It felt as if my body was, like, literally betraying me because I went from a very athletic, straight-up-and-down little kid to a very curvaceous woman, and it was just horrifying to me.
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Related I was very self-conscious about my body from a young age. At school, I played football and netball a... BRYONY SHAW My thighs were huge; they were like rock! Growing up, I was really athletic, and I had a very athlet... GIGI HADID Jon Stewart says that he was a little kid with a big head. He had very little athletic ability. He w... BRIAN KILMEADE It's very sad, very sad, ... He was just as close to me as if he was my own grandson, and I felt tha... ROSA PARKS It really came as a surprise. I'm really happy and the award really means a lot to me. For a moment,... JAY CHOU I was not particularly bright, I wasn't very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, ... UMA THURMAN I’d always done a lot of (sniffing) glue as a kid. I was very interested in glue, and then I went ... IRVINE WELSH I was just such a quiet kid. I found boxing when I was 14 years old. I went down to the gym because ... SUGAR RAY LEONARD I went back to those graves not long afterward and found as I stood there that sadness was a very he... ARTHUR GOLDEN Id always done a lot of (sniffing) glue as a kid. I was very interested in glue, and then I went t... IRVINE WELSH It wasn't going too bad today, until I crashed into a wall! Up to then I was running sixth, and the ... ADAM CARROLL My mom told me to cover up my arms ever since I was little because I was muscular. She wanted me to ... MARTINA NAVRATILOVA Hitting is very important to me, so I'm not one that likes to sit and watch. I did that one year whe... BRENNAN GARR I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me,... MADONNA CICCONE I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn’t taste like anything, but it went straight d... SYLVIA PLATH I remember the moment when it hit me. I was walking down Amsterdam Avenue on the Upper West Side, an... MATISYAHU I felt a bump from the left rear of my car. Ryan was up over me. He was upside down and there was a ... ALEX BARRON I deliberately went to boarding school. It was my choice. My mum was abroad and I wanted to wean mys... ALICE ENGLERT I felt a little nervous. I had never seen so many flags. Not just Dominican flags, but also from Ven... BARTOLO COLON It was a huge play for me because I really owe a lot to the team by accepting me coming straight fro... AUNDRAE ALLISON I walk like a duck: very straight up and down. Or like a penguin. It's a dead giveaway that I... DAVID HALLBERG When I was a model, everybody was scrutinising me and I felt I had to go to the gym because my figur... SAMANTHA FOX My mother always tells me that when I was a little kid, my first ambition was to be a truck driver, ... PREITY ZINTA I literally went straight to New York City from Iraq, which was bizarre and complicated. I was walki... PHIL KLAY It was very hard for me to do. Extremely hard for me to do. I truly felt like a failure. I feel like... AMY DANER It was 14 miles straight up and straight down, and you got up to 14,000 feet in altitude. It was lik... FRANK GAY When I was a kid, you know, you went to church and you went to ball games. And that was your enterta... DORIS NORTHAM I was suffering a divorce, and I was very unhappy because my children were very young. It hit me whe... CAROLL SPINNEY I was horrified to see all of those bites all over my body. I became very upset and alarmed. I was m... LESLIE FOX Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender. IONE SKYE I was a very extrovert kid. It felt normal to me to act. I always went to regular schools. I've ... KIRSTEN DUNST I was like a little kid. I was jumping up and down and couldn't believe my eyes. This was a wonderfu... JACKIE CLARK It just became a deal where I didn't feel like it was the team, I felt like it was 'me. I went throu... BRAD CHILDRESS I was an athletic person, ... One day I wake up and my legs are swollen. I thought I had a hernia. T... BLACK ROB He was like a father to me. He was a down-to-earth guy, very straight forward. He let you know what ... GARY MARSH I was in the stands jumping up and down. Because, from my angle, it looked like he got in. I was che... ANDRE DYSON I just felt like going out there a little more motivated to get the win. It was a little extra for m... ANTONIO MCDYESS Part of what was in the ether all around me growing up, until I was between 19 and 20, was a terribl... TIM GUNN (It was) like a giant hand reaching down from the sky, grabbing me like a frog, and throwing me full... TOM GREEN Early on, I played a Chinese delivery person, and even that, which was very innocuous, felt like I w... JOHN CHO It was a little too lonely for me, ... The (traditional Mexican) music took me to a place that felt ... EUGENE RODRIGUEZ My mother finally took me to a child psychologist, who knew exactly what I was, but she just couldn�... CHARLAINE HARRIS My dad took me out to see a meteor shower when I was a little kid, and it was scary for me because h... STEVEN SPIELBERG The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I ... JANE GOODALL Why did they do it? Beats the hell out of me. I was just a scared kid from Kentucky, and these guys ... PEE WEE REESE In previous roles, I have thought of my body as 'Betty's body,' and I try not to eat too... BETTY GILPIN I was surprised to find that the queen is actually a very friendly person. I felt very relaxed aroun... ALVINA TAN I went to three other parishes, but I really felt comfortable at St. Lawrence. I went to one liturgy... GLADYS POZZA Sometimes, as Eve was born from one of Adam’s ribs, a woman was born during my sleep from a crampe... MARCEL PROUST As a kid, we had one television channel and a sad little roller rink. And there was not much else to... DARBY STANCHFIELD I just felt a thump and then Ryan was up and over me. He was upside down and then there a lot of fir... ALEX BARRON Because you’re very special, Brynne.” “How special, Ethan?” I whispered because I was ... RAINE MILLER My waist used to be tiny. I just saw a picture of Miley Cyrus with a little crop top and low pants, ... CAMILA ALVES We bumped into each other while shopping in LA and she invited me to one of her rehearsals. So I wen... FEFE DOBSON I cried when I found out I was a finalist, I kind of went limp when they called my name. I felt like... NAIMA ADEDAPO I went out to shoot with (my dad) and he let me know straight out what I was doing wrong and how to ... JODI HOWELL I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I ... ANGELINA JOLIE When I was a little girl, my dream was just to hear my song on the radio. It was very fascinating to... BEBE REXHA Now, where does my comedy come from, like, as a human being? Yeah, when I was a kid I was dyslexic a... DAX SHEPARD The game was very, very good to me. I felt like I was equally as good to the game the way I played i... