Ashley Graham Quotes

If you grow up fat, you have to try harder.

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

I was called the girl that was 'pretty for a big girl,' 'the fat model.'

There are varied experiences of overweight women throughout the country; there's not just one experience.

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

I just have a real problem with people who seek to portray fatness or thinness as moral concepts.

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

People are branded as either 'fat' or 'skinny' from an early age. You sort of never shake it, even if you end up losing weight.

I've had designers say to my face, 'Oh, I want to dress you now that you're skinny.' And that's really rude.

People think that, somehow, size makes you uncoordinated or incompetent. There is a lot of size discrimination out there, and I see the difference in the way people treated me when I was 360 pounds versus how they treat me when I'm 290 - from the industry to day-to-day people on the street.

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.'

I'm fat positive, in that I don't see fat as a bad thing. But what I do see as a bad thing is how I'm treated. I can have the most positive outlook in the world, but that is not going to change how hecklers and people walking down the street are yelling at me.

I have lived my life in a culture that hates fat people.

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.'

Our idea of a healthy body is so destabilised that insecure people have come to bolster their own bodies by deeming others - those with fat bodies - less worthy, less capable and less employable.

Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.

'Curvy' is just a polite way of saying 'fat.'

I like fat people more then I like thin people, things are always a lot more funnier when they happen to fat people.

I am, uh... a 6 foot tall woman, I feel like I'm a healthy size, I'm not anorexic; and I feel that people who aren't anorexic are punished... for not being anorexic.

It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.

I hate overweight, because it implies that there's a weight standard I should be adhering to.

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.

California is prejudiced about fat people.

I think there's a bias against fat people on network television.

I think that some of the biggest surprises I've had early on, actually to this day, are all the misconceptions about my body and my health. There are so many people who think that being a plus-size model, that there's something wrong with it, or that I must be unhealthy or that I'm promoting an unhealthy lifestyle.