Alicia Machado

“He called me 'Miss Piggy.' He called me 'Miss Housekeeping.'”

“I'm not a saint, I'm not a virgin, I'm not a queen, I'm a woman.”

“He was very aggressive. He was really rude. He was a bad person with me.”

“I know what I can do. I am a woman. And I can do everything.”

“I was sick, anorexia and bulimia for five years. I was 18, my personality was not created yet, I was just a girl.”

“Over the past 20 years, I've been in a lot of therapy. That's what I've done to be able to survive.”

“I have my past. Of course, everybody has a past. I'm not a perfect girl. But this is not the point now.”

“For sure he is not a good person.”

“It's a really great moment in the Latin community in this country. I'm so proud and I'm so happy to be a new American citizen.”

“You know, when you are a little girl, your dream is to be a princess. I was a princess.”

“For me, beauty is not a physical thing. Beauty is a state of mind. It's an attitude.”