Body Dysmorphia Quotes

I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they transmit movement to it.

I think that promoting insecurity in the form of plastic surgery is infinitely more harmful than an artistic expression related to body modification.

I don't want to look at myself - ever. All I see is that my face is a problem. It's asymmetrical. I get terrible bags under my eyes.

All I wanted, to be petite and attractive. I was afraid I'd never stop growing.

There's a brain chemistry - the floatiness and the disassociation and all the things that came with starving - I became addicted to.

My arms and chest were always the hardest for me. I obsessed over my arms for 32 years! I did everything to bring them up: for 2 years, I did mini arm workouts every night before bed!

Over the holidays, and even during filming, I realized that I actually like my body, even if it's not perfect according to the book. I just feel sexy. For the first time, I don't want to get rid of the curves. I just want to tone it up. My body is comfortable, and it's not unhealthy, so I'm going to rock with it.

I used to have this thing about my legs. If you look at all of the Destiny's Child albums from when I was a part of the group, you never saw me in a skirt. I was always the one who wore the pants, because I felt like my legs were too skinny.

I always think I look like the Elephant Man - I can't get used to my own image.

I didn't choose to get anorexia. I may have made some childhood-like choices to try to control something. 'I know what I'll do: I'll just not eat.' That was the initial point, but then it spiraled and became a disease - not a choice by any means.

When I was anorexic it just seemed like I literally wanted to disappear. And now I would like to reappear.

I've been to a lot of photo shoots, and I see these girls that are just really thin. They're not healthy. They don't work out.

I've not got a celebrity body.

How I view my body hasn't been uncomplicated, but that was because my body was discussed and dissected at great length in a very public forum, when I was at a formative age.

I have had a love-hate relationship with my body.

When you look at women who have had plastic surgery, they have lost something - usually an expression, something unique to their face.

In high school I was the dog, always, and I never have felt comfortable or right in my body, and part of my whole exhibitionist thing has probably been a way of testing to see whether or not I really was this repulsive creature that I felt like for so long.

At 14, I'd have given my left arm to be a boy: I thought I was horrible and that no-one would ever find me attractive.

Sometimes I worry more about losing weight than gaining weight, because this is how people know and accept me.

Eileen Ford wanted me to fix my nose and my teeth. I said, Sure, great, but I really had no intention to.

If I can help and influence girls who are going through body-image issues then I think that's amazing.

I think every girl always has doubts about her body.

And I was ashamed of myself for feeling like I had to do that in order to look a certain way. I felt misshapen, just not natural anymore. And I think it was a big stimulator of my drug use.

When I first went to visit different agencies in New York, a lot of them were like, 'You have to lose a lot of weight.'

I do have body-image issues, just like everyone else. I mean, I wish I had bigger boobs. And I hate my butt. I want an onion butt - you know, a butt that'll bring tears to your eyes?