Ralphie May Quotes

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'm not fat. I'm fluffy!

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

When people talk about my weight, I'm like, 'You seem to have a problem with it; I don't.'

I've always been an overweight girl, and I've never had an issue with that. I'm very comfortable with my body.

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

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 don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money.

On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people.

I don't go around calling myself a fat girl. It doesn't feel fun to me.

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

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

I'm a curvy girl and that will never change.

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

A lot of women think being thin is the way to go, but I prefer to have some meat on my bones.

My weight is this permanent topic that just doesn't fade away. Most days, I am fine with people talking about it. That doesn't bother me as much as how people use the fact to promote their own ventures.

Does any woman really just come in and say, 'I'm a plus-size woman?' Maybe as a defense mechanism or maybe as a way to kind of cope with fitting into society but... I just think it's divisive.

By Hollywood standards I'm still fat: until you are zero, you are big. I do get cold a lot now. I used to have a lot of layers - now I got to get a fur coat.

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

I don't think what size I am really matters.

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

To call yourself 'plus size' is just a euphemism for being fat. Life is much easier when you're thinner. Big is not beautiful, of course a job comes down to how you look.

I had spent my entire career not wanting to talk about weight, not wanting to deal with it, wanting to be an actor first.

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.

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.