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Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.

I don't want to be about the way I look - my body, my hair, my makeup, all those boring things.

I like my body. I don't want to have to change it for anything - even if that means I have to take a step down as a dancer. I don't think I'm ever going to sacrifice my figure for anyone else to accept me.

There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.

I'm under no illusion that there are things about me that I'd like to change. I just accept who I am, and I'm proud of it.

I feel empowered the fact that I can look the way that I do on stage and in photos - I can look that way any time I want. And I feel like it's important message to other women that they can do it, too.

Of course I want to look nice and have a good appearance, but more than the outer shell, I want people to want to be around me for my heart.

I don't get self-conscious. I'm not vain in that way.

I don't believe in doing things to manufacture my body to appeal to what I think people might like.

The way I choose to dress, I want to influence other people around me, I suppose.