Ashley Graham Quotes

I think that some of the biggest surprises I've had early on, actually to this day, are all the misconceptions about my body and my health. There are so many people who think that being a plus-size model, that there's something wrong with it, or that I must be unhealthy or that I'm promoting an unhealthy lifestyle.

Why is it controversial to talk about the fact that fat people deserve to take up space and deserve to be sexy?

All fat women look the same; they all look 42.

Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.

'Curvy' is just a polite way of saying 'fat.'

I like fat people more then I like thin people, things are always a lot more funnier when they happen to fat people.

Everyone has to realize that body-shaming can happen at any size.

Thin people are beautiful, but fat people are adorable.

I am not a member of Fat Liberation, nor do I think that obesity is healthy. But I do believe that in many ways my life has been a more charmed and happy one because I was always large.

Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight.

I sympathize far more with heavier people than I ever will with thin. I'll never be thin. Let's be honest.

I was really tired of words like 'plus size,' 'round' and 'large.' I thought, 'Come on, we're fat.'

I am, uh... a 6 foot tall woman, I feel like I'm a healthy size, I'm not anorexic; and I feel that people who aren't anorexic are punished... for not being anorexic.

Because Melissa McCarthy actually is a fat woman, she isn't allowed to make brash statements about body acceptance. She has to apologize for her body.

I just have a real problem with people who seek to portray fatness or thinness as moral concepts.

Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim.

I think people are way less judgmental about chunky guys.

I think there's a bias against fat people on network television.

I'm so grateful that I model at a time where 'plus-size' models are being championed, but they're still called 'plus-size' which is actually quite a stigma in itself. It's just healthy, curvy women.

There's no pressure on me to be a particular weight. But I loathe being renowned as a 'larger' model. It makes me cringe.

The concept of plus-size is so derogatory and weird. What does that mean? Plus the normal size? It shouldn't exist any more.

So many comics, skinny and fat, make fat jokes.

I'm comfortable with being a voluptuous woman because I'm not going to be a size two and that's ok with me.

Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad; one who gladly admits she reached the size she is now solely through lack of discipline and love of pleasure, and who rather despises people (except those with proven medical conditions) who pretend that it is generally otherwise.

It's okay to be fat. So you're fat. Just be fat and shut up about it.