Lily Allen Quotes

They go on about banning size zero, but I think Hollywood stars are the worst perpetrators. Most models are naturally long and gangly, while a lot of these young girls in Hollywood have gone on extreme diets. Their concave chests and bony arms are terrifying. It's scary to think that normal teenagers are tempted to copy them.

There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary.

I find this wave of super-skinny women scary. I'm not going to lie to you, I've got to drag myself down to the gym like everybody else. But I look at the red carpet sometimes and it's like a pageant.

Let's face it: Russell Crowe is fat and no one ever talks about it.

I'm definitely bigger than a Rihanna. Pop stars nowadays are all perfect Barbie-doll bodies, and they talk about how they keep their bodies up with hard work, so in my eyes, it's good to have a regular, average body type in the charts.

I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.

But if you are young and want to work in the fashion industry and are not naturally skinny - which most girls are not - then you are forced to be unhealthy.

Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think they're fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world; there are those things.

I was never anorexic, so I was never that skinny. I was never bony-bony. But I remember thinking, I don't want to be this skinny.

People go to the movies to watch a film and all they're thinking about is the actress's cellulite they saw in a magazine.

I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.

A fat stomach sticks out too far. It prevents you from looking down and seeing what is going on around you.

Models, even male models - how small they've gotten! It looks great for the clothes, but it's not what you want in real life.

I never thought that I'd be considered to have a good body. I was bony up top and kind of dumpy on the bottom.

I see girls who are so skinny on the catwalks, and I know so many of them destroy their lives and their family's lives.

The great thing about 'Skins' is that it's not '90210.' We don't have to look stick-thin and ripped. Those shows send out the wrong messages by showing body-perfect people but not mentioning that they spend four hours a day in the gym to look that way.

I'm tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.

I was a chubby boy. My pants used to wear out in the middle, and it was because my legs used to rub together. I wasn't obese, just chunky.

I must be an anorexic because an anorexic looks in the mirror and sees a fat person.

I look good, but I probably have the insides of Elvis.

There are many artists who feel that in order to move forward in their careers, they have to lose a drastic amount of weight.

I don't think just being skinny means necessarily anorexic.

So I would always try and be the lightest I could. In high school, I really wouldn't eat. I would only have lunch and I would only have salads. And then it got so crazy as to just eating like a cracker or a cucumber a day and I would feel full.

I've exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.

I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.