Adam Scott Quotes

I was a little bit chubby when I was a kid.

I was rather a fat little boy.

I was short and fat as a child.

I was a really big kid.

I was a very fat baby.

I was really fat in school.

Kids are fat because of lack of parenting.

Can you believe approximately 17 percent of American children ages 2 to 19 years are obese? How about this fact: approximately 60 percent of overweight children ages 5 to 10 already have at least one risk factor for heart disease? We are all to blame for this - parents, schools, kids - all of us.

I went from being a beanpole - like a normal kid of the 1950s - and exploded. The weight piled on and didn't stop until into my adulthood.

I was never a rail-thin person.

Because I was always a fat child, I got fatter and fatter, and I ended up 18 stone and with a 40-inch waist.

I was a chubby boy. My pants used to wear out in the middle, and it was because my legs used to rub together. I wasn't obese, just chunky.

I started to put on weight when I was about four and a half and it got really bad when I was around nine. I ballooned. I was about 110 pounds.

I was this roly-poly kid at school.

It's good that fat schoolchildren are no longer bullied, but it's worrying if they feel it's OK to be large because no one is pointing it out.

When I talk to kids who are overweight, I see my face on their bodies.

I always had a weight issue since I was a young kid.

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.

From sixth grade on I was a real Pillsbury doughboy. Overweight, long hair, thick glasses.

I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.

I was a short, chubby kid, pretty shy.

The interesting thing about overeating or being obese is there's this physical manifestation of it.

As a kid, I was super skinny.

I've been fat since I was seven, and being fat sets you apart.

Toffee Crisp was my downfall. I once ate five at a sitting. Do you really need that third helping, Harry? My parents didn't overfeed me, nor did they make an issue of it. That's when things go wrong. It doesn't have to be a problem for children to be fat, but it does affect you: you aren't as happy in that skin.