Body Ideals Quotes

I wish I could be a model, and then I could have this fantastic body and parade around and get paid for it.

I want to be a big, fleshy voluptuous woman with curves. I want a big bum, but I don't have one.

We are being accused that some models are anorexic. But we as fashion designers cannot be blamed, because you know, when I talk to women around the world, rich and poor and young and old and intellectual and not, what they want to be is skinny. You ask them, 'What is your dream?' It's to be skinny. That's all they want.

I don't need to be super-ripped all year round. That's a pretty miserable way to live your life.

If you ask any lady they want to be taller, they want to be slimmer, you know, and they want a waist. I'm not here to make people look like a sack of potatoes.

When I was dealing with the eating disorder, I wanted to look like the stick-thin models, but then I started reading fitness magazines and seeing these girls with great bodies that weren’t too muscular.

Women are skinny for other women. Men want something they can actually hold on to.

Now every girl is expected to have: Caucasian blue eyes, full Spanish lips, a classic button nose, hairless Asian skin with a California tan, a Jamaican dance hall ass, long Swedish legs, small Japanese feet, the abs of a lesbian gym owner, the hips of a nine-year-old boy, the arms of Michelle Obama, and doll tits. The person closest to actually achieving this look is Kim Kardashian, who, as we know, was made by Russian scientists to sabotage our athletes.

I just wanted everybody to know that I'm not fat. I'm trying to get an eight pack.

Weight doesn’t matter. It really doesn’t. I mean, it does if you’re a model or whatever.

In New York, if you weigh under 200 pounds and decline so much as a cookie at a co-worker's party, women will flock to your side, assuring you of your appealing physique. This is how skittish we are about the dangers of anorexia and the pressures of body image.

A smaller waist is not the solution to all your problems.

I'm not trying to be a different weight. I want to be a different body type so that I'm not an apple. I just want to be a pear!

I'm not the girl for superhigh fashion because I don't have the right body.

It's unfair to the hard-core stay-at-home moms to pretend you're able to have an amazing body by chasing around your kids.

I don't have a six-pack. Maybe I don't even want a six-pack. It doesn't sound very appealing.

Women are all the same; we want to be smaller in the waist, longer legs, slimmer. I design for women and their defects, to make them better.

Young girls are obsessed with having a thigh gap. I blame the impossible body standards set by Spongebob.

The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says.

If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for some strange reason, which I think is foolish.

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

In a perfect world, I would be 6-foot-3 and have a perfect head of hair and look like Orlando Bloom.

In college, girls would come up to me: 'I want your calves.' It just makes me laugh. I guess people pay a lot of money to have the types of bodies athletes have.

The Congo is so fun. The ideal body type coveted by women in the Congo is this extremely curvaceous body. They're going through a number of extreme measures to get that kind of body form, and one of them is by using bouillon cubes.

But if you look at Victoria's Secret models, honestly, young girls don't necessarily look up to them for the healthiest reasons. It's more about the envy, the desire to look aesthetically best: it's an unattainable, elitist mindset.