Category: Self Worth & Esteem

Zoe Kravitz

ZOE KRAVITZ

“The fact that people don’t think what they say affects a celebrity because you’re not a person to them is crazy. I’m a human being. I want to f***ing defend myself. The fact that I’m like, ‘Should I have not worn that?’ No, I do what I want to do, and I make what I want to make, and if I’m now starting to be afraid of what other people are going to say or think, I’m no longer doing my job as an artist. I’m not experiencing the world and putting that into art. I’m walking on eggshells. F*** that. So, I needed to take a minute” ELLE 

Winona Ryder

WINONA RYDER

“I remember I was playing this character who ends up getting tortured in a Chilean prison in the 1994 drama The House of Spirits. I would look at these fake bruises and cuts on my face from the shoot, and I would struggle to see myself as this little girl. ‘Would you be treating this girl like you’re treating yourself?’ I remember looking at myself and saying, ‘This is what I’m doing to myself inside.’ Because I just wasn’t taking care of myself.”  BAZAAR

Michael J. Fox

MICHAEL J. FOX
“Optimism is really rooted in gratitude. Optimism is sustainable when you keep coming back to gratitude, and what follows from that is acceptance. Accepting that this has happened, and you accept it for what it is. It doesn’t mean that you can’t endeavor to change. It doesn’t mean you have to accept it as a punishment or a penance, but just put it in its proper place. Then see how much the rest of your life you have to thrive in, and then you can move on.” People Magazine

Cara Delevingne

CARA DELEVINGNE
“I’m classically good at avoiding things, I just didn’t want to deal with my issues. And those are the things I’ve been running from since I was a kid. I’d only learned to show emotion when I was acting because I didn’t feel worthy enough to feel those things as myself.

I have so many friends. They ride for me and I love my friends so much, but it felt like a lot of the time, they were shallow relationships only because I wasn’t able to be honest about the things I was going through. I didn’t want to burden anyone. It was also like, ‘What if people leave? If you any of my friends, they would say they’d never seen me cry. And my old friends, the ones I’ve known since I was 13, they all came over and we started crying. They looked at me and, You deserve a chance to have joy.”

Before I was always into the quick fix of healing, going to a week-long retreat or a course for trauma, say, and that helped for a minute, but it didn’t ever really get to the nitty-gritty, the deeper stuff. This time I realized that 12-step treatment was the best thing, and it was about not being ashamed of that. The community made a huge difference. The opposite of addiction is connection, and I really found that in 12-Step.” Vogue

Miranda Lambert

MIRANDA LAMBERT

“Finding happiness and being at peace with yourself, it’s a long journey, but I’ve really gotten to a great place. I’m my best self in cutoffs at the farm with no makeup. All I want to do is dream, live in the moment and spend time doing things I love with my friends and family. Going through hard things obviously makes you get to know yourself better. When you get broken down pretty good, you look at the mirror and you go, ‘I have to spend some time with me, learn who I am and what I want.’ I got to a really good place with myself. Then I met my husband. Without the hard stuff the chaos, the crazy schedule, the heartbreak, the falling in love, the falling out of love. I wouldn’t be who I am. I’m thankful for the lessons, even though they hurt at the time.” People Magazine

Sarah Ferguson

SARAH FERGUSON

“When you feel bad about yourself, go and give to others, I feel really strongly that this is a big moment to say ‘Nobody is alone.’ ‘Then you anchor yourself. I felt really strange this morning. I was out of control in my head. I was tired The first thing is to be really honest: ‘How do I feel right this second?’ Once you work out how you feel, you realize you must shine light on it. Then you anchor yourself. So I went and did an hour of step-ups. Just on the staircase. I didn’t go to the gym. I didn’t put on my leotard. And I watch Little House on the Prairie for the escapism. I got my heartbeat going. Then I rang a friend. Then the next thing is to realize that everyone else has insecurities too.”  People

Annabelle Wallis

ANNABELLE WALLIS

“Living in a foreign country taught me as an adult to ask questions and be inquisitive about why I feel like I don’t fit in, and where should I fit in? Where do I want to be? It gave me a sense of needing to find my place and figure out who I was. I guess I learned to anchor myself in my personality and the essence of who I was, rather than attaching myself to an external structure. I was always quite shy growing up. I remember choosing clothes and then second-guessing myself, saying ‘Oh no, it’s too this or it’s too that or it’s too sexy, or you’re not giving off the right impression.’ And I realized that for a long time, I was using fashion to hide aspects of myself, and now I don’t care. I want to express myself in the way I want to express myself. I always thought you had to have one style, and I could never do that. One minute I was a tomboy, then I was super elegant, everyday was different. And now I fully embrace that I enjoy fashion much more.” ELLE