In school I was always the funny-looking, tall, skinny kid that got made fun of because of my weird teeth.
I’ve heard that Bon Iver liked my cover of ‘Skinny Love.’
I normally go for a skinny jean, but I also wear a lot of flares.
When I look down at my pale, skinny body, I wonder why any woman would want to sleep next to it, let alone embrace it.
As an adolescent, Spider-Man was what got me through tough times in terms of being a skinny kid.
Kids called me ‘Skeletor’ as a kid because I was so skinny.
I don’t have a lot of curves, and I’m very skinny, so I always feel like I have to fake my curves a little bit.
Did you ever see the customers in health – food stores? They are pale, skinny people who look half – dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They’re dying, of course, but they look terrific.
It’s hard to fight in high heels or even jeans that are too tight. You can’t kick in skinny, skinny jeans.
I’ve been chubby, I’ve been skinny, I’ve been considered ugly, I’ve been considered cute… It runs the gamut and all of those things are very humbling.
Not that it was Twiggy’s fault, but the ubiquity of her image created a sense in young women that to be stylish meant to be skinny, flat-chested with an ingenue face and straight hair.
I am actually 7 foot and and one-half inches tall. I say Seven two because it’s easier. Unlike some tall skinny guys I am really ‘big’ weighing around 350 pounds.
That’s kind of how my jobs have happened over the years. It’s been referrals throughout the creature effects/make-up world. The drawings happen, and they see that it’s a tall, skinny thing, and they go, ‘Let’s get Doug Jones for that.’
I’ve always had a booty even when I was a baby, and when I was in high school and was skinny, I still had the booty. In Hollywood’s eyes, the perfect women has to be a stick figure, tall, blonde hair, with big boobs.
My elder sister used to get the fashion magazines, and I would go through them and find things I liked and buy fabric and copy them. But I hated what I looked like. I mean, I was sooo skinny.
Oh, I am such a little piggy. Everyone is always mad at me because I eat so much. They’re like, ‘How are you so skinny?’ I eat more than my husband!
I was sooo skinny.
I was so beautiful when I was young. And I took so few photos because I felt so skinny and ugly. I wish I’d just taken a few more shots.
I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I’m walking down the street.
I have never had skinny arms.
Every time I feel like I’m gaining a bit of weight, I’ll eat healthily for, like, 3 days. Then I’ll be like, ‘Oh, I look skinny again.’ Then I’ll go back to eating bad, but I tell myself it’s OK, I’m only 19, so I can do it while I can.
I’m just a skinny kid from Glennville, Georgia. I’m going to the Hall of Fame. Not to the Hall of Very Good. The Hall of Fame.
I’ve always been a fan of a good skinny jean, which William Rast does so well. I can dress them up or down, and they feel good throughout a long day.
The way I think about it is there are some people who are supposed to be skinny, because I have friends of mine who are that thin and who eat more than I do and don’t gain a pound, but that’s just their frame.
If you are a skinny, baby-faced teenager, the last thing you want to hear is that you’re cute.
I was straight listening to rap at 15: LL Cool J, the Skinny Boys, Whistle, UTFO. And Run-D.M.C.’s debut was at the top of my list.
I’m never going to be a skinny girl, which is good. That’s just not my thing. It’s more about health and truly being comfortable in your own skin.
If you’re skinny and you can’t play hockey in Canada, you aren’t left with a lot of options. I was left with running.
I know I don’t look like the skinny slender model. I know I look a little different but people like to watch me for some reason. It feels good and I’m humbled by it.
Yes, you could call me a tree hugger, an environmentalist, an eco-warrior even – except I don’t spend my life in a kaftan, smoking joss sticks and walking a skinny dog on a piece of string.
I was tall and skinny, and at 15, I was approached to model. I figured that models got to travel, and it became my ticket to travel so much so that if an agency could not fly me to another country, I would fly on my cost so that I could see that country and also make some money.
I’m not a sex symbol. How could I be with these skinny bowlegs?
