Health At Every Size Quotes

Bodybuilding helped me to realize that I don't have to look like the girls in the magazines and that it's OK to feel good about my curves.

There are exciting, intelligent, fat people - and exciting, intelligent, thin people.

My reality is never going to be stick-skinny.

I think people are way less judgmental about chunky guys.

You think people hate a fat person? Try a fat person who's trying to get thin.

I'm so grateful that I model at a time where 'plus-size' models are being championed, but they're still called 'plus-size' which is actually quite a stigma in itself. It's just healthy, curvy women.

There are more important things in life than being thin, anyway men prefer women with a bit of meat.

Fashion should be about making clothes that make all women look beautiful, not making women starve so that they can fit in a size 8.

I don't like how I have to always be judged for my weight - I hate that.

She was so fat that her bathtub has stretch marks.

I am an Asian woman. I am a size 12 Asian woman. I have been a size 18 Asian woman. I have been a size 6 Asian woman. I have been a size 18 disabled Asian woman.

I've been every size in the world. Parts of my twenties, I was in great shape, but I didn't appreciate it. 'If I was a 6 or an 8,' I thought, 'Why aren't I a 2 or a 4?'

A size 16 can be the best shape for you, and you can be healthy.

I've never been a size zero, let me say that here and now. I've never been that sort of person.

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

I don't have a problem with my body. I don't diet, and I'm not hiding anything. I'm not going to be the subject of a movie of the week 10 years from now.

In the Everybody-Give-Me-A-Hug victim culture in which we live, the obese want a spot at the table along with those who face discrimination based on the way that God or Nature or our Intelligent Designer created us.

The concept of plus-size is so derogatory and weird. What does that mean? Plus the normal size? It shouldn't exist any more.

I know the pain of somebody who's too thin and the pain of somebody that people say is too big.

My mother never said to lose weight. Diets were never a big deal. My mom was always beautiful and voluptuous and curvy, and I always thought she was gorgeous.

The skinnification of America's jeanscape has gone too far.

Those who fat shame, I want to tell them being happy has nothing to do with body weight but how one leads his or her life.

We have to stop judging people who are struggling with their weight.

I haven't always been the best advocate for my own body. I was a too-tall, pudgy child who felt completely out of control of the genetic lottery ticket she'd been given, so in retaliation, I shut down. I ignored my body and hated it for not being tiny and cute like my friends' bodies.

After the baby, I got bigger, and I like it. I like me better now than when I was young and skinny. I don't understand this extreme fashion for being anorexic-skinny. We forgot about women with curves - real women. We're not embracing that anymore.