When you hear the phrase “celebrities—they’re just like us,” it’s usually said with sarcasm.
But here’s the reality: at the end of the day, they’re just people, too. And they have insecurities just like the rest of us. It’s inspiring to see them take that veneer of perfection off and get real with us, tbh.
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Chrissy Teigen
Chrissy isn’t afraid to share her insecurities. She’s embraced her body, but sometimes how other celebrities use social media gets her down , too.
“I know they’re Facetuning, Photoshopping—and even I’m getting down on myself!”
Mila Kunis
Mila Kunis’ insecurity comes from not thinking she has physical appeal .
“I appreciate the attention but I don’t think of myself as particularly attractive at all. I also don’t have that naturally…sensuous way of behaving that some women have.”
Katie Holmes
Thighs are Katie Holmes’ confidence killer.
“I try to embrace my imperfections. But I will forever wage the battle of the thighs! So I prefer not to show them off. I am pretty tall. Usually most actresses are tiny and I’m not – I’m a big one.”
Rihanna
“You’ve just got to laugh at yourself, honestly. I mean, I know when I’m having a fat day and when I’ve lost weight. I accept all of the bodies,” she told Vogue.
“I’m not built like a Victoria’s Secret girl, and I still feel very beautiful and confident in my lingerie.”
Olivia Wilde
I want to cry! Olivia Wilde didn’t think she was enough for Jason Sudekis before she started dating him.
“I thought, ‘He won’t be interested in me; I’m not a contender […] I thought, ‘I’m not beautiful enough or his type.'”
Taylor Swift
Taylor opened up about how badly she’s been bullied for…just about everything, really.
“Every single part of me has been dissected at some point or another by a blog writer or a 14-year-old girl on a comments page who says something really terrible. Or someone in middle school who points out [fakes a mean girl voice], you have little eyes.”
Beyoncé
The part of herself that Beyoncé doesn’t like is completely unexpected: it’s her feet!
“If I could change one part of [my body] it would be my feet. After all the years dancing they’re a little beat up. And I wear big earrings because I don’t like my ears.”
Jessica Biel
Jessica Biel has a very specific insecurity: her legs.
“If I gain any weight it’s always right around my hips, so that area sometimes bugs me, and I wish my legs were longer.”
Megan Fox
At one point in her life, Megan Fox really struggled with body image.
“I’m very confident in how I project my personality. But in terms of how I look, I’m completely, hysterically insecure. I’m self-loathing, introverted and neurotic.”
Jordin Sparks
For her, it’s stretch marks that used to bother her.
“I have stretch marks behind my legs and on my back. I call them my tiger stripes. There’s nothing I can do about them.”
Jessica Alba
When asked how she felt about being a sex symbol, she said: “Every actress out there is more beautiful than me.”
And in regards to her body now? Well, it was actually pretty sweet. “My breasts are saggy, I’ve got cellulite, my hips are bigger, but I love it.”
Michelle Pfeiffer
Michelle Pfeiffer, one of the most talented and renowned actresses of our time, doesn’t like her lips.
“It’s the way that my mouth sort of curls up, or my nose tilts up. I should have played Howard the Duck.”
Hilary Duff
“There’s so much pressure to always have it together, and I’m not falling for it. You see supermodels who have babies, and the next week they look as if they were never pregnant. That was not the case with me.” Hilary Duff said.
Katy Perry
Katy Perry has been very open about her body image—and how fame impacts it.
“I know for me, I’m curvy, I’m not sample size, but I represent a lot of people out there. I want to be relatable. That’s really important to me, while not losing my mind in this weird [expletive] human experiment I’m going through.”
Kristen Stewart
Honestly, there’s no shortage of things that Kristen Stewart doesn’t like about herself.
“I’m uncomfortable about the size of my ears and, I’m sort of lanky.”
We really are our own harshest critics.
Sofia Vergara
Like many of us, Sofia Vergara also struggles with the perception of perfection social media provides.
“It’s like, ‘Oh, I should exercise more. Should I eat less? Should I cook more greens? Should I put more makeup on?’ It’s a lot.”
Cara Delevingne
The reason Cara wanted to quit modeling? She began to hate her entire body.
“It is a mental thing as well because if you hate yourself and your body and the way you look, it just gets worse and worse.”
I truly hope she’s found a way to love herself again.
Kim Kardashian
Kim revealed that she struggles with some pretty severe psoriasis.
While launching her new body makeup, she said: “I’ve learned to live with and not be insecure of my psoriasis, but for days when I want to just cover it up I use this Body Makeup.”
Kristen Chenoweth
Kristen Chenoweth struggles with her belly!
“I’ve always had a tiny pooch in front. Even when I’m at my thinnest, I still have that. I don’t particularly like it, but I’ve learned to say Hey, this is you—accept it.”
Amy Schumer
“I think it’s good to see somebody saying: I have a belly. And I have cellulite. And I still deserve love. And to catch the old D. And to not apologize.” Amy Schumer said at the Glamour U.K. Women of the Year Awards.
Miley Cyrus
Miley’s insecurities stemmed as much from her body as they did from her mind.
“I was made to look like someone that I wasn’t.
Which probably caused some body dysmorphia because I had been made pretty every day for so long, and then when I wasn’t on that show, it was like, ‘Who the [expletive] am I?”
Kendall Jenner
Kendall has shared quite a bit about her acne struggles with the world.
“[…] I was supposed to be this model who has everything together. That’s never the case, first of all — good skin or not. But the whole world is looking at you, and it’s like a magnifying glass on everything that you do and what happens to you.”
Kate Moss
Kate Moss is an incredibly accomplished model, but she has one thing she’d change: her legs.
“So that’s why I own lots of leggings: because they make my legs look longer.”
