Carre Otis Quotes

In my mind, every single female character I've written is plus-size.

You don't have to be age 20 and size zero to be sexually viable or viable as a woman.

I don't think I'm curvaceous. It's simply that most other actresses are really, stupidly tiny.

Women's bodies are amazing; what our bodies can do is incredible, so it's sad that we get distracted - all this stuff about being skinny, be this, be that - they're all distractions.

Eve wasn't a size 6 and neither am I.

I've always had a booty even when I was a baby, and when I was in high school and was skinny, I still had the booty. In Hollywood's eyes, the perfect women has to be a stick figure, tall, blonde hair, with big boobs.

There's a reason why there's a problem with bodies, and it's because you never actually get to see any normal versions of them.

I'm comfortable with being a voluptuous woman because I'm not going to be a size two and that's ok with me.

The pressure is on the women to be particularly small, and then not only that, the whole package. It's extreme.

I did an episode on my talk show on cellulite, and I brought seven women into a dressing room at Nordstrom's in L.A., and we all sat and talked about our cellulite.

I'm not going to dinner with somebody who eats like a bird, nor do I want to eat like a bird. But its weird: In our business, I'm a size 2 and considered curvy. Its important to remind young women, 'Listen, even skinny girls have cellulite, even Halle Berry has cellulite, and what you see in photos isn't totally real.'

All fat women look the same; they all look 42.

I'm so glad teenagers can look up to young girls and realize it's okay to be voluptuous.

There's no such thing as a standard size movie star, or woman for that matter.

I think I sort of blossomed, so to speak, around 17. I started to get hips and put on weight, which I was very happy about. And that's when I met this agent, who told me I had to lose 10 pounds. I said, 'You've got to be kidding me. I finally got it on - I'm not losing it!'

Heartless retouching should not be the chosen tool to represent women in the beginning of this century.

My parents always told me I'm beautiful the way that I am, and I never thought to myself that I needed to be skinny because there's a magazine out there that said, 'Oh, size two,' or, 'Oh, this girl's beautiful because she's skinny.'

Every woman is not a runway model, nor should she be.

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

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

Seriously, in America there are more big, curvy girls than there are little girls, and men love us, too.

To each his own, but I just think that we women have a certain body type. As Indian women, we have a beautiful body type. And I believe in the celebration of curves. Whether it's Salma Hayek, Penelope Cruz, Zeenat Aman or Shilpa Shetty, they are very curvaceous and beautiful. I don't know why anyone would want to fight that.

Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.

My reality is never going to be stick-skinny.

I believe every woman's body is beautiful in its own way. I have never understood that just because a woman has thick thighs, she is considered fat. For so long, I've been around in the modeling world and have tried to break that barrier. But I think now it's turning around.