Emily Ratajkowski Quotes

I used to not have any confidence when it came to my body - I developed very late in terms of being a girl!

My size wasn't something that I'd ever spent a huge amount of time thinking about - I guess at the age of 17 or 18 you don't.

I was a girl with freckles and grew into a young woman a little bit more quickly, with hips and thighs.

I went through puberty really early, when I was 11. It makes you feel weird - you know, like your uncle is now hugging you a little bit longer than he used to. I think we all go through wanting to go back - you're not sure you're ready for that body.

This was middle school, the age of miracles, the time when kids shot up three inches over the summer, when breasts bloomed from nothing, when voices dipped and dove. Our first flaws were emerging, but they were being corrected. Blurry vision could be fixed invisibly with the magic of the contact lens. Crooked teeth were pulled straight with braces. Spotty skin could be chemically cleared. Some girls were turning beautiful. A few boys were growing tall.

I was approaching adolescence. For some reason, I guess my mother thought it would be less crazy out in the suburbs, which it wasn't. I just think adolescence is hard for anyone.

I want girls to know that its okay when they grow up and their bodychanges.

I think when you're 16, if you have good parents, they generally just fade in the background. I had great parents, and because they were great, I thought very little about them in high school.

I used to pray to God that I wouldn't get breasts. Then in my teens, I tried to be quite feminine.

I was the best guy, you know, all through Little League and Pop Warner and that kind of stuff. But when I went to high school, I was undersized. I didn't grow. I was behind the whole puberty cycle. I didn't like high school.

An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.

By 12, my body had changed, although instead of blossoming into Cindy Mancini from 'Can't Buy Me Love,' I more closely resembled Chunk from 'The Goonies.' My inside world may have been filled with a poetic and vital feminine life force, but the outside world saw and told me otherwise.

I used to get bullied for being so small. I was really short until I was 16, then I grew a foot taller.

I've always had that naturally curvy body since I was 11 years old.

It's a bit different when you're 16 as to when you're 20. You're a little bit more developed and mature in your body.

Eleventh grade is when I grew into my body. My athleticism and speed took off.

I was always tall, but I had a real growth spurt between 12 and 14.

It seems that one moment I was this little kid only caring about animals and flowers and stuff, and then the next minute I was this raging stew of hormones. I don't know if you've ever been a raging stew of anything, but I wouldn't particularly recommend it.

On her daughter: And she's going through all these changes. You know, it's just crazy times.

My eleven year old daughter mopes around the house all day waiting for her breasts to grow.

I think everyone has their awkward phases. Growing up isn't easy for everyone.

When I went from girl body to woman body and all of a sudden I had tits and hips and a little tummy and natural fat in places, I freaked out.

I wondered what I’d end up looking like once I bloomed. I couldn’t even guess. If I had to be stuck in my own skinny, gawky, coltish body forever… well. It probably wouldn’t be so bad. I wouldn’t mind a little more in the chest, though. But wild horses wouldn’t drag that out of me. Ever.

Obviously from 12-years-old to 16-years-old, your body changes and that's nothing to be embarrassed about, but boy I was!

I remember adolescence, the years of having the impulse control of a mousetrap, of being as private as a safe-deposit box.