Carnie Wilson Quotes

That's the trouble with wishing you were somebody else. As much as you may want it, you know it'll never happen, at least not in this lifetime.

It's really hard to foster self-love; it really is. I think a lot of people who claim that they do have a definite lack of self-loathing are either lying or just in a place that I don't relate to.

I've spent my entire life trying to figure out why I was different than everybody else. Why is my voice so deep? Why am I so muscular?

In the beginning of 'Jersey Shore,' for sure, that was the real Mike. That's the Mike that I know, that's the Mike I love. And that's the Mike I strive to be every day.

I wonder how I seem to them. They must see someone I don't see. Someone capable and strong. Someone I can't be; someone I can be.

But this show reminds me that there are other aspects to me besides the fact that I'm a funny chick.

I suffer from an amazing amount of insecurities, and I'm grateful that my body image, it's normally not something I pay attention to.

I still have to work on my weight and some of my other demons.

Some people would like me to be round again.

Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself, in fact, confused.

I really have no interest in myself.

If you're sad about what you see in the mirror when you wake up every morning, you must change it.

Every person my size has a different life, a different history. Different ways of dealing with it. Just because I'm seemingly O.K. with it, I can't preach how to be O.K. with it. I don't think I still am O.K. with it. There's days when I'm not.

My weight has been an emotional roller-coaster for me, and I am ready to get off it.

When someone says to you, 'Oh, I don't take a good picture,' what they mean is they haven't come to terms with how they look. They take a fine picture, it's just that their image of how they think they look is not in touch with the reality.

I always feel like I'm so boring, but I don't get bored with me.

I only photograph myself at poignant moments in my life as a check of where I am and how large my thighs are.

I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered.

I'm searching, as we all are, for ways to feel good about myself. Certainly, looking in the mirror doesn't do it!

If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.

I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much.

I think that people sort of stereotype me as the blonde 'Baywatch' girl who's always in a swimsuit, so, I think, to tell my story - that I got up to 175 lbs., was so depressed I couldn't get out of bed - will show that life wasn't always good for me.

I was heavy and overweight as a teenager, so it's hard to be cocky or egotistical.