I love not only the chubby ones, but also the skinny ones, black hair, the blondes… when I get up the stage, I give myself completely.
I had trouble getting jeans when I was growing up. I had little skinny legs and this booty that came out of nowhere.
I am really skinny even though I eat like a beast.
I’m not a skinny girl. I push it. I’m at the limit of chubbiness at all times, but I’m happy at all times.
Things go in cycles. It’s like fashion, like flares go out then skinny jeans come in, people want something fresh. It’s the strongest ever urban scene at the moment and I hope it can progress and keep getting stronger and be the base for something larger.
I went through a period at boarding school when my coaches wanted me to switch to snowboarding because they thought I was no good at skiing. I was too skinny. I had terrible technique. They were saying I should be a snowboarder, and luckily, I resisted.
I always loved Evander Holyfield because people think of him as a small heavyweight, but of course from the waist up he was a pretty good-sized guy, but he just had these little skinny legs and no booty and it made him look like he was small.
I’ve never been a six-foot-tall, skinny model, so therefore, I want to create an illusion. People always think I’m taller than I am – not just because of the shoes I wear but because of the way I dress. It’s all relatively streamlined.
I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I’m walking down the street.
I might wear skinny pants one day; I might wear thrift shop pants the next day.
When it comes down to it, I’m a ‘skinny jeans and graphic t-shirt’ kind of gal. My combat boots are my life.
I stopped dieting on plain, boring, unsatisfying food and started eating rich, delicious meals full of flavor and, yes… fat. I got skinny on fat and realized I would never have to diet again.
There have been times when people have told me to lose weight or tone up certain areas… It hurts no matter who you are and how skinny you are or how big you are.
It’s better to be skinny than to be fat.
One time, I was young. I was skinny. I was elegant. Getting old is terrible.
I’m lucky I’m tall and skinny, and I got to model to put myself through college.
I have rather skinny legs – I blame my dad’s side of the family.
I always talk with models and they always tell me how awful it was growing up being tall and skinny. Then when you’re older, you’re really glad. I think it’s nice to have been through a terrible time and then all of a sudden be so lucky because then you appreciate it.
I feel the most confident in whatever I’m feeling at that time. Sometimes it’s leather pants, a leather jacket, and a band tee, and it’s motorcycle-chic. Then there are times that it’s skinny jeans, a tank top, and a denim jacket. It’s whatever I’m feeling that day.
I had to teach myself how to walk again. It was crazy. I couldn’t even make a muscle in my leg. I felt like no muscles in my leg. I was already skinny. It was like my leg was dead.
We used to have massively long discussions about how we should stand on stage. Should we stand with our legs apart? No, all the guys with guitars in skinny jeans stand with their legs apart, and you’d think, ‘We can’t stand like that.’ We’d spend hours and hours, days and days, discussing how to stand.
I was always such a skinny kid, so I kind of grew up with an ‘I hate skinny’ mentality.
I first read about hypnotism at school, and I used to do tricks like getting a really skinny guy to arm wrestle the local bully.
V-necks are great because you can get a little fat and you still look kind of good – and I like to get fat sometimes, so it’s nice. I like to fluctuate between the world of skinny and fat, so V-necks suit me well.
I’ve always been a skinny man.
If you’re soft and fuzzy, like our little characters, you become the skinny kid on the beach, and people in this business don’t mind kicking sand in your face.
I never thought I’d run for president. My parents were immigrants to this country – and leader of the free world was not on the list of careers presented to me as a skinny Asian kid growing up in upstate New York.
I’m not like a runway skinny model, I’m more curvy.
I don’t why I was bullied. I was quite shy and skinny. Very nerdy, very bookwormish. I think I was just a target.
I like skinny jeans with Nikes or brogues.
The way I looked when I started modelling – I was a skinny schoolgirl, stuffing tissues into my little 32A bra. I wasn’t trying to be that thin; I was perfectly healthy, but still – that look is a total impossibility for women over the age of 20. Fashion has a lot to answer for, doesn’t it?
I was what they call ‘skinny fat’ – a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
