#Body Image Quotes

“I definitely have body issues, but everybody does. When you come to the realization that everybody does that - even the people that I consider flawless - then you can start to live with the way you are. I've read interviews with some of the most beautiful women who have insecurities. And you look at them and you're like, 'How do you have? Name one thing wrong with yourself,' and they could name a handful.”

“No one has the right to criticize you for how your body looks, but they will. One thing I've learned from experiencing this exact kind of criticism is that no one else can label your body except for you. No one gets to have a place in your mind if they weren't invited there by you. So please do me this one favor: Don't let their ugly words into your beautiful mind.”

“I don't mind being pale. In high school, it seemed like everybody cared about being tan all year round, but I haven't really thought about it since then. I don't go to a tanning bed, and I get bored when I lay out. I put sunscreen on when I'm in the sun, and sometimes I get tan, but I don't really think about it very much.”

“I'd like to get some new clothes, but I can't find a Big and Short store.”

“My wife is so fat that when she lays on the beach the people feel sorry for her and try to roll her back into the water.”

“She was so fat that her clothes are made by Omar the tent maker.”

“She was so fat that her bikini is made out of two bed sheets (king-size).”

“She was so fat that her bathtub has stretch marks.”

“This morning when I put on my underwear I could hear the fruit-of-the-loom guys laughing at me.”

“And my girlfriend, she's FAT! How fat? She's so fat she wears two watches-one for each time zone!”

“Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid.”

“Not one man in a beer commercial has a beerbelly.”

“Men have better self-images than women. You know what I've never seen in a men's magazine? A makeover.”

“Men who can eat anything they want and not gain weight should do it out of sight of the women they're married to.”

“When a woman tries on clothing from her closet that feels tight, she will assume she has gained weight. When a man tries something from his closet that feels tight, he will assume the clothing has shrunk.”

“The reason I gained so much weight in the first place and the reason I had such a sorry history of abusive relationships with men was I just needed approval so much. I needed everyone to like me, because I didn't like myself much.”

“If my jeans could talk, they'd plead for mercy.”

“The only parts left of my original body are my elbows.”

“They just elected me Mis Phonograph Record of 1966. They discovered my measurements were 33 1/2, 45, 78!”

“When I go to bed at night, I've got so much grease on my body I wear snow chains to hold up my gown.”

“My body's in such bad shape I wear prescription underwear.”

“If it weren't for my adam's apple, I'd have no shape at all.”

“I wasn't a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.”

“The next time you look into the mirror, try to let go of the storyline that says you're too fat or too sallow, too ashy or too old, your eyes are too small or your nose too big; just look into the mirror and see your face. When the criticism drops away, what you will see then is just you, without judgment, and that is the first step towards transforming your experience of the world.”

“I think I have a superior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it.”

“I think my hight had the most significant single effect on my existence, aside from my brain. In fact, it's part of an inferior-superior syndrome. I think I have an inferior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it.”

“This is the body you've been given - love what you've got.”

“I don't want to be grotesque, but when you're 330 pounds, it's hard to wipe your a-. You know?”

“Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.”

“To all the girls that think you’re fat because you’re not a size zero, you’re the beautiful one, its society who’s ugly.”

“There isn't anybody that looks like me without clothes on.”

“Frankly, I've never considered my own figure so exceptional; until quite recently, I seldom gave it any thought at all”

“Frankly, I've never considered my own figure so exceptional; until quite recently, I seldom gave it any thought at all. My biggest single concern used to be getting enough to eat. Now I have to worry about eating too much. I never used to bother with exercises. Now I spend at least 10 minutes each morning working out with small weights. I have evolved my own exercises, for the muscles I wish to keep firm, and I know they are right for me because I can feel them putting the proper muscles into play as I exercise.”

“One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our souls and become worthier of sharing this planet with them.”

“At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.”

“The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.”

“I said, I'll put on weight. And I started having massages, taking cod-liver oil, and eating twice as much. But I didn't even gain an ounce. I'd made up my mind that on the day the engagement was announced I'd be fatter, and I didn't gain an ounce. Then I went to Mussoorie, which is a health resort, and I ignored the doctors' instructions; I invented my own regime and gained weight. Just the opposite of what I'd like now. Now I have the problem of keeping slim. Still I manage. I don't know if you realize I'm a determined woman.”

“I'm in shape. Round is a shape.”

“I use the word 'fat'. I use that word because that's what people are: they're fat. They're not bulky; they're not large, chunky, hefty or plump. And they're not big-boned. Dinosaurs were big-boned. These people are not overweight: this term somehow implies there is some correct weight... There is no correct weight. Heavy is also a misleading term. An aircraft carrier is heavy; it's not fat. Only people are fat, and that's what fat people are! They're fat !”

“Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.”

“In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.”

“I'm on a diet as my skin doesn't fit me anymore.”

“Let me put it this way. According to my girth, I should be a ninety-foot redwood.”

“Those magazine dieting stories always have the testimonial of a woman who wore a dress that could slipcover New Jersey in one photo and thirty days later looked like a well-dressed thermometer.”

“Authorities say brain cells may shrink, but they don't necessarily die. Frankly, I am cheered by the fact that something is shrinking. I'd be even more thrilled if what was shrinking affected my dress size, but you can't have everything.”

“I was leafing through a magazine where there was a before-and-after picture of a woman who went from a size 5 to a size 3 by liposuction. Was she serious? I've cooked bigger turkeys than her "before" picture.”

“It is my theory you can't get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture.”

“I've exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.”

“I have little feet because nothing grows in the shade.”

“My fat never made me less money.”