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.

Mothers have a huge influence on how their daughters view themselves and how they treat their bodies.

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

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 remember trying to work out like crazy to get rid of all of my womanly features because I thought they made me fat.