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.

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.

I am a girl, so I never looked at my dad's body and thought that's what I need to look like.

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.

I know what I want, I know where I'm going and I'm happy with what I am.

It took a while to grow the confidence to say, 'This is who I am, take it or leave it.'

Your kids are never to young or too old to hear nice words about them.