Chrissy Metz Quotes

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.

I get asked about my weight endlessly. There is no story. It doesn't merit so much talk.

If Kevin James or Paul Giamatti drop weight, I'm done. I don't want to be the last pudge out there.

I'm fat! There's nothing else to call it.

I think people really connect with the idea of someone who's gained and lost weight in this very public way, and also someone who's an emotional eater.

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

I was asked to lose weight by a network for a TV pilot. The conversation happens because you get a job, and your agent or manager calls, and they say, 'They are so excited about you. They just think there is no one better for this part, and they want you to look and feel your best. They really feel that that could include losing 15 or 20 pounds.'

Weight was a big thing for me to overcome.

I want people to get over my weight and the loss of it. It's been years, and I am sure people can find better things to talk about.

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.

When I started working out, it wasn't about weight loss; I was going through a really hard time and needed an emotional release. Once you start getting in the tabloids claiming you have fake body parts, then it's like, 'Okay, I made it. Now I'm really working out.'

I've long struggled with my body image and have worked hard to achieve a healthy weight.

I actually go to the gym much more now than I did when I was on Buffy. I like to stay fit, because that's when I feel really healthy. But I never worked out for any kind of image. People have said to me, 'Do you starve yourself before photo shoots?' And I always say, 'No way.! That's what airbrushing is for. I had french fries last night.'

When you're the spokeswoman for a weight-loss program, everything is witnessed. I weigh in once a week with a witness. I have to sign an affidavit saying I cannot have any surgeries.

Anywhere in life, for girls there's pressure to keep your weight and to keep yourself feeling and looking good.

If I look at the one thorn that is in my side, of all my life, it is my weight. I fret about it, I'm anxious about it, being an actor on television - it drives me insane. It just seems to be something that plays a central part in waking up in the morning and thinking, 'How am I with myself today?'

I looked massive next to Ryan Seacrest! But I was lucky that I've never had anyone say, 'Jordin, you need to lose weight.'

I was just sick of being fat, you know? You get sick of it. It just really, it's a tiring lifestyle to have.

When I was a teenager, I would have tried anything that an actress I liked was doing to get thin.

There's a huge emotional component to weight loss.

All actors are insecure. And I've got my insecurities, which is why I go to the gym all the time.

I often get references to 'slight' or whatever, and my weight's been a thing for me my whole life. I have to really, really work. I train six times a week to just be normal and not be fat.

Psychologically, when you've been overweight, you want to achieve the polar opposite.

My weight fluctuates, just like any other person's does, and there will always be critics.

Many weight issues stem from illness, be it physical or, indeed, emotional. And a large portion of people who sometimes struggle to maintain a 'healthy' weight deal daily with their own self-esteem crises.