Discover a collection of powerful body shaming quotes that challenge the notion of beauty ideals and encourage self–acceptance and self–love.
Body shaming is a form of discrimination that has deeply affected people across different cultures and societies. It’s not only harms a person’s self–esteem and body image but also perpetuates a toxic cycle of comparison and negativity.
In an effort to combat to negative stigma and promote body positivity, we compiled the most inspiring body shaming quotes. They serve as powerful reminders of the importance of self–acceptance, to embrace their unique bodies, and self–care.
Derived from various sources, these quotes encapsulate insights and wisdom to foster a more compassionate and supportive environment. As you delve into this article, may you find solace and encouragement to embrace your own unique beauty and cultivate self–confidence.
Together, let us challenge the culture of body shaming and create a more inclusive and compassionate society. Let’s enjoy our collection of body shaming quotes and find your favorite words.
Inspirational body shaming quotes
Every weight loss program, no matter how positively it’s packaged, whispers to you that you’re not right. You’re not good enough. You’re unacceptable and you need to be fixed.
Kim Brittingham
Most of us know that the media tell us our bodies are imperfect – too fat, to smelly, too wrinkled, or too soft. And, even though we may know it’s horseshit, these messages still seep into our brains and mess with our self–esteem.
Victoria Vantoch
Young women today feel vulnerable to judgment; if a harsh sentence is passed (or even suspected or projected), it is not her reputation that suffers so much as the stability of her moral universe.
Naomi Wolf
The body is innocent. Deeply, beautifully, fundamentally innocent.
Rachel Hartman
Women get boob jobs to give themselves a certain edge. Frankly, I don’t see why they nearly kill themselves trying to diet off their equally bulbous hips.
Kim Brittingham
Today a woman must ignore her reflection in the eyes of her lover, since he might admire her, and seek it in the gaze of the God of Beauty, in whose perception she is never complete.
Naomi Wolf
Beauty discrimination has become necessary, not from the perception that women will not be good enough, but that they will be, as they have been, twice as good.
Naomi Wolf
You can spend your life thinking your butt’s too big (or your cock’s too small) or feeling sexy as hell. Make the choice to appreciate your body as it is.
Victoria Vantoch
I’m not going to let my insecurities keep me from having a good time.
Christina Ricci
The average personality re–shapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul–desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change.
Truman Capote
Stop body shaming quotes
Stop trying to fix your body. It was never broken.
Eve Ensler
Seek healing, a refilling of energy and spirit, as soon as you see that you need it. You don’t have to push yourself to give, do, or perform when what your body, mind, soul and emotions need is to heal.
Melody Beattie
When you don’t give yourself the time and care you need, your body rebels in the form of sickness and exhaustion.
Oprah Winfrey
My great hope for us as young women is to start being kinder to ourselves so that we can be kinder to each other. To stop shaming ourselves and other people: ‘too fat, too skinny, too short, too tall, too anything.’
Emma Stone
Stop spending all day obsessing, cursing, perfecting your body like it’s all you’ve got to offer the world. Your body is not your art, it’s your paintbrush.
Glennon Doyle
[Y]esterday I decided to fight the f**k back. Reclaim my body and stop trying to change this chest and these hips and these curves that my mum and dad made and love so unconditionally.
Sam Smith
Everybody has a part of her body that she doesn’t like, but I’ve stopped complaining about mine because I don’t want to critique nature’s handiwork…
Alfre Woodard
Step away from the mean girls and say bye–bye to feeling bad about your looks.
Oprah Winfrey
Are you ready to stop colluding with a culture that makes so many of us feel physically inadequate? Say goodbye to your inner critic, and take this pledge to be kinder to yourself and others.
Oprah Winfrey
When you no longer believe that eating will save your life when you feel exhausted or overwhelmed or lonely, you will stop.
Geneen Roth
Uplifting body shaming quotes
Inspire a positive change in attitudes towards body image by exploring these impactful body shaming quotes.
I definitely have body issues, but everybody does. When you come to the realization that everybody does that–even the people that I consider flawless–then you can start to live with the way you are.
Taylor Swift
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
True beauty in a women is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she knows.
Audrey Hepburn
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.
Elisabeth Kübler–Ross
Any body type is beautiful. It’s all about loving what you got and rocking it.
Megan Trainor
I choose to take care of myself because I want to, not to prove anything to anyone.
Selena Gomez
Let go of anything that doesn’t fit, flatter and make you feel fabulous!
Juliet Landau–Pope
If I didn’t know better, I’d say I was thin. I do, however, know better. The fact is, I’m not thin. But here’s my newfound reality: You don’t have to be thin to look great.
Lisa Kogan
My weight? It is what it is. You could get hit by a bus tomorrow. It’s about being content. And sometimes other priorities win.
Melissa McCarthy
I’ve learned a pretty tough lesson that people can say whatever they want about us at any time, and we cannot control that… The only thing we can control is our reaction to that.
Taylor Swift
Body shaming quotes short
Love yourself even more and celebrate diverse beauty with these ten short body shaming quotes.
My job is simply to allow the light to shine out of the masterpiece.
Alfre Woodard
Don’t compare yourself to strangers on the internet.
Mara Ridolfi
The more you mature, you realise that these imperfections make you more beautiful.
Beyonce
No amount of self–improvement can make up for any lack of self–acceptance.
