It took a while to grow the confidence to say, 'This is who I am, take it or leave it.'
Every sweet, humble young model is only one campaign away from becoming a fashion monster.
I know every girl has her own form of beauty, its just a matter of discovering it and celebrating it.
I know what I want, I know where I'm going and I'm happy with what I am.
I never plan tomorrow because I don’t even know what I’m doing today.
Being able to talk about your body openly is such an empowering thing.
Girls need to know that we are all unique and that we should all celebrate our unique beauty because it comes in all different shapes and sizes.
I strongly believe every model has a right to set rules for how she is portrayed and for me these rules were clearly circumvented.
How can any person justify an aesthetic that reduces a woman or child to an emaciated skeleton? Is it art? Surely fashion's aesthetic should enhance and beautify the human form, not destroy it.
There's not a woman in the world who hasn't felt self-conscious about something! We as women all experience it but we never talk about it.
From a young age, my parents always told me and my sister how important it was as a girl to be more than just a pretty face and I think we've carried that message through out our lives.
I always wear what I'm comfortable in. If one designer doesn't like what I'm wearing, the next one will.
I felt ugly, chubby, and stupid until I talked to my mom about it and she had me do a very good exercise that I recommend to every girl. She had me take a piece of paper and write down everything I liked and everything that I didn't like about my body and my life. By the end of the exercise, I realized that I had so many more things in my likes column. It showed me that while there are a few things in my dislikes column, I was giving ALL my attention to those few things!
Your kids are never to young or too old to hear nice words about them.
Mothers have a huge influence on how their daughters view themselves and how they treat their bodies.
I am a girl, so I never looked at my dad's body and thought that's what I need to look like.
Everyone thinks that because my dad was really well known for his body that I would have that pressure too, but the truth is that I don't look at those pictures of him being really muscley and say, "yep that's really what I want to look like!"
Obviously from 12-years-old to 16-years-old, your body changes and that's nothing to be embarrassed about, but boy I was!
I remember trying to work out like crazy to get rid of all of my womanly features because I thought they made me fat.
