Dion Waiters Quotes

I figured being fat was my destiny.

I don't mind being slightly fat-ish, I just don't want to be fat.

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

One of the biggest struggles of my life is my weight. My weight is always going up and down, and I'm always fighting that, and I think that no matter what I do, I'm never going to look good enough to everybody else.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.

I'm kind of fat.

Almost everything I do is related to being fat.

Sometimes I wish I were just magically a size 6 and I never had to give it a single thought.

As I was growing up, it was made clear that the fat me wasn't welcome, that a thin person was expected and awaited, and impatiently so.

I had ballooned out to close to 400 pounds at one point. And in the '80s, we were just beginning to get on video and disco. So therefore, I did not fit in, and my record company let me go because they said, 'Look, you're just not marketable enough with the weight problem.'

A smaller waist is not the solution to all your problems.

Sure, I'm sensitive about my weight. I don't do fat jokes.

I was a dancer, but I was always a little overweight. I'd say, 'Hello, I'm Valerie Harper, and I'm overweight.' I'd say it quickly before they could... I always got called chubby. My nose was too wide; my hair was too kinky.

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 absolutely didn't think, 'I am really fat, I must get thinner.'

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

I don't have to be a size zero anymore. But I still want to feel and look good.

I was pretty self-conscious about my body because everybody kept going on like, "Oh, she's so curvy!" and "She's a plus-size model!" and this and that. It's all people would talk about - how I'm not very skinny. For a while, it made me pretty upset and I got a bit obsessive about it. I did a bunch of dieting and exercising and everything. I was losing weight, but I was still much bigger than everybody else. I didn't really see the point of making myself crazy anymore, so I kind of toned it down a little bit.

I didn't want to find out the reality that if I wanted my dream, I had to lose weight. That's a crushing dream for anybody... to change yourself to get your dream. Nobody should have to do that.