Robert Holden
They shouldn’t really try to conform to any kind of stereotype. Just be happy and hopefully healthy.
Rebel Wilson
Beauty is the enemy. We try to conquer not feeling beautiful all our lives. It’s a battle that can’t be won.
Miley Cyrus
Never be ashamed of your problems, your body, yourself. You are worth life.
Demi Lovato
You don’t encourage people to take care of their body by telling them to hate it.
Laci Green
The minute you learn to love yourself you won’t want to be anyone else.
Rihanna
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Body shaming quotes for Instagram
I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.
Alanis Morissette
You can’t shame yourself worthy.
Jessica Ortner
Treat your body like an instrument, not an ornament.
Gary Thomas
You can’t hate yourself happy.
Jessica Ortner
Everyone’s body shamed!
Tina Sequeira
You don’t have to love your body to be kind to it.
Alissa Rumsey
Chic is when a woman is in harmony with herself.
Giambattista Valli
You can’t criticize yourself thin.
Jessica Ortner
It’s OK to love your body the way it is.
Demi Lovato
Your body is the child of your soul.
B.K.S. Iyengar
Overcoming body shaming quotes
Take that inner critic along with you to the changing room or beach. Tell it to take a seat because you are doing some thing for you.
Dr Tara Quinn–Cirillo
Constantly worrying about your reflection and criticising your body, shape and size is an act of violence against yourself
Emma Thompson
Focus on the parts of yourself that will not diminish with time–humor and wisdom are not like collagen. You will make more of them as you age.
Eleanor Gordon–Smith
Being a healthy woman isn’t about getting on a scale or measuring your waistline. We need to start focusing on what matters–on how we feel, and how we feel about ourselves.
Michelle Obama
You will never have the exact body you would design, you probably don’t even know what that would look like, so start to love the body you have, whatever it looks like.
Robert Brennan
I don’t want to wait until I’m 73 to embrace my body. To look back and think of my beauty: How did I miss it? Let’s not wait another moment.
Ashley Asti
You’ve just got to laugh at yourself, honestly. I mean, I know when I’m having a fat day and when I’ve lost weight. I accept all of the bodies.
Rihanna
What spirit is so empty and blind that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?
Michelangelo
Don’t waste so much time thinking about how much you weigh. There is no more mind–numbing, boring, idiotic, self–destructive diversion from the fun of living.
Meryl Streep
How attractive you are is entirely based on how you feel about yourself.
Davina McCall
Quotes about body shaming
Your body is the ground metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopaedia, your life story.
Gabrielle Roth
She was every inch the skeletal goddess that had been promised by the bones of her feet.
Jefferson Smith
Sometimes all you’ve accomplished by the end of the day is to have maneuvered your body through space without grave incident.
Hilary Thayer Hamann
If you wonder what you were doing in the past, look at your body; to know what will happen to you in the future, look at your mind.
Dalai Lama
I’m known to have a hottie open / I keep the shotty smokin / Front and get half the bones in your body broken.
Big L
It happens very rarely, but when it happens it’s worth waiting for, that the instrument becomes part of your body.
Jack Brymer
Stop worrying about whether you’re fat. You’re not fat. Or rather, you’re sometimes a little bit fat, but who gives a shit?
Cheryl Strayed
There are two noble things in life: one to do charity and other to look after your body.
Fauja Singh
I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
Kate Moss
And I prefer the internet because I don’t like having a body.
Elle Nash
Positive body shaming quotes
Never forget the nine most important words of any family: I love you. You are beautiful. Please forgive me.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
True beauty lies deep within. No matter what you look like on the outside, if you know you are beautiful, nothing can change that.
Amy Davis
You are beautiful just the way you are.
Nick Vujicic
Try to overcome your doubt. Believe you are beautiful. Look at yourself through someone else’s green eyes. Believe someone out there will find you and kiss your skin until you can feel it blister with the heat. Believe in something bigger than your problems and you will be saved.
Max Bemis
But maybe you see beauty in me because you are beautiful, not because I am.
Amy Harmon
It’s OK to feel crappy sometimes and it’s OK to feel like you don’t look like the next person. But what you have to know is that you are beautiful and you are strong and you are worth it. It’s important to know that.
Jordin Sparks
Every weird thing about you is beautiful and makes life interesting.
Kesha
We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Marianne Williamson
And just in case you need reminding, you are beautiful.
Allison Iraheta
I might have a little bit of cellulite. I might not be toned everywhere. I might struggle in this area or that. But accepting that just empowers me.
Kim Kardashian
Final thoughts
These body shaming quotes serve as powerful tools in the fight against societal beauty standards. They encourage us to reject comparisons, judgments, and criticisms based on appearance, and instead foster a culture of kindness and respect.
By incorporating body shaming quotes into our personal reflections, we take a crucial step towards dismantling harmful beauty standards. So, let us carry their messages with us and spread the importance of self–acceptance and celebrate of every unique body.
Hope that you have enjoyed our compilation of body shaming quotes and that they have resonated with you on a personal level. Share these quotes with others, so you can help other find strength and encouragement in their own unique journey towards self–acceptance.
Remember, your worth is not defined by your appearance but by the incredible person you are. Embrace your unique qualities, nurture self–compassion, and let your confidence radiate. You are worthy, you are enough, you are beautiful, and deserve to live life to the fullest.