If actors can show their abs, why can't women show their bikini bods?

I feel really comfortable and cute in bikini bottoms that have thick sides.

I thought, If I'm so afraid of a bikini, there's something wrong. And so I had to get back into one!

I think my first bikini, I was four and it was polka dotted and I had a big belly and I looked dashing.

I don't prepare for wearing a bikini; I always have a bit of a tummy.

In the days before I had kids I used to take six books with me for a fortnight's holiday. My suitcase used to be full of big trashy novels, maybe a bikini and some flip-flops. It was all I needed.

Since I wore a bikini at the Miss India pageant, I have no inhibitions wearing it on screen.

I have cellulite. I admit it. But sometimes I just say, 'Screw it, I am going to wear a bikini.'

If I have to get into a bikini, then I eat carrot sticks for three days.

I'm very self conscious in a bikini, and I would never get my tummy out onstage.

I got roles from good production houses, though I wasn't keen on them, as I was asked to - and I won't - wear a bikini in a film. I'm not conservative, as I'd wear it on holidays, but definitely not in front of the camera. I have to think of my family.

The original way to play beach volleyball was in a bikini and board shorts, and I don't know what else they want us to wear.

I used to be a workout fiend and I was so unhappy because I wanted to eat what I wanted to eat. So now if I know I have to be in a bikini, I'll obviously watch what I eat for a week.

I have no problems exposing to any extent. However when I gave my first bikini shot, it was quite tough facing the public out there.

I don't think I need to wear a bikini to attract the audience. I will not do that.

The sight of the first woman in the minimal two-piece was as explosive as the detonation of the atomic bomb by the U.S. at Bikini Island in the Marshall Isles, hence the naming of the bikini.

I did not want the audience to have the perception that I wore a bikini on screen.

Luv Ranjan does not believe in bikini bodies. Therefore, he always insists that we look like relatable characters onscreen.

I never looked good in a bikini. My legs were too thin.