Nia Vardalos Quotes

I love the way my weight fluctuates in the newspapers. It was 18 stone and then people look at a bad picture of me and add a few more stone on. I think the highest was 22 stone.

One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.

I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.

A fat stomach sticks out too far. It prevents you from looking down and seeing what is going on around you.

I was a chubby boy. My pants used to wear out in the middle, and it was because my legs used to rub together. I wasn't obese, just chunky.

What do they want me to do, get lipo? I'm just big boned. There's nothing I can do.

Adele is another problem. I never said that she was fat. I said that she was a little roundish; a little roundish is not fat. But for such a beautiful girl... after that she lost eight kilos [17.6 pounds] so I think the message was not that bad.

The public doesn't care about my size. It's just something for the media to talk about.

I realized that in those nine seasons I started out at about 225 pounds and I felt, you know, full figured fabulous woman but in those seasons I gained 75 pounds up to over 300 pounds all in front of the nation.

I'm kind of fat.

There just are not a lot of overweight people in Hollywood.

Because I was always a fat child, I got fatter and fatter, and I ended up 18 stone and with a 40-inch waist.

As an actor, whether you look good or you don't, it's still about what you look like: Whether you are heavy enough to play this part or thin enough to play that part. The fact of the matter is, you can add a little weight with some extra padding, but you can't shave it off.

I hang out with models, the biggest pop stars and, you know, really and honestly, I hate saying this, but none of them are achieving those body shapes by being healthy.

I look good, but I probably have the insides of Elvis.

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

I've exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.

When I gain a pound it's in the headlines.

Nobody wants a fat lead singer.

All you need is a bad angle and suddenly you're 30 pounds overweight.

My aunts still try to fatten me up.

I am not with child - I am with pot belly.

When I was a model at 15, I was eating one red pepper a day, and if I had a big day of castings, I would survive off a bag of Haribo, which gave me the 500 calories a day that would keep me alive. I was congratulated daily on my appearance - the more vertebrae upon my back you could count, the better my auditions went.

I've not got a celebrity body.

Whenever I over-indulge - usually by eating too much dessert - I see the results in my thighs. The backs of my thighs begin to lose their smoothness as the hints of cellulite threaten to turn them into 'cottage cheese.'