318 Quotes About Body-image

The picture showed a nine-year-old boy who was so enormously fat he looked as though he had been blown up with a powerful pump.

When I was in my early 30s and appeared on CNN, Oprah, 20/20 and Entertainment Tonight, my loved ones didn’t say, “Good job!” My loved ones said, “The camera adds more than 20 pounds.” One detail-oriented aunt said “Not for nothing, but don’t wear red. You look like an ad for Red Lobster.

Society, advertising, and magazines want women to believe that thinness and perfect skin are synonymous with beauty, that it’s impossible to be attractive without these unattainable standards. But this is clearly wrong; most men love curves, stretch marks, and even your cellulitis that you abhor. So, caress them with a smile because they are the very sign of your femininity.

We are living in times where people are so used to a certain body type and all the superficialities defining it that they can no longer tell what is natural when they actually ‘see’ natural.

We are living in times where people are so used to a certain body type and all the superficialities defining it, that they can no longer tell what is natural when they actually ‘see’ natural.

I cannot let anything be her fault, even if it was. Especially if it was.

All the things I've done to my body, I've done out of love. Seriously. I've gotten ink to remind me of all sorts of places and memories, but at the core, everything I've had done has been my way of saying that this is my body. That I don't want the body everybody else told me I should have.

There are no corners to by body.I am round, round, round.

I deny myself certain trappings of femininity as if i do not have the right to such expression when my body does not follow society's dictates for what a woman's body should look like.