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Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body image issues are an aspect of their lives which is causing them low self esteem and day-to-day suffering.

Yeah, I try to be the best example I can be for young girls just as far as my person goes - just to uphold a good image.

Body image is something that girls struggle with every day, and it's something that I struggle with every day.

I appreciate that young girls look up to me. And I take that very seriously.

I'm so glad teenagers can look up to young girls and realize it's okay to be voluptuous.

I think I was lucky in that I wasn't one of those girls who are told they are pretty the whole time. I never got that. Nor did I ever obsess about my looks as a teenager.

I'm actually just playing honest, whole young women.

I prefer girls who are young.

I want to tell girls, it's not about make-up and how you look that's important; you are so much more than how you look.

I'm learning to accept everything that I am. I've accepted that I'm not going to be a stick-thin-model kind of girl. When I was 14, I was tall and spindly. By the time I turned 18, I had become a woman, and my body's not going to go back to what it looked like when I was 14.