Ashley Graham quotes

Don't fall into the trap of sacrificing your self-esteem for affection and acceptance. No matter what your size, you are a sexy goddess. Remember that.
- Ashley Graham

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

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

“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

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

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