Beautiful Bodies Quotes

“It wasn’t long before our hometown library became a refuge, babysitter, entertainer, soothsayer, and therapist. If I was grappling with something I didn’t understand—hormones, homework, boys, or bullies—I would find a book by someone who did understand, and the world seemed a lot more manageable.”
― Kimberly Rae Miller, Beautiful Bodies: A Memoir

“But everything I wrote was with one very specific message: Love yourself anyway. You don’t have to be a size two to be beautiful. Life’s too short to never eat cake. It was, and is, a great message. I just didn’t believe it when it came to my own body.”
― Kimberly Rae Miller, Beautiful Bodies: A Memoir

“There are seven billion bodies in the world, and I got this one. It may not be the best one, but it's far from being the worst. It comes from a long line of people who have survived things much more harrowing than social-media bullying or miscarriages. I've gotten the best they had to offer. It's a strong body and a soft body, while it's not as beautiful as I'd have liked, it's the only one I'll ever had, so I'm working on being thankful for it.”
― Kimberly Rae Miller, Beautiful Bodies: A Memoir

“I hadn't had a connection to my body since I was seven years old. I'd made it the villain of my life story - I blamed everything on it. If I didn't get the part, I blamed my body. If I didn't get the guy, I blamed my body. I didn't like who I was, I blamed my body. But I didn't want to blame it anymore. I wanted a truce. I wasn't ready to love it, but I didn't want to blame it anymore.”
― Kimberly Rae Miller, Beautiful Bodies: A Memoir

“But biology hadn't anticipated modern culture. In a world that coveted thigh gaps and bikini bridges, a thirty-three-inch waist might be perfectly healthy for someone with a broad build, but what's considered healthy isn't necessarily what's considered beautiful - which is why perfectly health people spend their lives feeling like crap.”
― Kimberly Rae Miller, Beautiful Bodies: A Memoir

“My whole world revolved around a constant effort to be better than I was the day before. Self-acceptance was for people who were done working, and I had so much work to do. One day when I had done everything that I needed to do, I would sit back and accept myself; I would love myself then. But now, now I had work to do.”
― Kimberly Rae Miller, Beautiful Bodies: A Memoir

“My new schedule changed everything about how I ate; my focus shifted from wanting to be thin (because for the first I didn't have to be) but simply surviving my schedule. Instead of counting calories, I focused on eating for optimal energy - I didn't really have a game plan; I just tried to eat the foods that made me feel good physically and kept me awake during my long days. Within six months of starting my web series The Daily Special, I had gone from a size twelve back to a size eight, and it had been effortless. I decided right then and there that I had found the secret; the key to being thin was being busy and happy. That was it, I thought. I just had to busy and happy all the time and I would stay thin.”
― Kimberly Rae Miller, Beautiful Bodies: A Memoir

“I was not rational about my weight. I could be rational about everything else in my life, but no matter how much research I’ve done, no matter how many articles I’ve written, I could never be rational about my body.”
― Kimberly Rae Miller, Beautiful Bodies: A Memoir

“If we stopped being ashamed of our bodies, the whole diet industry would collapse. I like being employed, so I have mixed feelings about that, but I could probably find another job, and I would be curious to see a society that doesn’t revolve around people constantly trying to hate themselves into perfection.”
― Kimberly Rae Miller, Beautiful Bodies: A Memoir