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What the body-positive movement wants is to stop categorizing people, and to let people of all body types be able to do anything, whether they're slightly bigger than the average model or a lot bigger.
Barbie Ferreira -
The way I move, the way I think, the way I handle myself - it might be by accident, but it's who I am, and I've just learned to own that.
Barbie Ferreira
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I used to diet all the time as a kid. I started dieting in, like, kindergarten. I don't recommend it, but I also don't judge people who want to do things with their body.
Barbie Ferreira -
Social media opened up basically every opportunity for me because, traditionally, I wouldn't be thought of as a model.
Barbie Ferreira -
Don't focus on your body. Love it, but know it'll never be up to society's standards because it's all Photoshop and exclusivity. And that's okay!
Barbie Ferreira -
I rarely got retouched when I started modeling, and it was crucial to me to show an accurate, realistic picture of me because that's beautiful, too.
Barbie Ferreira -
I'm not overweight. I have and will always eat to nourish my body, and I work out.
Barbie Ferreira -
I used to have a recurring black-and-white dream where I would drive in on a hover car and raid the shoe closets of this huge mansion. I don't know what that means at all, to be honest.
Barbie Ferreira
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Definitely, when anyone asks me what I eat - I think that's the most disrespectful thing. There's no winning with that question.
Barbie Ferreira -
As a child, I was so deeply insecure.
Barbie Ferreira -
Acceptance is being able to feel beautiful in whatever you feel comfortable in.
Barbie Ferreira -
Curvy and plus-size models will just be models once it becomes more normalized and we get more representation and people are used to it and not shocked by it.
Barbie Ferreira -
I never saw anyone my size in magazines when I was younger.
Barbie Ferreira