Clare Balding Quotes

Personally I think women look better with a bit of chub on them.

I don't want to be size zero and I'm glad I'm not.

People don't just want to be thin. They want to be curvy.

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

The one thing I like about 'Playboy' is they don't have the anorexic look. The women are voluptuous. So I didn't really want to diet. I just wanted to tone up.

I want to be a big, fleshy voluptuous woman with curves. I want a big bum, but I don't have one.

I think a lot of girls think that they have to be super-thin, to meet the Hollywood image, but I think a girl who is voluptuous is very beautiful.

While I believe that when you are in the glamour industry, you have to look your best, I also believe being skinny is not 'hot and happening.'

Sometimes people feel really trapped by the body that they have. Women are told, 'You have this body shape; you're a pear or string bean, and you can't change the way you look.' That's just not true.

I don't have a Kate Moss body, but I'm very proud and happy with mine.

I thought, well, you might see curves there, but that's just a bone - so even if I lose weight that's not going to change anything. That's how I look. That's my shape. Do the math.

After the baby, I got bigger, and I like it. I like me better now than when I was young and skinny. I don't understand this extreme fashion for being anorexic-skinny. We forgot about women with curves - real women. We're not embracing that anymore.

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.

Well, you know, I have always had an issue with the whole weight thing with people in general because I happen to love how big women look. I mean, it's all a perspective. It's all an opinion, and I think sort of the Rubenesque, voluptuous body is a lot sexier than the boney bag of bones with fake everything.

I get 'voluptuous' a lot, or 'shapely,' but the fact is that as you get older you learn to embrace your body type. I wasn't able to do that until I was at least 23.

My reality is never going to be stick-skinny.

Thumbs up to the buxom woman. Size zero is boring!

I'd much rather be known as some curvy Kate than as some skinny stick.

I'm not going to have beautiful curves or Kim Kardashian's body. I just have to accept that.

When you look at women and what's sexy right now, I feel like we're finally back to a curvaceous healthy body rather than just skinny with fake boobs.

From 12-year-old girls to 70-year-old matriarchs, I know hundreds of women who have some sort of body image issue. This is sad and seriously worrying, but it's true, and it's why I feel some kind of social responsibility to do what I can to show a variety of body types in fashion magazines.

I'm not pretending that I'm the perfect body shape.

I don't believe in the concept of size zero.

There are more important things in life than being thin, anyway men prefer women with a bit of meat.

I don't think what size I am really matters.