Poor Self-Image Quotes

You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.

I've just got a really bad smile. I go for the scowl instead.

Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body image issues are an aspect of their lives which is causing them low self esteem and day-to-day suffering.

When I was 16, I filmed an episode of 'Full House' where my family goes to Disney World. I remember putting on baggy overalls just to hide my stomach. When I watched it, I was pretty disappointed and bummed out looking at myself... I didn't feel good about my own body.

I know you're supposed to love yourself, but I really hate the way I look. When I look in the mirror I'm so disgusted by the chocolate blancmange abomination staring back at me, I actually apologise to my wife for my physical appearance. I've got no backside, an overhanging belly and I'm so disproportionate.

It would be hard to name a more certain sign of poor self-esteem than the need to perceive some other group as inferior.

I can't bear looking in the mirror - I guess that's why my hair looks like this.

From childhood, I grew up with a lot of apprehensions about my body and appearance. I was skinny, had acne on my face and suffered from an inferiority complex; I thought I was the ugly duckling in my school and college.

I literally think I look bad in every picture.

People can very quickly have a very poor self-image. It doesn't take much.

I've gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won't even wear shorts and a bra in my house because if I pass a mirror, that's the end of my day.

I didn't feel very attractive as a child and actually I wasn't.

If you imagine yourself to be someone who is very uncomfortable in their own skin, then it does funny things to your voice.

I was always a self-proclaimed poor slider.

I notice if I'm too fat or if I'm too ugly or there's skin hanging or whatever. When my clothes start not fitting, I get really self-conscious about what I eat.

I wear sweat pants; I look terrible all the time. I'm so vulnerable.

When I was a young girl, I lost a lot of weight over one summer - involuntarily - and was just really depressed and sad. There was nothing I could do to gain weight. I would look in the mirror and call myself disgusting every day.

Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.

People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.

I was skinny. I wore thick glasses. I had acne.

I basically went out with any guy who asked me because hardly anyone ever asked me out.

I was very, very large as a kid and never athletic, and my home life was a little upside down and I never felt comfortable.

I have no friends from high school. That was probably the reason I ended up dropping out, and I dealt with that by eating.

I felt like a loser. I was unhappy as a child most of the time. We were terribly poor and I hated my size.