Geri Halliwell Quotes

I was so afraid of upsetting people, and not being liked for saying something that was not to everyone‘s taste.

We are obsessed with image. I don’t think we should take it that seriously.

A lot of people have said that I’ve got a voice that speaks to children. I think I’ve got a natural naivety to me. I’m childish.

I think I’ve really learned how important it is to empower women.

I’m so supported, and I’m so privileged. So many women today are single parents; I don’t feel different. I think you get out of life what you put into it… and Bluebell was a beautiful accident. I feel blessed to have her. I’m learning every day as a mother.

I have never sung a whole song on my own before and I am not the best dancer in the world, but I would rather try and fall than not not try at all.

I’ve been all sorts of different shapes and sizes at different times in my life.

I don’t know what I’m doing, but I’m damn well gonna do it!

It’s really important to remember that most people in the public eye are human for a start and a lot of things that you read in the media get slightly misconstrued and manipulated.

I love being on the beach – it’s my favourite place. I can chill out, read, listen to music, play with my daughter.

I just feel that the only power I have is setting a good example.

‘Spice Girls‘ is about unifying the world – every age, every gender, everyone. It’s woman power, it’s an essence, a tribe.

Someone taught me how to eat properly. Learning from others is important when it’s not working for yourself.

On the beach, we women are at our most exposed and therefore most vulnerable. As any woman deserves to look and feel good, especially when she‘s away on holiday, she needs swimwear that pays proper attention to comfort and function. And there should also be some thought put into value.

I think it’s unnecessary to be mean for the sake of being mean, but I do believe you have to be truthful, but with love.

I obviously want to give a healthy body image to my own daughter. I think having good examples, eating properly, that’s all one can do – and just be really loving around her. I’ve tried to give her confidence in who she is. I think she’s all right in the confidence department.

The thing is, when I feel like I have to lose weight, the opposite happens. I remember stuffing loads of chocolate on the plane to the shoot, and I thought, ‘Why don’t you have the courage to show up in a body that’s natural, not overly worked out?’

I’d never choose to turn the clock back.

It is a blessing to have pretty people around me. I like people who are sparky, positive. Evil, dark people are repelled by me: ‘Oooh no! Too much sunlight.’

Some people are naturally thin and some people are naturally heavier. It doesn’t mean that bigger is healthier, or much thinner is healthier, it’s on an individual basis.

Obviously Victoria and Mel B have become mothers and there is a part of me that wants to be a mum.

I’ve learnt that if I tell myself I’m not allowed something, I binge on it later. So if I want chocolate, I have chocolate. If I want biscuits, I have biscuits. I love cake. I just love cake.

I’ve always made my own clothes since I was a little girl. I was a terrible sewer, but I was always cutting and customising.

If people choose to engage on a one-dimensional level that’s fine. But going beyond the surface can enrich ourselves as human beings.

I have got one of those faces that change every day: you can dress me up, make me look vampy and then make me look 12 years old. But don’t all women do this thing? We all take on these roles.

There will always be a few people who just want to knock you down or are jealous or just want to be horrible for the sake of it. I don’t know what drives someone to be nasty.

I’ve got an image of me at the bottom of my garden sitting under my silver birch tree reading, while everyone else had gone somewhere exotic.

I won‘t mention the word tired. This is the 20th century and I can go around a little faster.

Becoming a solo singer is like going from an eau de toilette to a perfume. It’s much more intense.

I love Australian people.

I’m done with trying to be perfect. A perfect body belongs to somebody else – and it’s not me.

There’s always going to be that pressure when you’re in front of the camera. When you’re famous it’s just an extreme version of reality and there’s a pressure to look a certain way.

I want to communicate through my music. If you want to know Geri Halliwell listen to my album: it tells you more about me than a documentary ever could.

Being mean about other people isn’t on my radar.

Perfectionism kills art. I find that if I criticise myself, it spoils the fun. You can get paralysed by analysis – it takes all the playfulness away.