Arabella Weir Quotes

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

I was born fat and have always been, which was just fine and even healthy and cute until I turned ten or so. Puberty hit like a hurricane and brought a new set of rules. All of a sudden it was my fault I was chubby.

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 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 figured being fat was my destiny.

Almost everything I do is related to being fat.

The biggest change in my life is that I now have to apologize for being thin.

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

I've always been a thin girl. I'm not going to be fat, ever. Let's get that straight. Whitney is not going to be fat, ever. Okay?

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

Being fat worked, and I think that was what was confusing for me for a long time in my career.

The pressure on women to be thin is like a plague. I have gone through my life, like a lot of women, rating my experiences on the basis of, 'Was I thin at that time or fat?' And it doesn't seem to let up.

I was never one of those fat-victim people. I always have to address how much weight I lost, and people always realize then how fat I was.

It's like everyone says they love my body, but then I'm supposed to lose weight.

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've not got a celebrity body.

I used to use Facetune to get rid of blemishes, and slimming apps because I was scared of being called fat, but no more.

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.

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

When women are excited about a date, they go immediately on a diet, because all women know they are hideously obese.

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.

Inside every fat person there's a thin person looking to get out - They've just eaten them.

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

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

I spent my whole single life trying to be thin just to find someone who'd love me once I got fat.