Ashley Graham is an advocate for loving yourself and the skin you are in. She confessed being insecure due to her size but she soon realized that she could not be successful until she loved herself. She is currently a fresh and important face in the modeling industry.
Here are some of her quotes that will inspire you to love yourself and to be comfortable in your skin.
Inspiring Ashley Graham Quotes
“You can be sexy and feel confident in your skin, no matter what size you are.” Ashley Graham
“This confidence is not something that happens over night. I have been working on it for a long time. I look in the mirror and do affirmations: ‘you are bold. You are brilliant. You are beautiful.’ If my lower pooch is really popping out that day. I look at it and say, ‘pooch, you are cute!” Ashley Graham
“I remember thinking, ‘if I don’t love that woman that I look at in the mirror, I am never going to be successful.’ That was the moment I had to start convincing myself to look in the mirror and start saying, ‘I love you.” Ashley Graham
“As woman gain weight they start judging themselves. But who cares! Embrace what you have. Say, ‘belly you might be poking out today, but I’m going to choose to love you and nurture you.” Ashley Graham
“There are some days I feel fat. I’m not convinced there’s going to be a moment where every woman in the world wakes up and feels like a million dollars. So, What I want to do is give women the tools that will help when those moments come up. Sometimes it can be as easy as telling yourself that you are BEAUTIFUL.” Ashley Graham
“That’s truly what my message is- finding self love within yourself and not comparing yourself to others- because there’s no such things are perfection, because perfection doesn’t exist.” Ashley Graham
“I love blocking people. I’m not afraid to block anybody.”
Ashley Graham Quotes
“As hard as it is, owning who you are and knowing what you want is the only sure path to affirmation… I want women to know they can get out of any situation if they return to their core source of strength: themselves.” Ashley Graham
“I tried every diet, from living on cabbage soup to fasting to weight watchers, and then came the frozen meals and the shakes. I realized that the more I took care of my body. eating what was good for me, then I felt happy and whole.” Ashley Graham
“The biggest misconception is that the purpose of going to the gym is to change your body. We should be working out to be healthy.” Ashley Graham
“The fashion industry may persist to label me as plus size, but I like to think of it as my size.” Ashley Graham
“I put myself out there, trying to prove that beauty is beyond size. It was risky, sure, but what I risked in terms of personal pride was nothing in comparison to what I was rewarded in terms of personal fulfillment.” Ashley Graham
“A lot of who I am is connected to my size, and I am so happy with who I am.” Ashley Graham
“It doesn’t matter what size your hips are when you measure them. It’s about, do you feel good and healthy in those hips?”
Ashley GRAHAM Quotes
“Words have power. The things that you say to yourself as a parent- the things that you say maybe even just one time to your children- they take it, and they take it into their real world and into their life and beyond.” Ashley Graham
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“I’m being my real raw self, and that’s what I always preach anyway. What you see is what you get.” Ashley Graham
“Sexy is a state of mind, and it can come in all shapes and sizes. It is different for every person.” Ashley Graham
“People want to know that there’s someone else out there that looks like them.” Ashley Graham
“There’s no such thing as being perfect, and that doesn’t just mean the perfect body.” Ashley Graham
“I used to be bound by people who places limits on what they thought I could do. Through that, I learned that is you want something, you have to be the one to go out and do it. If you don’t ask for something, you’re not going to get it.” Ashley Graham
“What you see is what you get. I don’t change who I am from public to private.”
Ashley Graham Quotes
“Confidence starts at home, and something my mother never did was look in the mirror and say she was ugly or fat.” Ashley Graham
“Words have power, and if you are going to use your words negatively, then that is exactly what is going to happen in your life.” Ashley Graham
“I work out not to lose weight but to maintain my good health. And anyway if I did want to lose weight, it would be no one’s decision but my own.” Ashley Graham
“Honestly, at the end of the day, what I want women to know is that beauty comes in all shapes and sizes. And that it should not define who you are.” Ashley Graham
“To some, I’m too curvy. To others, I’m too tall, too busty, too loud, and, now, too small- too much, but at the same time not enough.” Ashley Graham
“We can’t create change until we recognize and check our own actions.” Ashley Graham
“We need to work together to redefine the global image of beauty and continue to push for a more inclusive world.”
Ashley Graham
“I’m a confident woman with thick skin, and as a model in the public eye, I’m conditioned to accept criticism.” Ashley Graham
“I am more than my measurement. I’m not Ashely Graham just because I’m curvy.” Ashley Graham
“I say to myself: you are bold, you are brilliant, and you are beautiful. Today you will not let other people’s words affect you. You are worthy of greatness!” Ashley Graham
“I felt free once I realized I was never going to fit the narrow mold society wanted me to fit in.” Ashley Graham
“I know my curves are sexy and I want everyone else to know that theirs are too. There is no reason to hide and every reason to flaunt.” Ashley Graham
“I love what I do and I love where I’m going. I love how the world is changing right before my eyes. I like to say that my cellulite is changing someone’s life out there.” Ashley Graham
“I am more than my measurements … My body is MY body. I’ll call the shots.” Ashley Graham
