Irina Shayk Quotes

I really wasn't heavy in high school. But no one feels right in their own skin, particularly in high school.

When I was growing up, because I was a bit overweight and boyish, I thought I wasn't attractive to the opposite sex, but I have since met lads from my school who said I just seemed unapproachable.

When I was younger, the pressure was just being cool. I never thought of myself as a cool guy. I always thought of myself as more of the goofy guy.

I didn't feel attractive in high school.

I think if I was 5-foot-3, I would have been really popular and dated a lot more in high school. I didn't develop like the pretty girl.

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.

Nice to know I have that effect on boys. I mean, Christopher doesn't even know I exist, and Brandon Stark practically throws up when he sees me. Having my brain transplated into a supermodel's body was doing wonders for my love life.

Insecurity is a natural part of human nature, and there are times we feel our stories are not worth telling, so we turn to the people we admire for strength. If we dress like someone everyone thinks is cool, perhaps we'll be seen as cool.

I wish my 15-year-old self had known about my allure to the opposite sex!

If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.

I wasn't attractive when I was growing up, and I don't think I am now.

Middle school was probably my hardest time. I was trying to fit in for so long, until about junior year of high school when I realized that trying to fit into this one image of perfection was never going to make me happy.

If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.

I didn't have high self-esteem when I was a teen-ager, as I think most teen-agers don't.

I don't want to look at myself - ever. All I see is that my face is a problem. It's asymmetrical. I get terrible bags under my eyes.

For a long time, I did feel aware that I wasn't pretty or bubbly enough. Nor was I sexy-looking.

At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'

I've never felt like I've exactly traded on my looks. When I was a teenager, I was an ultra late bloomer, and my mom would say it was a blessing because it means you never have to wonder if guys are only interested in you because you've got boobs.

I never thought that I'd be considered to have a good body. I was bony up top and kind of dumpy on the bottom.

I was always such a skinny kid, so I kind of grew up with an 'I hate skinny' mentality.

I was a very, very shy, insecure teenager.

I wish I was better looking.

I was not a very popular kid in high school, and I had this idea that the way that I dressed would change how liked I was. It was that kind of Pygmalion story. I think, ultimately that's probably why I became interested in fashion, its transformative power, and how it can change your identity.

I never really considered myself attractive. I was always kind of gangly in school.

I've never been a great enthusiast about how I look and I am very... when I was young I had a real anti-talent for inventing myself as unappealing - craven and unremarkable.