Holly Willoughby Quotes

As an actress - and as an actor, too, but it's worse for actresses - you constantly get picked apart for how you look.

Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.

Usually, you'll have a show like the 'King of Queens,' and there'll be one really fat guy, but at least he has a beautiful wife - they balance it out.

Our cultural discussion of fat bodies and how we clothe them has nothing to do with health concerns, the obesity epidemic, or the comfort of fat people. It has everything to do with what we expect from women, what we've been told by the fashion industry, and the value we place on 'perfect' bodies.

Ads featuring real women and real beauty are such a necessary component to offset the potentially dangerous programming out there for little girls.

It is disheartening when you read an interview with an actress, and it starts by describing what she is wearing.

An ocean of ink - real and virtual - has been spilled critiquing the appearance of female politicians.

I'm sorry, I just don't want to be a part of this conspiracy to make women feel pressured about their bodies.

The people I look up to most are actresses such as Kate Winslet and Amy Schumer, who have never been size zero and are judged on their bodies of work, not their bodies.

Men have better self-images than women. You know what I've never seen in a men's magazine? A makeover.

I can remember years ago, when Kate Moss first came around and there were so many articles. Everyone was saying that it was heroin chic - that she was a waif, that she was anorexic. But Kate would eat just as much as anybody I knew - the media had just turned her into this thing. It must be really, really hard when you're the object of that.

A lot of actresses feel the pressure to constantly look good, to constantly show how well-toned every inch of their bodies are and how much they've been to the gym, not necessarily to do justice to the role they're in, but to point out to the producers out there, 'Hey, look what I've got - remember me for your next project.'

The fashion industry has a responsibility to represent a healthy image of women, but to start weighing them and putting them against a wall and making them feel like animals? No.

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.

It's everywhere, constant criticism of women's appearance in magazines and online. It's not easy to navigate.

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

I have a 6-year-old niece who doesn't look like the majority of girls on the covers of magazines. I hope that by the time she's 16, the world will have changed.

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

I'm concerned and alarmed about the images of girls and women that are broadcast every single minute.

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

Most female models don't have any muscle mass.

The public doesn't care about my size. It's just something for the media to talk about.

From a male perspective, you don't think about how much outward pressure and importance you put on how women look.

Our bodies are exploited so much in the media, I feel like everyone is made to feel like they're not worthy or beautiful.

Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.