Kate Winslet Quotes

When I was heavy, people would say to me - and it was such a backhanded compliment - they would say, 'You've got such a beautiful face,' in the way of, like, 'Oh, isn't it a shame that from the neck down you're questionable.'

I am shocked as to how much importance my weight garners in the world we live in. I don't know why it is so important, to be honest.

To call yourself 'plus size' is just a euphemism for being fat. Life is much easier when you're thinner. Big is not beautiful, of course a job comes down to how you look.

I don't like how I have to always be judged for my weight - I hate that.

I was told I was fat in the modeling world, and a director on a shoot told me I needed to lose weight. The J-Lo booty wasn't popular then, and I wanted to be the perfect Hollywood girl - tall, blonde and skinny. I couldn't do the 'tall' because I was 5'2, and I couldn't do the skinny, either.

It's difficult to be at events with a room full of women who weigh half as much as you do.

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

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

I'm quite a confident person in many ways, but there's only so much you can hear about being compared to Hattie Jacques. For the record, she was a comedy goddess, but she was 25 stone. I hope I'm right in saying I'm not in any way nearly 25 stone.

Gratuitous fat jokes always hurt, no matter what.

Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight.

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.'

I guess that's what I was: a set of abs. And they lit the abs and shot the abs and sent the abs on their way. The photographer didn't look at my face once. I was humiliated.

Judgment is judgment, whether you're obese, or too skinny, or not athletic enough.

Nobody wants a fat lead singer.

I've had designers say to my face, 'Oh, I want to dress you now that you're skinny.' And that's really rude.

When I was with Geffen Records, I weighed almost 400 pounds. The label told me that I had a great voice but wasn't marketable having a weight image.

I was a dancer, but I was always a little overweight. I'd say, 'Hello, I'm Valerie Harper, and I'm overweight.' I'd say it quickly before they could... I always got called chubby. My nose was too wide; my hair was too kinky.

Growing up, you see movies, and the big person is always the butt of a joke or the funny best friend, or they lose weight, and that's when they become redeemable.

The song 'Conceited' on 'There's Something About Remy' was inspired by people always telling me that I'm so much prettier in person or that I've lost so much weight since they saw me on TV. I don't even know if that's a compliment. Were you watching me on TV thinking I was ugly?

I don't think I'm ugly per se, but on bad days, I have been told that I look like the monster from 'The Hills Have Eyes.' That was extremely confidence-shattering, so I try to take care of myself.

I think there's a bias against fat people on network television.

As for body-shaming, there will always be people who will love chubby people and those who will dislike them.

No one comments if they think a man has lost weight or if they think he needs to eat more.