Top 50 Barbie Ferreira Quotes

I like forming connections with people who follow me on social media because they make me feel like everything is worth it.

The way I move, the way I think, the way I handle myself – it might be by accident, but it’s who I am, and I’ve just learned to own that.

As a young girl who was not confident in myself, I think I would tell girls of all ages that there is no one type of beauty, and looking towards one standard is the most unhealthy thing in the world.

Not everyone relates to being a blond girl with blue eyes and is proportioned so she could barely walk if she was a real person.

I had a lot of difficulty growing up in a society where everything is very closed-minded, especially with beauty.

There’s so much more to people than their differences.

I’ve just learned how to put things into perspective and how to not be afraid of change while making decisions for myself. Also, asking for what I want and demanding what I need and being more confident in who I am and my ability.

You were not put on this earth to do everything to be sexually appealing to people.

I like smoothies and things that go down smoothie-cool – when I used to live in Williamsburg, I used to get an acai bowl most mornings.

Tradition in fashion is held with such a high regard.

I am unapologetically myself, no matter what anyone’s opinion is.

I felt the term ‘plus size’ was inaccurate and kept all these beautiful, stunning women with the widest spectrum of body types I’ve ever seen – mind you, curvy agencies start at a size 6 and go up to a size 18 – from being seen and resonated with.

It’s always been a dream to be in a beauty campaign. Anything that can show girls they can look ethereal at any size.

I rarely got retouched when I started modeling, and it was crucial to me to show an accurate, realistic picture of me because that’s beautiful, too.

I have been on the Internet for a long time and have always gotten hate on the Internet, so there is a thick skin I have developed.

Curvy and plus-size models will just be models once it becomes more normalized and we get more representation and people are used to it and not shocked by it.

I used to be insecure about my butt, but I no longer think of clothes as something to make me look skinnier.

Knowing that girls are inspired to not have the burden of self-hate, even if it’s a tiny way, makes me happy to no end. It gets me up in the morning and softens a lot of the blows I get.

I don’t want people to think I think I am the most diverse thing fashion has ever seen or whatever. But there are so many different walks of life that I don’t represent, and there is no one person who does.

People are so influenced by the media that they really believe a 38-24-45 plastic-surgery body is normal, and they can’t understand why a body would possibly have cellulite or bumps.

I was on the cover of French ‘Grazia,’ which was amazing. It was all over Paris!

I love yoga.

Seeing someone that you can relate to in the media is everything as a child, and a lot of people are not granted that luxury.

There’s so much more to life than how you look.

People equate health to a picture in a magazine of a 6-foot-tall thin woman with her skin rolls Photoshopped and her waist edited to be tiny, so when they see bodies that jiggle and move around like they do, they assume it’s wrong.

Social media opened up basically every opportunity for me because, traditionally, I wouldn’t be thought of as a model.

I don’t really listen to the media or anyone’s perception of beauty, so it makes me almost immune to silly comments about my body.

I feel like, growing up, yes, I loved looking at fashion. I loved Tumblr.

I’m completely the opposite of an etiquette icon. I’m brash, and I don’t follow any social rules, really. I’m nice, but really, I’m the least-put-together lady in the world.

Less is more. I would notice that when I did my makeup, I was putting on more makeup than they did on me at shoots. A little goes a long way, so I definitely learned how to wear less.

I never saw anyone my size in magazines when I was younger.

Denim on denim was my go-to look for most of my high school years.

I used to have a recurring black-and-white dream where I would drive in on a hover car and raid the shoe closets of this huge mansion. I don’t know what that means at all, to be honest.

I’m a model, and I happen to model for curvy things, but at the end of the day, I’m still in front of a camera just like anyone else.

I never thrived in high school.

People try to sell a fantasy with beauty campaigns. Overly Photoshopped, perfect, white, thin figures are a standard that most people still hold as beautiful because the industry says so.

The term ‘plus size’ is so inaccurate. I’m not plus size; I have never bought an article of clothing that was plus size.

I’ve always struggled a ton with my body image, and I wanted to help other people not feel so ashamed about themselves. It’s a completely unnecessary part of everyday life.

I like girly, colorful bathing suits.

I think that people put a lot of worth into looks. Unfortunately, there’s a standard that so many people look up to that is unrealistic for everyone’s body type.

As a child, I was so deeply insecure.

I have a ton of guy friends who talk to me about their bodies, too. But boys are often left out of the body positivity conversation.

I think representation is the most important thing in the world. People who are young look up to the things that they see in the media. They want to relate and to be able to say, ‘Wow, I can be successful.’

I feel really comfortable and cute in bikini bottoms that have thick sides.

Hair-wise, the move for me is to not wash it. I try to only wash it when I have to or for a shoot or something.

My favourite movies are ‘Jawbreaker’ and ‘Heathers.’

Definitely, when anyone asks me what I eat – I think that’s the most disrespectful thing. There’s no winning with that question.

I always thought ‘plus-size’ wasn’t a term that was negative – it wasn’t something that I felt was something that was making me any different or making me feel like I was lesser than – and I found a community through it.

I just want to make sure girls know they don’t have to carry the weight of achieving nearly impossible standards on their shoulders every day.

Don’t be afraid to show off who you are.