Will Davis
Will Davis
growing attractive wanted
All I wanted, to be petite and attractive. I was afraid I'd never stop growing.
girl teaching adventure
The fictitious worlds created for kids are nearly bereft of female presence. It's sending a very clear message from the beginning that women and girls do not have half of the adventures, that they're not as important. We're teaching kids that girls and women don't take up half the space in the world.
self trying want
I used to be very unathletic. I was always so gangly and self-conscious about my height. I had convinced myself I was uncoordinated. And as a result, I didn't want to try stuff.
kids space world
I was tall from minute one. Always the tallest kid by a large margin. And my fantasy was to take up less space in the world.
body stuff lingerie
I remember very distinctly being so tall I didn't fit sleeves, so I ended up modeling lingerie and bathing suits, sleeveless stuff, basically. I didn't have a good body, but I believed I knew how to stand or pose to mask it.
new-york couple thinking
I had a pretty poor self-image for a long time. I broke into acting as a model in New York. I was never anything like a "supermodel," but I made a living at it for a couple years. The thing was, I was convinced that I was tricking everyone into thinking I was attractive.
girl kids thinking
My theory of everything is that we are training kids to have gender bias against girls, therefore when you are an adult, you don't see it. We think it's normal.
children important problem
The most important thing is to change what children see from the beginning. To not create a problem we have to fix later.
party social persons
I'm so not a party person. I'm so not social and don't go to parties.
powerful character president
I was lucky enough to be in some movies where I had powerful characters or I got to be the president on TV for a little while. Very short administration.
class culture citizens
Women are in many ways second-class citizens in the United States in 2016, because of the way that we're portrayed in popular culture.
thinking female culture
It's partly because our culture so hyper-sexualizes females that if you don't measure up to whatever we're forced to think is the standard, then you feel inadequate.
self-esteem missing littles
When I was a model, actually, for a little while, my friend that I worked with a lot, she had horrible self-esteem too. We decided that the exact moment when we actually thought we were attractive, we wouldn't be any more. We would just, like, miss it.
self-esteem fake looks
I had very, very bad self-esteem - that I was a fake, everybody was going to find out, that I didn't deserve to have success, just about my looks and really, really bad self esteem.