Top 108 Quotes & Sayings by Denise Bidot

My daughter is going to get to grow up in a world where she never sees herself being an outcast or feeling like she doesn't fit in.

As a single mom, I want to say that having a child does not have to be a setback. You can still reach your dreams and teach your kids to reach for their dreams.

I'm a Miami girl so I really love to be sassy and get dressed up.

I think for a while magazines were using celebrities and it's really coming back to the age of the supermodel and models having a name and having a voice and it's refreshing.

I always say there's no wrong way to be a woman.

Being you is what defines real beauty.

As a very curvy woman, jeans are always a hard find.

My body is not meant to small. I think even when I was at my fittest at 13 and 14 years old when I was dancing all the time and I was really active and constantly doing things, I was no smaller than an 8 and I was working my butt off for that.

As a mother, I think it's so important to change the perception of beauty.

I'm not 6-feet tall and I'm not a size 2, so I never thought there would be an industry for me to fit into.

Nothing like stopping at Balthazar in between NYFW madness. Their shrimp cocktail is delicious and healthy.

I'm just a woman. I'm a curvy woman, and hopefully some day they do end up cutting out the word 'plus-size.'

Often in life, you get thrown curveballs and how you handle them and how you bounce back from them will define who you are.

I love everything about my body. Every bit of it... the cellulite, the stretch marks, everything that I thought at one point was an imperfection, I now realize is everything that makes me unique.

Representation is so important for all of us, especially millennials and the next generation.

I actually moved to L.A. in 2005, and I wanted to be an actress.

The biggest piece of advice I can give to other Latinas is to be confident, strong, and secure in who you are.

When you have a group of women who are happy and support each other, then you have a group of women who can take over the world.

I've always been a real stubborn Latina. I'm a Gemini.

I'm constantly shopping; I'm not going to lie.

It's a refreshing moment to find a pair of jeans that just fit my curves perfectly and keep their shape - I hate when they start getting baggy at the knees.

A lot of girls get caught up looking at what other people are doing. You've just got to stay in your lane. You've just got to go forward and know that whatever is meant for you is going to come your way.

When I started, fashion for curvy women was very ugly.

When you're a curvy girl, it can be hard to find a suit that fits perfectly in all the right places, but Target definitely has accomplished that with their swimwear.

Body positivity is not just an issue for larger women, and I think that's important to acknowledge. It's about including everyone, whether you're transgender, or LGBTQ, it's really about embracing every person's uniqueness.

I love my curves. I love my waist. My hips. I feel like so much of it is who I am, so I love it all.

It's in my nature to want every image of me to be authentic but at the end of the day as a model, I don't always get control over how someone decides to put forth my picture.

I stand firmly to the fact that you shouldn't have to change who you are to fit into any beauty standards or to be recognized in your job or to move forward in life. You should just be yourself.

I think if they did go ahead and include a plus-sized angel, I think it would be such a huge statement from Victoria's Secret especially cause for so long, as a curvy woman, I haven't been able to shop there, able to fit in a lot of their stuff.

When the clothes change, the women change. They start feeling more confident and then all of a sudden, people start seeing them differently.

I did makeup for a plus-size model a month after I officially quit acting. It was just fate. The photographer was like, 'Have you ever thought of modeling?' It may have been the one thing I never thought was possible for me.

I'm a big believer in Spanx. I live in them.

Once you find that perfect suit that fits just right, it will give you an extra boost of confidence that will make your pool or beach day even better.

I don't care what you call me. I'm glad to even have a place in this fashion industry. Plus-size, straight-size, in-betweenie - I don't care regardless.

I'm Latina and Middle Eastern. Not a lot of people look like me, and I want to embrace all ethnic cultures and make them feel like they're included.

My mom was a single mom and I'm an only child, so growing up it was really just me and her against the world.

If I feel good, I look my best.

There is something about dancing that just makes me feel alive, and it's an amazing workout.

Nowhere have I felt so much awesome responsibility than when teaching my daughter that there is no wrong way to be herself - to be a young woman, whatever her size.

Sometimes life guides you on a path so that you can find yourself.

Very early on I knew I wanted to be in entertainment.

Plus-size girls are now doing beauty campaigns and hair campaigns and so many different things that for so long we fought for and wanted.

I didn't know how, I didn't know when, but I wanted to act. I wanted to be in films.

Skin care is one of the most important things for the body and feeling good.

I was raised to believe that sex was for marriage.

I feel sexy all the time. I feel like sexiness is in my blood.

Those old '90s models when women were just themselves and they were real and they were embraced that way - I think we should get back to that.

My daughter is 8 years old, and just recently she came to me and said a girl called her fat. And I couldn't imagine that was going on in second grade. It just blows my mind that kids are already being influenced by the media and using words this way.

I grew up in a generation where I really had no one to admire and say, 'Oh, that looks like me and she's successful and she's smart.'

I'm from Miami, and when I was 18, I packed a suitcase and left for L.A. permanently to try and make it as an actor.

Nobody is perfect. So for designers then to be taking chances on curvy women and not saying, 'Oh, you have to be this size to model for us' is really opening the door.

What has helped me the most to navigate the business side of the modeling world was having open conversations with colleagues. When I first started out, I asked other models about compensation and started learning more about the business and uncovering the truth. Having these open dialogues helped me understand more about the business side.

I'm a woman - I'd be lying if I said I didn't have insecurities.

I once saw JLo's 'Behind the Music' special, and she said she may not get every role she auditions for but her goal is to make every single person a fan. That stuck with me, and I want to do that every time I see a client.

I think that there are a lot of beautiful girls out there in our industry who are really taking a stand and being advocates for happiness and size diversity, and so the consumers are also very vocal.

You can be curvy and still be absolutely flawless.

There shouldn't be one size when it comes to runway models.

I knew in my soul that girls like me needed to be represented.

You're beautiful and you should feel good in your skin, and nobody should tell you otherwise.

Seeing my mother struggle with her weight confused me: I looked at her and thought she was beautiful, she was my mom. And this woman, who I looked up to everyday, couldn't see her own beauty?