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I heard a loud crash, and then all hell broke loose. I went straight down, then I was just trying to... JOSEPH CAPACI I feel like I missed Wimbledon two years in a row, and I feel I've missed the French two years in a ... ANDRE AGASSI The biggest thing for me was getting to a point where my wife and I together felt that it was time, ... MIKE SINGLETARY I loved 'Fantasia' as a kid because it filled me with wonder, enchantment and awe. It was my... NICOLAS CAGE I had very little fear about it, but basically, my straight friends talked me out of it. I think the... GEORGE MICHAEL When I was a kid, I wanted a Chanel bob and bangs. My mom said no. I went to the salon anyway, and t... CAMILA ALVES I was an active little kid and I always listened to exciting music. My dad was into Hendrix. I was i... JOSH MORGAN I felt like I was going to throw up. I just couldn't even see the ball because my eyes were burning ... MICHAELLA KRAJICEK If I somehow felt like having a site which strictly validates was an indication of my manhood, maybe... MIKE DAVIDSON My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a cha... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN When I was a kid, I loved Nicholas brothers films. It was like skateboarding. Even Gene Kelly: I alw... HARMONY KORINE I was just a goofy little funny kid, who was always getting sent to the principal. It wasn't ser... J. COLE I was pretty upset, because, after my team gave me the lead, I wanted to shut them down. Walking the... ISMAEL VALDEZ It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut... NEIL ARMSTRONG I was very shy, but when I performed, I felt like I was in my own little world. I became more confid... OLGA FONDA I just felt a thump from the rear of my car. Ryan was up over me. He was upside down and there was a... ALEX BARRON I'm unbelievably ticklish. When I was a little kid, my sisters would hold me down and tickle me ... RONDA ROUSEY I felt a knot in it. I felt like I was either getting ready to pull it or pulled it a little. If I h... DAVID WESLEY I was acting since I was a kid, going to drama classes and being involved in every school play and m... YVONNE STRAHOVSKI I was lucky. My family is wonderful. And it's funny, because most of my best friends come from v... SOPHIA BUSH I went to work in a woman's home in Los Angeles as a mother's helper. I worked there about t... GEORGIA HOLT My dad used to call me 'the human pretzel' because I was able to bend my body, and because m... ERIN ANDREWS My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was ... AMY TAN I never set out to write a book to change women's lives, to change history. It's like, 'Who, me?' Ye... BETTY FRIEDAN But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very domin... BEATRICE WOOD Well, I'm from Indiana. So to me when I was a little kid growing up, Cincinnati was the glamorou... RYAN MURPHY My mom had very low expectations for me, and she really had a point. I was a big problem at seventee... ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU I was a very, I think, lonely kid, very introspective. I felt very much at odds with my environment ... MAXINE KUMIN I was single for a long time and felt very much alone in the world, and talk of family values upset ... WENDY COPE It just felt like that was our best chance to get things rolling, getting me comfortable, getting me... J.P. LOSMAN I still don't think that my doctors told me exactly how bad it was. They told my wife. They tried to... ERNIE ELS I have a very dear family and very dear friends. They're my rock. These are people who knew me f... MARK RUFFALO I'm afraid I was very much the traditionalist. I went down on one knee and dictated a proposal which... STEPHEN FRY I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me... ZOOEY DESCHANEL Some other schools backed off because I got a little homesick [at New Hampton]. I visited and it was... FREDDY PETKUS You moved my head so that it was lying in your lap. "Keep your eyes open," you said. "Stay wit... LUCY CHRISTOPHER I felt that the biological clock was some myth to keep me from doing what I wanted to do. And so I r... LILI TAYLOR A woman's body never really belongs to herself. As an infant, my body was my mother's, a det... ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN Losing Abby wasn't a story I remembered from early childhood--it was in my face, debilitating me lik... JAMIE MCGUIRE I was like any other kid: very normal, I can say. I just was a simple kid that came from a humble fa... MIGUEL COTTO
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EDWARD DE BONO Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy... EDWARD DE BONO In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in hi... EDWARD DE BONO Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Thosethat focus on value creation wi... EDWARD DE BONO Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic. EDWARD DE BONO Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain EDWARD DE BONO We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a p... EDWARD DE BONO An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing wh... EDWARD DE BONO It is well known that "problem avoidance" is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solvin... EDWARD DE BONO The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas EDWARD DE BONO Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent. EDWARD DE BONO Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it. EDWARD DE BONO It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more ... EDWARD DE BONO One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one... EDWARD DE BONO The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas... EDWARD DE BONO The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model... EDWARD DE BONO Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produc... EDWARD DE BONO A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely not happen. EDWARD DE BONO Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced. EDWARD DE BONO It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually ... EDWARD DE BONO To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapi... EDWARD DE BONO In 80% of Socrates' dialogues there was no constructive outcome. He saw his role as simply pointing ... EDWARD DE BONO I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up wit... EDWARD DE BONO I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acqu... EDWARD DE BONO There's a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that m... EDWARD DE BONO An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an ... EDWARD DE BONO The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. EDWARD DE BONO