Arabella Weir Quotes

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?

Shame doesn't exist as an emotion without the projected or perceived sense of judgment coming from somewhere else.

I am not even trying to become size zero. My problem was that I hated to see myself putting on weight when I could see others around me slim and trim and looking great. It was affecting me mentally.

At 26 or 27, I was fatter than anyone.

The pressure to be thin, which causes guilt and obsessiveness around food, is terrible and starts so early. For me, it started at sixteen when I left home and gained weight for the first time and was told by a slightly older boy, out of the blue, that I was "too plump." The shock of that lasted a good long time.

I’m constantly criticised for being too skinny. I’m trying to gain weight but my body won’t let it happen. What people don’t understand is that calling someone too skinny is the same as calling someone too fat, it’s not a nice feeling.

When women are excited about a date, they go immediately on a diet, because all women know they are hideously obese.

I don't obsess about my weight, which is probably one of the reasons why other people have such a problem with it.

Sometimes I worry more about losing weight than gaining weight, because this is how people know and accept me.

When I went to college, being thin was seen as good, so everyone told me I was normal. Then you get older, and you start putting on weight, and you're like, 'Oh God, I used to be really small.' Then you get into the world of media, and you just feel the pressure massively.

As women, I think we're used to looking around to see what people think about this, who's approving of us, who's criticizing us, and whether we have to internalize their thoughts on us.

I was fat when I was a kid. I was a little chunkier, but that's boring because everyone was fat when they were a kid, right? Didn't we all go through a chubby stage? Mine maybe lasted a little longer - mine went until, like, the end of high school.

I want people to think about what I have achieved and not what I look like.

Lots of people who do bodybuilding want to walk around in tank top and shorts, because they want to show people what they've got - and there's nothing wrong with that. But I didn't want to do that because I didn't care what people thought.

Because I would be around so many people in the fashion industry, there's this kind of dialogue. People would always say, 'Oh your daughter is so beautiful. Is she a model?' And it was so strange for me to hear because I felt so not beautiful inside.

If I cared deeply about what people thought of me, I probably would have never made it out of Compton, California.

Some people like to look at pictures of themselves before they lost weight. I don't particularly care for that. Whenever I was overweight, it was a very sad time in my life.

The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people's minds.

The more successful I get, the more I am reminded that in the minds of a great many people I will never be anything more than my body. No matter what I accomplish, I will be fat, first and foremost.

She was a steady date until she put on some weight.

Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.

People have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm.

If you go too far down the rabbit hole of what people think about you, it can change everything about who you are.

Do I worship God or what other people think of me?

We should leave people alone about their weight. Being chubby for a while (provided you don’t give yourself diabetes) is a natural phase of life and nothing to be ashamed of. Like puberty or slowly turning into a Republican.