- Be you. Everyone else is already taken.
- Hateful words stand no chance against self-worth and a little of humor.
- Everybody can rock a bikini, swimsuit, unicorn onesie... whatever floats your boat. If you wear it with confidence, you will look hot.
- For me, I feel empowered when I use my body to exercise, play sports, and explore the world. My body allows me to sing, dance, talk, feel - and eat a damn good piece of cheesecake.
- I want to be the girl that's real and show other girls that you don't have to have flawless skin or the 'perfect' body - because that's just not real.
- You don't always need to be this flawless female with amazing skin and done hair. Perfect doesn't exist.
- I felt like the sample size was right, and my body was wrong. I basically ended up going into battle with my body, and that's a daily battle every time you look in the mirror. Every time you see an image of a successful model or someone who you look up to who doesn't look like you, you think you're not good enough.
- There's nothing wrong with having a bad day. Let yourself feel those emotions because every emotion is validated.
- I'm happy with myself. I respect myself. And I know that no man, no jeans, no scale, and no booker is in control of my future - I am.
- You are good enough as you, so delete that Facetune app and step away from that really weird filter that makes you look smoother than Craig David.
- My story is one of ups and downs. It's made up of tastes of success and a lot more rejection.
- When I joined Instagram, I began sharing my raw photos along with my raw and honest thoughts and feelings.
- I treat health and fitness as looking after myself.
- I live by 'Everything in moderation.'
- I'm very much a positive person - I put good energy out there - so I don't feel like anyone would want to do anything nasty to me.
- You don't need to be retouched - because the real you is beautiful.
- Any images that I've had retouched, I look at them, and I think, 'Oh I actually don't want that.' That's why I don't share them on Instagram.
- The first time I learned about Aerie, I was blown away by how beautiful and confident the models appeared in their ads - and more so that they were un-retouched.
- After so many years of being rejected and having my body scrutinized... for Aerie to come along and basically say, 'We accept you. We don't care about your size.' To see those pictures on a Times Square billboard, and they were completely unretouched, I just was like, 'Wow. I finally feel good enough!'
- I think unretouched images are even more beautiful.
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