Erma Bombeck Quotes

I was bulimic and anorexic for a while, just hating my body. As an actress, I was never thin enough, never pretty enough. My boobs weren't big enough.

I hope I look skinnier in 3D. I hope I don't look three times as fat. That'll be disappointing.

I have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them.

When I first went to visit different agencies in New York, a lot of them were like, 'You have to lose a lot of weight.'

I have obsessed about my weight in some sort of way all my life. I used to write in my journal what I weighed every day.

You're either too fat or too thin. You just can't win.

I don't think it's good to constantly talk about your own weight and the fact that you look fat in jeans.

As a teenager, my favourite rejection was, 'She looks too healthy,' which of course translates as, 'She needs to lose weight.'

I don't think just being skinny means necessarily anorexic.

Being too thin. Being bigger. I've been criticized for being on both sides of the scale.

I know the pain of somebody who's too thin and the pain of somebody that people say is too big.

I don't really know why I'm not thinner than I am.

I was muscular - I was never overweight. But tell a girl that she has to lose 15 pounds when she's not fat, and that has destroyed a lot of who I am over the years, even still. In my mind I'm thinking, 'I'm always too heavy. I should be a skinny thing.'

I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.

Like virtually all of the women I know, I spent my teenage years battling with my body and feeling I wasn't good enough. A lot of that negativity is because I was pursuing a career in modeling and was told countless times that my body was too big. My hips and thighs were too wide.

I have seen actresses avoiding food out of fear that beauty would be lost.

I used to refer to myself as a 'theoretical anorexic,' just as crazy when it came to body image, but saved by a lack of self-discipline. My daughters do everything better than I do - they're smarter, more beautiful, happier. What if they end up better at anorexia, too?

I am not naturally that thin, so I had to go through everything from using drugs to diet pills to laxatives to fasting. Those were my main ways of controlling my weight.

I'm no stranger to weight issues. I've had cellulite since I was about nine years old. I have enjoyed the uber support of Spanx many times.

In New York, if you weigh under 200 pounds and decline so much as a cookie at a co-worker's party, women will flock to your side, assuring you of your appealing physique. This is how skittish we are about the dangers of anorexia and the pressures of body image.

Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body image issues are an aspect of their lives which is causing them low self esteem and day-to-day suffering.

I just don't like being overweight.

Almost everything I do is related to being fat.

I never thought that I'd be considered to have a good body. I was bony up top and kind of dumpy on the bottom.

I hate my stomach. It's impossible to get it flat, and the area around my belly button drives me crazy.