Diane Ruggiero Quotes

When I walk through an airport and people go, 'You're not fat!' I'm like, 'Thanks. That's great. Good to know I'm not fat today! Thank you!'

I know I'm fat and I know my hair is straight, but I can sing.

I find that a lot of women respond to my work in that it doesn't make them feel bad about themselves.

If you say you're fat, all of a sudden people like you!

I never looked at myself as the fat sister. Sometimes I would beat people to the punch and say, 'Oh I'm the fat, funny one,' because that's what people would say about me. But I never really thought that.

Modeling and pageants help me overcome feeling insecure about the way that I look and my height.

I am toothy, dumpy, ugly, overweight, a spinster - what the hell?

What you look like doesn't matter as much as what you feel like. If you feel you look good, you look good. And I never felt that.

People told me that I was the best-looking girl in my college. But it was only after I won a beauty pageant in 2002 that I became confident.

There's not one person that I say I want to look like.

I don't know what it is about me, but I don't think of myself as sexy; I never have.

I've never seen myself as sexy. I see myself as a goofball.

I've always been a big guy, whether it's been a fat kid, a fat young adult, or a fat adult. I was always sort of... I guess the term would be 'popular.' I never dealt with a lot of name-calling or any of the bullying you'd think a fat kid might have to deal with.

When I was a kid, nobody told me I was good-looking. I wish they had. I would've had a better time.

I'm not bothered by my appearance.

I think of myself as a fairly attractive girl and always have, thanks to my mom. I was brought into this world thinking I was gorgeous because my mother was extremely devoted to this notion.

I'm not a beautiful person and I never have been.

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.

I can only speak for myself - I don't care how I look.

Nobody thinks of themselves as sexy, really. Some days you go, 'Hey, I'm not going too bad today.' But if you try and be sexy, you'll never be sexy.

If wearing the Spanx helps you get looks, and you feel that energy and response, and you're rocking your body with confidence, that's still how you'll feel about yourself when you get home and take the Spanx off... If your attitude improves from the Spanx, wear the Spanx!

I've never disliked myself, and my weight has had nothing to do with my self-esteem.

If other people think I'm okay looking, that's great, but I don't see it myself. When I look in the mirror, all I see is a bunch of fake teeth and football scars.

I call myself a FFP: former fat person, and when you're an FFP, you will always see in yourself what people used to bully you for.

There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.