Delta Burke Quotes

Like most women, my weight goes up and down.

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.

Who would have thought that the girl who was forced to go to the hospital because she's so skinny would one day be called too fat?

Ever since I was little, I loved to eat. I started eating when I wasn't hungry. My weight has always been up and down.

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.

During the course of filming 'Top Chef,' I gain 15 lbs., so I'm used to needing two dress sizes.

I'm a fat kid on the inside. I love food so much, and I fluctuate about 25 to 30 pounds between movies. I feel like I have to do a chess movie that requires very little movement at some point, just so I can eat pizza and play chess on the beach all day.

My weight has been one of the most challenging things that I've had to deal with throughout my career.

One of the biggest struggles of my life is my weight. My weight is always going up and down, and I'm always fighting that, and I think that no matter what I do, I'm never going to look good enough to everybody else.

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

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

I had a lil' chub-chub moment from ages 7 to 11. If somebody was teasing, they'd go straight to my fat. I was so insecure, I kept my shirt on in the pool, which is the worst because it sticks to your stomach anyway.

I definitely feel pressure to keep slim. I don't want to be the guy who lost weight and gained it all back. But it's hard. Sometimes I'll gorge and gain nine pounds in a weekend somehow, and I get bummed about it.

When I graduated, I was my biggest ever: 15 stone, with a boyfriend - my first - of just 11 stone. I was 23 years old. It wasn't just affecting my career: it was a health issue as well.

At 26 or 27, I was fatter than anyone.

There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.

I love the way my weight fluctuates in the newspapers. It was 18 stone and then people look at a bad picture of me and add a few more stone on. I think the highest was 22 stone.

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.

By the age of 18, I was very fat. My dad would say there's a Spall fat gene. But I was fat because I ate loads. I used to go and buy six or seven chocolate bars and eat my way through them.

A lot of people who are overweight - not everyone, but a lot of people - are dealing with issues such as emotional issues, stress issues. They become stress eaters and emotional eaters.

I was up around 340 pounds because the producers said they wanted a really big guy - and I'm not that big, you know! I've lost it all now though. I'm 285 pounds, my sexy weight!

When you struggle with weight, it's not an internal struggle... it's literally an external struggle, and everyone sees it.

I'm kind of fat.

I think a lot of people think because I was getting the divorce, that was really the catalyst for gaining so much weight.

I'm sure that my father becoming seriously ill when I was 14 had a lot to do with my going from chubby to fat.