Julie Brown Quotes

I'm like, 'Yeah, I could afford braces, but why should I change myself to be what everybody else wants me to be when I'm OK with who I am and I'm happy with who I am?'

You're never going to look perfect to yourself even if you might look perfect to somebody else.

It means a lot to everyone around me that I look good, and I don't think it should have to. I just think I should look the way I do.

Being stick skinny to the extent where you can see your bones through your skin is not a good look. You don't need to be that to be beautiful or to be perfect or to fit in. Who you are is exactly who you should be. You can't let other people dictate your life or how you feel about yourself because then you're not living.

That is the thing I want to tell girls, to stop criticising yourselves and to stop comparing yourself to other people.

Life becomes easier when we stop aping people. Which is on all fronts, be it looks, body shape, or anything.

I didn't want to find out the reality that if I wanted my dream, I had to lose weight. That's a crushing dream for anybody... to change yourself to get your dream. Nobody should have to do that.

I feel like all my faults go into making the person that I am. I like myself as a person. And I think taking any fault away would change who I am as a person.

There's not one person that I say I want to look like.

You don't have to look like George Clooney. You just have to know yourself.

I wish I had thrown out the bathroom scale at age 16. Weighing yourself every morning is like waking up and asking Dick Cheney to validate your sense of inner worth.

Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.

There's a lot more to life than how fat or thin you are.

For so many years, I felt so insecure, so inferior, and I still have those moments, but I have a newfound confidence since I got in shape and changed my diet.

I like the way my heart beats, I like the way I think; I don't need or want anything to change that.

I've never been more normal than I am now.

I suppose one should have an integrated personality, but I've never really seen the point.

I absolutely don't care about my looks and I'm so used to them that I wouldn't change a thing. I would end up missing my defects.

Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.

I will never be able to fix myself enough to the point I like myself, so I just jumped to the point where I said, 'I like myself as I am.'

You can't think about things you want to change. Just be yourself.

I think it is very important that you like yourself for who you are and not want to look like anyone else. You also have to understand, many people have had cosmetic surgeries in order to look the way they look. So why look like them when you can just look like you? And there is nothing wrong with looking like you.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

I've never said I'm perfect, and I've never said I'm a skinny girl.

Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness. It's hard to see someone with a 'perfect' body and be like, 'Why can't I be like her?' But that person was born to be who she is, and you're born to be who you are.