LILIA BUCKINGHAM
“Don’t put too much pressure on yourself to fit a label, and don’t be afraid of where your heart is going to take you. Wherever it goes, it’s valid. Whenever I felt like my anxiety was never going to go away, my therapist always told me, ‘It’s bad now, but it’ll be better then.’ Now, whenever I’m sad or anxious, I remember all the times when I thought it was going to last forever, and then all the lovely times I’ve had since.” GL
PRIYANKA CHOPRA
“Confidence is not something I was born with. When I started doing beauty pageants at 17 years old, I had such low self-esteem. For me, glamour is doing the things that make you feel like the best version of yourself. It’s one of the reasons I got involved in Obagi’s Skinclusion campaign, which aims to shift people’s biases about beauty standards and bring more inclusivity to the beauty industry.” InSTYLE
ARIANA DeBOSE
“Young people need to know that their dreams are possible. If you squelch a young person’s creativity, you’ve done them a great disservice. I think children really just need to be told that there’s nothing wrong with them, and that they do need their creativity. Their imagination is what’s going to save them. Quite frankly, it’s what’s going to save us. So don’t let anybody tell you that your imagination is not worthy of manifesting.” People
LUCY HALE
“Feeling like I have to please so many people made me hate myself. I can’t live my life wondering what people think of me. I hope people like me, of course. And I hope people relate to what I’m saying, but if they don’t, that’s not my problem. The way you talk to yourself is the most important thing.” People
ANT ANSTEAD
“Nobody controls me but me. It’s up to me to empower myself and realize how incredibly worthy I am of healing.” People
CHLOE BAILEY
“Anytime something doesn’t work out, it’s not really healthy to say, ‘I was the reason it messed up.’ I’m still learning that. I’m learning that your happiness, you can’t put on someone else. The divine plan is always better than whatever I could ever come up with. And it always ends up working out the best. I’ve realized the things that matter to me are my happiness, my family, being around people I love and keeping my spirit clean with their positive energy. As long as I have that, no matter what happens, I am gucci, I am good.” Cosmopolitan
SAWEETIE
“I’ve worked hard on my craft, my self-esteem, and my self-love. I’m proud of myself, and hopefully, my journey inspires other woman to chase their dreams.” InSTYLE
SOLEIL CROW
“Growing up, I was self-conscious about my freckles and my body since I was teased about them in the last year, I’ve really come into my own. You don’t have to be a certain size or look a certain way to be considered beautiful.” InSTYLE
“I’m always myself. I’m in the space I’m in right now because I was just always unapologetically myself.” -InSTYLE
“With age, you figure out that life is too short to waste time thinking about what other people think about you.” -People