While gung-ho self-acceptance is the ultimate goal (you know, the kind that lets you leave the house in no makeup and sweats and not think twice), actress and show creator Mindy Kaling of "The Mindy Project" shows us that it's normal to have insecurities.

"There's a whole list of things I would probably change about myself," she told Vogue. "For example, I'm always trying to lose 15 pounds. But I never need to be skinny. I don't want to be skinny. I'm constantly in a state of self-improvement, but I don't beat myself up over it."

The genius of Kaling's attitude is that "it offers us a model of a woman who likes to look good, and wouldn't mind losing a little weight, but doesn't base her self-worth on it," Elissa Strauss wrote in The Week. It gives us an example of someone who may not think she's always #flawless, but can still wear cute shoes and kick ass professionally.

Photograph courtesy of Boston Magazine

On the other end of the spectrum lives comedy scene-stealer Rebel Wilson, who is completely willing to look ridiculous and own it. Recently, she has started making an effort to help other women build the same confidence.

This year, Wilson collaborated with trendy plus-size retailer Torrid to create a capsule collection, launching in November 2016, intended to give women of all sizes every reason to feel as fly as she does.

Photograph courtesy of The Australian Women's Weekly

Since emerging from treatment for an eating disorder in 2011, Demi Lovato has become one of the most public examples of recovery and self-acceptance. She told People Magazine that her struggle with body image coincided with a "time in the tabloids when very, very skinny girls were on the cover of every magazine, and that's what I was looking up to.... I don't want that for young girls to idolize."

Now, Lovato uses her platform to spread awareness and support for young eating disorder sufferers. She also uses social media to promote images of her strong, healthy lifestyle. Be sure to check out her #NoMakeupMonday and fierce fitspiration posts on Instagram @ddlovato.

Photograph courtesy of Cosmopolitan.com

Lena Dunham is well known for bearing her stark-naked frame on HBO. Though it's come with controversy, the nudity on her show "Girls" has also engendered a much-needed conversation about the female bodies we're used to seeing on television.

"I am comforted by the fact that I find a real range of female bodies beautiful, and I hope that other people do, too," Dunham told Gawker. "And even if they don't find it beautiful I hope they're just glad that something like it is happening on TV."

Dunham has written candidly about her off-screen relationship with her body, both in her book and on social media. She provides the type of unique female presence that challenges us to rethink -- and reprioritize -- our ideas of beauty.

Photograph courtesy of Elle.com

In the 14 years that Kelly Clarkson has been famous (yeah, we can't believe it either), she has transformed from a wide-eyed 20-year-old to a self-possessed career woman and mother. Like any normal, childbearing human, Clarkson's weight has fluctuated over the years -- but it seems to bother her far less than it does the media.

"I don't obsess about my weight, which is probably one of the reasons why other people have such a problem with it," Clarkson said in Redbook.

Clarkson genuinely doesn't sweat over the number on her scale, and she's able to talk about her weight with a rare sense of humor. "We are who we are -- whatever size," she went on to tell Ellen Degeneres. "And it doesn't mean that we're gonna be that forever.... I'm such a creative person that I yo-yo. Sometimes I'm more fit and I get into kickboxing hardcore. And then sometimes I don't, and I'm like ... I'd rather have wine."

We feel you, girl.

Photograph courtesy of RCA Records