Max Joseph Quotes

Commercials are not the only exposure that obesity gets on TV. It is by no means a rarity on the wonderful Judge Judy's show when both plaintiff and accused all but literally fill the screen.

I felt good full figured. Morbidly obese I was unhealthy and dying.

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 consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so.

I'm kind of fat.

Almost everything I do is related to being fat.

I was fat, and that was awful because when you're young and sensitive, you think the world is over because you're fat.

I've been overweight all my life.

I felt different from everyone else - like an alien. The looks I received when I was 320 pounds were ones usually reserved for three-eyed monsters, half-man half-woman reptiles, creatures with hideous rolls of skin that sweated profusely and jiggled when they walked. That last one really was me.

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

If you walk down the street, within five minutes you will see someone who is morbidly obese or obese.

I still represent for overweight adults and kids, but I am also now painfully and personally aware of the health issues.

When you're overweight like I've been my whole life, you've been made fun of. And, uh, it's not good growing up.

I feel for the overly thin women as I do for the overweight women.

There is nothing offensive about the word 'obese.' It is a descriptor of a person's weight.

It's good that fat schoolchildren are no longer bullied, but it's worrying if they feel it's OK to be large because no one is pointing it out.

I've been called fat my whole life. I am fat, so it's kind of silly to get mad about it.

My family, doctors, and society at large were constantly telling me that I was too heavy, that I needed to exercise more, that I should be smaller.

My weight was a huge issue as a young person. For my mother, for my father, and for my siblings... nobody in my family is overweight. And here I come.

I've talked to so many people, men and women alike, that get overweight and their self-esteem just goes in the tank. They think they're judged. They think they're unattractive.

You take away the handicap of obesity, and this person becomes someone else. Take a jolly fat man for instance. You talk to him, and his heart is breaking. He wants to be thin.

I am not a member of Fat Liberation, nor do I think that obesity is healthy. But I do believe that in many ways my life has been a more charmed and happy one because I was always large.

If the childhood obesity epidemic remains unchecked, it will condemn many of our kids to shorter lives, as well as the emotional and financial burdens of poor health.

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.

I love my body. I'm very much OK with it. I don't think artists are ever the ones who have the problem with their weight, it is other people.