15 Fierce Celebrity Body Image Quotes That Will Inspire You

Your body's not something that needs excusing, and don't these 15 famous babes know it.

1. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan On What's Important

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"Weight gain can happen at any point in time, and it is something that you are dealing with anyway, and it is OK. It is ridiculous to have this dictate your very being because I have always said that it is not the outside that defines who you are. It is what you do, what your beliefs are, your equations with people and just your innate comfort with being who you are that is just so much more important." —The Wall Street Journal

2. Jill Scott's Palatable Prioritizing

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"[After having a child,] I like my body better than I ever have. It's a little more curvy. I'm a girl who enjoys a great meal with great friends, so I'm not really that concerned about weight loss." —The Guardian

3. Melissa McCarthy Ain't Got No Time for That

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"Pretty much everyone I know, no matter what size, is trying some system. Even when someone gets to looking like she should be so proud of herself, instead she's like, 'I could be another three pounds less; I could be a little taller and have bigger lips.' Where does it end? You just have to say, It's pretty damn good. I am right here at the moment, and I'm OK with it. I've got other things to think about." —Good Housekeeping

4. Aretha Franklin's Ass-Kicking Accessory

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"I'm a big woman. I need big hair." —Encyclopedia of Hair: A Cultural History

5. Queen Latifah's Reflection Revelation

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"[I'm] accentuating the positive and eliminating as much negative as possible [...] I think I got to that place by not being happy with the other side — hating your body and criticizing yourself all the time. When I was around 18, I looked in the mirror and said, You're either going to love yourself or hate yourself. And I decided to love myself. That changed a lot of things." —Good Housekeeping

6. Mary Lambert's Sense of Worth

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"I love my body; it's the only one I'll ever have. I eat a lot of greens and work out and drink gin martinis and put M&Ms in my froyo and sometimes I don't do anything but watch Project Runway. I am allowed to look sexy, feel sexy, and be in love. I am worthy of all of those things, and so are you." —Mary Lambert on Facebook

7. Beth Ditto's Bag of Tools

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"My size has helped make me an amazing performer... I had to be more charming, more sharp, more hilarious. [...] It's a complicated bag of tools I acquired, and I put them all to work onstage — wit, thinking on my feet, not giving a fuck. I have survival skills that other people don't have." —Coal to Diamonds: A Memoir

8. Kelly Clarkson: Don't Start Nothing, Won't be Nothing

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"Sometimes I eat more; sometimes I play more. I'll be different sizes all the time. When people talk about my weight, I'm like, 'You seem to have a problem with it; I don't.'" —Self Magazine

9. Christina Hendricks: Bad... Seriously, All the Way to the Bone

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"[When my agent told me to lose weight] I thought, well, you might see curves there, but that's just a bone [...] so even if I lose weight that's not going to change anything. That's how I look. That's my shape. Do the math." —The Guardian

10. Mindy Kaling Goes All the Way

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"I feel the same way about clothes as I do about food. I want everything." —Vogue Magazine

11. Margaret Cho Makes Up for Lost Time

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"So how much time would I save if I stopped taking that extra second every time I look in the mirror to call myself a big fat fuck? How much time would I save if I just let myself walk by a plate-glass window without sucking in my gut and throwing back my shoulders? How much time would I save?" And it turns out I save about 97 minutes a week. I can take a pottery class." —from The Notorious C.H.O.

12. Adele's Colleague Criteria

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"Even when I was signing, most of the industry knew if anyone ever dared say [lose weight] to me, they wouldn't be working with me." —People Magazine

13. Sara Ramirez Forgoes "Forgiving"

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"I do remember an agent or a casting director I met saying that, when it came to weight, 'New York tends to be more forgiving than Hollywood.' I thought, wow, that’s interesting, what exactly are they forgiving me for?" —Glamour Magazine

14. Gabourey Sidibe Turns the Asshole Tables

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"[Reporters ask], 'How are you so confident?' 'I'm an asshole!' Okay? It's my good time, and my good life, despite what you think of me. I live my life because I dare. I dare to show up when everyone else might hide their faces and hide their bodies in shame. I show up because I'm an asshole, and I want to have a good time." —at the 2014 Gloria Awards, as reported by Vulture

15. Crystal Renn's Big Belief

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"During the shoot in November 2003, I was vaguely aware of the stylist’s sulky demeanor and eye-rolling vibe, but I blocked her out. [...] Later, Fiorella told me that the entire time I was in makeup, the stylist had been clomping up and down the hall, sputtering into her cell phone, 'I can’t believe I have to style a FAT GIRL!'

Believe it, bitch." —Hungry: A Young Model's Story of Appetite, Ambition, and the Ultimate Embrace of Curves