Rupert Penry-Jones Quotes

I know what it's like to be a model and go to castings where some people like what they see and others look at you with distaste.

My body back at the Playboy mansion was the most important thing in life back then because we were in the spotlight every minute. We had to look good. The girls who gained the weight, those were the girls who didn't get the work.

I've had agents tell me, 'You're not gonna be on the cover of anything; you're a catalog girl.' I've had clients tell me, 'You're too fat, and we can't book you any more because you don't fit into the jeans.'

The first entry into modeling doesn't build your confidence. They pull out the tape measure and pick you apart. I'm a curvy woman, so I was definitely told I was 'too curvy.'

All fat women look the same; they all look 42.

I love fat people. Every fat person says it's not their fault, that they have gland trouble. You know which gland? The saliva gland.

I know what it feels like to carry a lot of weight in a society that's very image-conscious. It's a thin person's world, and we try to navigate within it without being made fun of.

I did a little modeling in Minnesota, but because I was a heavier 'model,' I didn't pursue it much when I lived there.

I went to almost all of the agencies in New York when I first visited. A lot of them wanted to sign me but also kind of indirectly were telling me that I needed to change in some way. Some directly told me that I wouldn't be a model unless I changed the way that my body looked.

There was a solid six-month period where I was going out on castings and I was laughed out of the room because I'm much more petite than other models.

I had so many agents tell me that at size 18, I would never work or work again. I heard, 'Go home and lose some weight.'

I’ve never dreamed of becoming a model. As a child I was bullied and insulted as ugly

I have no sponsors because I am not blond, tall and slim enough

I went to a modeling agency and said I wanted to be a model. I worked, worked, worked so much while I was studying.

I remember being told by my very first photographer that if I lost weight, and I was a skinny model, it would do wonders for my career. My mum got really defensive - 'I don't think we will be doing that, thank you so much, goodbye.'

I wasn't just known as one of the singers in Little Mix, I was known as 'the fat, ugly one'.

That always stuck with me. When I finished school in 2015, I started going to open calls in New York. But I was getting the same response every time: 'Get your measurements down. Take X inches off your thighs and hips.'

Like virtually all of the women I know, I spent my teenage years battling with my body and feeling I wasn't good enough. A lot of that negativity is because I was pursuing a career in modeling and was told countless times that my body was too big. My hips and thighs were too wide.

Acting was not for me. They were saying, you are too beautiful, you are too ugly, you are too plump, too tall, too short. You cannot believe the way you are judged.

I began working as a model because I was born thin. I didn't become thin to be a model.

Every agency would mention my hips. I remember looking at the other models and thinking, 'I do not look like these girls.'

As for body-shaming, there will always be people who will love chubby people and those who will dislike them.

Back in Nebraska, I was known as the fat model - the girl who was pretty for a big girl. My body, like my confidence, has been picked apart, manipulated, and controlled by others who didn't necessarily understand it.

As a model, we come in the room, and we are casted just on our looks. I think I'm funny; I think I'm clever. But in the end, they're picking me for my cheekbones or if I'm tall enough.

There was a model in my high school. She was like, 'You're so pretty. You should come see my agency'.