Augusten Burroughs Quotes

I'm a grown woman and sometimes, I might be a little fat, you know? Am I alone there? Not really.

If I had a great body, I'd be naked all the time.

As long as you feel confident, you're going to look beautiful. You don't need to be a stick figure to be beautiful.

You want to look great under your clothes and obviously without clothes.

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.

I would never become a size zero. I work out because I want to look good naked, simple as that.

Truthfully, I've never seen myself as being too thin. Sometimes I'll look at photos and be like, 'Oh, that's not a good look.' But generally speaking, I'm not too thin.

I love my curves.

As a gymnast, you always wear spandex. Being a teenager wearing spandex? It was tough accepting how my body looked, especially if there was any weight gain.

I was always superthin, too skinny, actually. I felt like someone could break me in half. I realize now that being a bit more curvy and toned is so much more beautiful.

Other than my sexuality, I am vulnerable regarding my physical appearance, as I am not what people considered ideal by most standards. For the entertainment business, I am not the body type of what is typically cast for television or movies.

I'm an outgoing girl, and I can't help the way I look.

I'm cool with the way I look, I'm not an ugly dog, but I don't see myself as a stud or anything.

Women are wonderful, but they get so caught up about their body. We need to unhook from worrying so much. When I don't feel good, I look in the mirror and think I look fat and miserable. But when I feel good and whole, I'm not worried about my body because I'm living in it. It doesn't become an object.

Beautiful? It's all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest... beautiful, no. Amusing, yes.

I really do believe that my style is informed by the fact that I had such issues with my appearance at various times of my life.

Charlize Theron is perfect. She holds herself with so much poise and grace. I don't know if she looks so good because she has the best body or because she has the confidence to feel comfortable in what she's wearing.

I'm not going to say I'm a big girl. I'm a very small person, but I'm a healthy weight. That might be a little weird for Hollywood.

I've never been supercritical about my body.

I am an unconventional beauty. I grew up in a high school where if you didn't have a nose job and money and if you weren't thin, you weren't cool, popular, beautiful. I was always told that I wasn't pretty enough to be on television.

I walk around naked all the time, but it doesn't mean I am completely comfortable and happy with my body.

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.

I've always been comfortable with my size.

Even in normal life, I'm not the skinniest model.

Get to like your own body.