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Daily Inspiration Quote by Jenna Ortega

"If you take care of your body, it will take care of you"

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Ortega’s line has the clean, meme-ready snap of wellness advice, but its real power is the bargain it implies: treat your body like a partner in a long negotiation, not a prop you drag through deadlines. Coming from a young actress working inside an image industry, the sentence reads less like a yoga-studio platitude and more like a quiet boundary. It’s a way of saying, I’m not endlessly elastic. The body isn’t a costume rack; it’s the machine that makes the job possible.

The phrasing is intentionally transactional. “Take care” suggests maintenance, not transformation. It sidesteps the usual celebrity pipeline of “discipline” and “grind” and swaps in reciprocity: the body will “take care” of you back. That’s a subtle rebuke to a culture that treats burnout as a status symbol and pain as proof of seriousness. It also reframes self-care away from indulgence and toward competence. Sleep, food, movement, therapy, rest: not moral purity tests, but infrastructure.

The subtext lands in the current moment where young stars are expected to be relentlessly productive while publicly “authentic.” Ortega’s brand has often leaned tough-minded and self-possessed; this quote extends that persona into the physical realm. It’s not preaching thinness or perfection. It’s arguing for durability, agency, and a kind of pragmatic self-respect that’s hard to sell on a red carpet but necessary to survive it.

Quote Details

TopicSelf-Care
SourceJenna Ortega, Teen Vogue interview (June 7, 2018)
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Ortega, Jenna. (2026, January 26). If you take care of your body, it will take care of you. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-you-take-care-of-your-body-it-will-take-care-184393/

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Ortega, Jenna. "If you take care of your body, it will take care of you." FixQuotes. January 26, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-you-take-care-of-your-body-it-will-take-care-184393/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"If you take care of your body, it will take care of you." FixQuotes, 26 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-you-take-care-of-your-body-it-will-take-care-184393/. Accessed 24 Feb. 2026.

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Jenna Ortega

Jenna Ortega (born September 27, 2002) is a Actress from USA.

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