

I hate having my photograph taken.

I think we have become obsessed with beauty and personally I'm really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that.

I had body insecurities when I was younger. I still do.

For me, skinny is just a style of jeans -- not a goal.

I just think it should be illegal to call someone fat on TV... Because why is humiliating people funny?

I have a friend who actually told me that she'd rather be dead than be fat. This is a woman who, if I order a sandwich at lunch, she'll order a salad. If I order a salad, she'll order half a cantaloupe. If I order half a cantaloupe, she'll order a cup of coffee. This bizarre contest continues until she's down to sucking on a mint-flavored toothpick. At this rate, her preference for dying over being fat could be a reality sooner than she thinks.

She was convinced that she was anorexic, because every time she looked in the mirror she did indeed see a fat person.

You only live once, why be miserable? Fat people are miserable -- you are carrying 50 lbs on your shoulders all day, you get a disease called "pooped-out itis". Don't tell me that they are happy with the way they look and feel. I have to be honest, that is all I have.

I suffered from 'No one will ever fancy me!' syndrome, well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. Absolutely not.

I don't criticize myself; I criticize my body.

I definitely look at my body and I go: 'Yuck.'

[The press] said to me yesterday 'How does it feel to be called anorexic?' and I had no idea that I was. I'm not saying there aren't people in the film industry that suffer from it, because I am sure that there are. But I'm quite sure I don't have it.

I know you're supposed to love yourself, but I really hate the way I look. When I look in the mirror I'm so disgusted by the chocolate blancmange abomination staring back at me, I actually apologise to my wife for my physical appearance. I've got no backside, an overhanging belly and I'm so disproportionate.

I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that's put into your head. You are never thin enough.

When I was 16, I filmed an episode of 'Full House' where my family goes to Disney World. I remember putting on baggy overalls just to hide my stomach. When I watched it, I was pretty disappointed and bummed out looking at myself... I didn't feel good about my own body.

I think encouraging young people to twerk might be a bad thing. It's a stripper's move. If I had a daughter of nine, I wouldn't want her twerking.

I was 17 when my body started changing, and I worried about what I did wrong. I went through a period where I didn't eat at all. I also had someone who was encouraging me to take diet pills. I pushed myself to the extreme because I woke up one day and had hips - and a butt - and thought, 'Oh my gosh, I'm getting fat!'

I literally think I look bad in every picture.

I didn't quite believe I was pretty for a long time. I never thought about it.

Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans suffer from eating disorders, most of them young women.

She's a twosome, she's a foursome, if she'd lose some, I would like her more some.