Hailey Gates Quotes

People always think that if you eat anything as a model, it's amazing. I used to tease them and say, you know I'm going to throw up afterwards.

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

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

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.

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.

Women feel like we're fat if we can't wear the clothes we wore in high school. Men, in contrast, only start to feel fat only when they can no longer fit into a foreign car.

I think that promoting insecurity in the form of plastic surgery is infinitely more harmful than an artistic expression related to body modification.

You see your peers weighing 80 pounds and you think, 'Oh, my God, I've got to be 80 pounds or I'll fail.'

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

There are many artists who feel that in order to move forward in their careers, they have to lose a drastic amount of weight.

I didn't think I was fat. I just thought I didn't need to gain any weight. But I would drop weight and then I would be comfortable with that number. Then I would lose more weight and that would become my new number.

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

I've been to a lot of photo shoots, and I see these girls that are just really thin. They're not healthy. They don't work out.

I was raised to be self-conscious about weight. Then as I got older and started doing television, it became a career issue, like, 'You have to lose weight or you'll lose that job.'

The pressure was if I didn't get into that dress size someone else would - someone else would get the job.

I was in a weight-cutting sport, in judo, so I had to be a certain weight on a deadline. It kind of pushed me into having a really unhealthy relationship with food in my teens. I felt like if I wasn't exactly on weight, I wasn't good-looking.

Outside every thin woman is a fat man trying to get in.

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

In this industry, there's a massive pressure to be a certain weight.

I'm a woman, and every woman wants to be skinnier - unfortunately.

I have to be below 140 to really look good. I have to work my legs like crazy. Actually, do you want my real goal? My real goal's always too low. I love the way I look at, like, 128.

I've talked to so many people, men and women alike, that get overweight and their self-esteem just goes in the tank. They think they're judged. They think they're unattractive.

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.