Tamannaah Quotes

I have obsessed about my weight in some sort of way all my life. I used to write in my journal what I weighed every day.

You see your peers weighing 80 pounds and you think, 'Oh, my God, I've got to be 80 pounds or I'll fail.'

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 didn't think I was fat. I just thought I didn't need to gain any weight. But I would drop weight and then I would be comfortable with that number. Then I would lose more weight and that would become my new number.

Being too thin. Being bigger. I've been criticized for being on both sides of the scale.

I was raised to be self-conscious about weight. Then as I got older and started doing television, it became a career issue, like, 'You have to lose weight or you'll lose that job.'

The pressure was if I didn't get into that dress size someone else would - someone else would get the job.

I don't want to be wondering about how skinny I am, wondering what I'm going to eat because I don't want to gain and I want to look hot and young, always and forever.

I was in a weight-cutting sport, in judo, so I had to be a certain weight on a deadline. It kind of pushed me into having a really unhealthy relationship with food in my teens. I felt like if I wasn't exactly on weight, I wasn't good-looking.

The waist is a terrible thing to mind.

Even at the times that I've pushed myself to exhausting limits to get myself at my lightest weight, I did not feel comfortable in that skin.

In this industry, there's a massive pressure to be a certain weight.

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

I am not naturally that thin, so I had to go through everything from using drugs to diet pills to laxatives to fasting. Those were my main ways of controlling my weight.

People always think that if you eat anything as a model, it's amazing. I used to tease them and say, you know I'm going to throw up afterwards.

I don't think it's good to constantly talk about your own weight and the fact that you look fat in jeans.

Any people whose lives are about the way they look, whether it's fat or thin, are in a dangerous area.

I don't really know why I'm not thinner than I am.

I feel like most actresses kind of have issues in body dysmorphia.

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

There's always going to be a part of me that worries about not looking as slim as other actresses.

Outside every thin woman is a fat man trying to get in.

Yes, I talk about eating disorders and you know, excessive dieting and excessive exercising can be a sign of a mental illness... but when we talk about eating disorders... the issue is not the food or the exercise, the issue is a lack of healthy conception of self. That is the issue.

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.