Lauren Alaina Quotes

As a 15, 16-year-old girl, someone messaging you on Facebook and telling you you're fat is devastating. It's still devastating when someone says something horrible about me, but I love myself so much more as a person.

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• I took some of the hardest things about my life and wrote an empowering song with it. It has made me want to always write from that place.

  

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• I don't mind if people say I was on 'American Idol,' because I was, and that is a part of my past, and I'm super proud of it, but I don't want that to be all there is to me.

  

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• I would see these people calling me 'fat' and calling me horrible names. And this one page called me 'Miss Piggy,' and they only referred to me as 'Miss Piggy.' I was a 16-year-old girl. I did not know how to deal with that, and I was already insecure about my weight.

  

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• I'm a huge country music fan, and there are so many girls that I look up to, especially Carrie Underwood, which everyone knows because I've shouted it out for a while now.

  

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• I had five singles that did not work on country radio, and I still had fans that showed up to the shows.

  

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• Before I go to bed, I thank God for blessing me with all the things he blessed me with, and for my family to be safe.

  

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• I'm still learning to love myself.

  

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• I'm a goofball, and I have this huge personality, and I used to try to hide that. I used to try to kind of dim my light.

  

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  • Light
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• I live country songs every single day of my life, so thank goodness I decided that was my passion!

  

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• I want to make people feel good about who they are regardless of who they are or where they come from or the color of their skin or what their family acts like or what they look like. I am all about acceptance of others and of yourself.

  

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• To see your dad cry is like - It's different than to see your mom cry, you know?

  

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• Shania Twain and Martina McBride and all these wonderful women were saying that it's awesome to be a woman, and it's awesome to be a confident woman. Obviously, I could never compare myself to them, and I want to be my own thing, but I think that message is what I want to say as an artist.

  

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• I'm not fake, and I don't want to mislead people about who I am. I can be serious, too, and I cry a lot. It's just who I am.

  

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• I meal prep when I'm traveling and make sure to have three solid, high-protein and low-carb meals a day with a few snacks in between. But I try not to be too hard on myself. At the end of the day, it's all about having a healthy balance.

  

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• My first kiss was in 7th grade. It grossed me out. I kind of freaked out!

  

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• I don't take myself too seriously, or I at least try not to, and I want to encourage other people to live that way because it's a much better way to go about your life.

  

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• I really, really look up to Carrie Underwood a lot because she came from a small town that has the same population as mine - 3,500 people.

  

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• I love performing with a band way more than a track, just because it gets a whole new kind of vibe going and gets the energy up. You actually get to play off of the other people that are around you.

  

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• When I started working all the time, I started eating the right food that will help me have my energy up and stay healthy.

  

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• We all have our things that we go through, and I wanted to be an artist that people could listen to and feel like they're not alone. I want to be empowering.

  

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  • People
  • Alone
  • Empowering

• My favorite type of music to sing is a crossover between country and pop.

  

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  • Music
  • Country

• My mom married a family friend, and my dad married someone that's eight years older than me, so it was just like, these - like, I literally live a country song, so I had to write one.

  

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  • Country
  • Family

• I had really bad polyps on my vocal cords, and I've had them since I was a kid, but the bulimia made it 10 times worse. They were bleeding constantly, and it was straining on my voice. And just the lack of nutrition - my vocal cords couldn't keep up because I was so unhealthy.

  

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• I write about what's on my mind. It's like a stress reliever.

  

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