BARBIE FERREIRA

You were not put on this earth to do everything to be sexually appealing to people.

People try to sell a fantasy with beauty campaigns. Overly Photoshopped, perfect, white, thin figures are a standard that most people still hold as beautiful because the industry says so.

I used to have a recurring black-and-white dream where I would drive in on a hover car and raid the shoe closets of this huge mansion. I don't know what that means at all, to be honest.

I feel like, growing up, yes, I loved looking at fashion. I loved Tumblr.

I'm a model, and I happen to model for curvy things, but at the end of the day, I'm still in front of a camera just like anyone else.

I like girly, colorful bathing suits.

I hate workout classes... Every time I go into one, my anxiety is really high. I leave immediately - like, before the warm up!

I am unapologetically myself, no matter what anyone's opinion is.

Not everyone relates to being a blond girl with blue eyes and is proportioned so she could barely walk if she was a real person.

I used to hate my legs, but I learned to embrace them. They may be bigger than the average person's, but they're beautiful. I love them, and I wear short shorts all of the time.

Acceptance is being able to feel beautiful in whatever you feel comfortable in.

There's so much more to people than their differences.

There's so much more to life than how you look.

I never thrived in high school.

Curvy and plus-size models will just be models once it becomes more normalized and we get more representation and people are used to it and not shocked by it.

I think representation is the most important thing in the world. People who are young look up to the things that they see in the media. They want to relate and to be able to say, 'Wow, I can be successful.'

I have a ton of guy friends who talk to me about their bodies, too. But boys are often left out of the body positivity conversation.

Tradition in fashion is held with such a high regard.

I think that people put a lot of worth into looks. Unfortunately, there's a standard that so many people look up to that is unrealistic for everyone's body type.

Definitely, when anyone asks me what I eat - I think that's the most disrespectful thing. There's no winning with that question.

When you surround yourself with really good energy, really good people, you almost don't even think about your body as anything but something to nourish yourself and keep you running.

I have no doubt in my mind that the new generation has a sense of unity and sensitivity that previous generations lacked. We are strong, and we are visionaries beyond just money.

I always, always take my makeup off last thing at night, no matter what.

When I was younger and really interested in acting, I would look at all the women on TV, and even the ones who were supposed to be 'geeks' or 'less attractive,' they all looked similar because they were extremely attractive and their bodies were all a certain way.

People are so influenced by the media that they really believe a 38-24-45 plastic-surgery body is normal, and they can't understand why a body would possibly have cellulite or bumps.