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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.

My mother carried me for 10 months. I asked her 'Mother, you had an extra month, why you didn't make me a beautiful face?' and mother told me, 'My son, I was busy making your beautiful hands and heart.'

I find it funny that people now come up to me and say, 'Wow, you are absolutely gorgeous. I'm like, 'I was beautiful before I lost weight. Egotistically speaking, I thought I was amazing.'

My mother is a beauty.

When I grew older and awkward, when my parents divorced and life had gone all to hell, Demetrie stood me at the wardrobe mirror and told me over and over, 'You are beautiful. You are smart. You are important.' It was an incredible gift to give a child who thinks nothing of herself.

My mama told me in college, 'I love you, and you're God's child, but natural beauty will only take you so far.'

Even my mother told me: 'You are a handsome woman, but you're not pretty. Pretty girls don't have those big bones.'

My mum never told me that I was beautiful when I was a kid - and I didn't read magazines or watch MTV, so I had no real consciousness about it all.

It's an amazing thing to say, 'I'm beautiful,' without feeling like you're cocky.