"Comparing myself to how I look, when I've gone through all of that makeup and styling, in my normal life is... just... I can't live up to it," Watson told Esquire. "I was like, 'Holy shit! If that's how I feel -- and I get to be the person who's on the cover of those magazines -- how's anyone else meant to cope?'"
"I used to think that confidence came from what other people thought about me, and boys and everything else. But now I realize that confidence comes from what I feel about myself and reassuring myself that I can do whatever I want and be whoever I want," Lovato revealed to Seventeen magazine.
"Growing up as a black girl in a society that traditionally values white European features, I really was down on myself as a kid," Williams wrote in Allure. "You know in the old Barbie advertisements they would play with the white Barbie first? And the black girls played with the black Barbie. And in the final shot, it would be the white Barbie with the black Barbie behind her. I picked up on those subtle things, and unfortunately I internalized them."
"Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. Absolutely not," Winslet told Marie Claire in an interview, where she also recounted being called "Blubber" by bullies as a child.
"Somebody was asking 'How do you stay confident?' and I actually really faked it. I faked it all the time -- not all the time, but I fake it a lot of times," the style blogger opened up to her fans in a video. "I don't feel confident and I don't feel happy at all. I feel so sad inside and sometimes I feel so sad and so broke inside, especially lately."
