Dick Parsons Quotes

Like every girl, I felt amazing pressure to look like the popular girls, but no one told me the popular girls were all air brushed in magazines.

I was essentially paid to perpetuate the myth that we are all, or should at least try to be, 17 and a size 2 forever.

Accepting your body and body image is very important, because there are images that are put out in the media and in your face every day that you need to look this certain kind of way, that it's gonna take you far in life.

Many women don't appreciate their form because it doesn't look like what they see on the front cover of a magazine. They feel ashamed of their bodies.

Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.

We're always bombarded with images from magazines of what looks cool and sexy.

The message of the movie is to accept who you are and not to succumb to the pressure of what the media tells you is beautiful and what you should be looking like.

Not everybody is some kind of media model.

I don't think I'm curvaceous. It's simply that most other actresses are really, stupidly tiny.

There are people who you see on screen and think, 'Wow, that's a slim person,' and in the flesh they look nearly dead.

By creating so many illusory images of physical perfection, whether on store aisles or storefront ads, magazine covers or TV shows, we speak more to the profit margins of companies than the self-esteem of today's girls.

Beauty magazines make my girlfriend feel ugly.

We live in a crazily youth-orientated world nowadays. It's a trickle-down thing. We see pictures of lithe, attractive celebrity couples such as Brad and Angelina or the Beckhams cavorting around, covered in tattoos, stomachs as flat as the singing in early 'X Factor' rounds.

I've never pretended to be a supermodel.

Thanks to capitalism, the importance placed on beauty has never been so manipulated. We are the guinea pigs force-fed ads that tell us how pathetic we are: that we will never be loved, happy or valuable unless we have the body, the face, the hair, even the personality that will apparently be ours, if only we buy their products.

I have never understood models. I find it really hard to find beauty in that or to discover beauty because the beauty was so obvious.

I still have very normal insecurities, but I've always been made to feel like a body is a body, and it's not supposed to look like what you see in the media.

Ads featuring real women and real beauty are such a necessary component to offset the potentially dangerous programming out there for little girls.

I didn't realize I was the 'fat' sister until I went on TV and the media started saying that about me.

Let me just say that every cover of every magazine I've done has been airbrushed to death. No woman should walk around thinking that's what they should be. You shouldn't be beating yourself up.

They tell us in magazines and in ads, 'Oh, you should look like this, you should wear this, you should look like this movie star, or you're nothing.' And so we're all totally unsatisfied.

I'm not that good looking... nobody is that good looking. I have seen a lot of movie stars, and maybe four are amazing looking. The rest have a team of gay guys who make it happen.

Why the heck do we allow the media to ever tell us someone is gross? It makes me so mad. 99% of the world has flaws.

The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.

If you were an alien who came to our bookstores - or browsed our teen magazines - you'd think that only Earth girls who look like Mila Kunis ever got any action.