Maye Musk Quotes

I did not label myself 'plus size.' The fashion industry did.

I was a 'straight-size' model from 13 to 16, but I was eventually dropped by the agency because my hips were too big.

I was never thin enough to be a proper model and not big enough to be plus-size.

There's all body types, but there's just one size.

Some women are naturally thin. But there needs to be an appreciation for a variety of types of women because we don't all come in one package. We're not pre-destined to all be a size six. It's very hard for a large group of women to maintain a thinness which is, after all, only natural to a few people.

'Skinny' is only one body type.

I'm a size 4. In modeling, that's often too big.

I'm not going to have beautiful curves or Kim Kardashian's body. I just have to accept that.

I'm not too hard on myself about dieting and exercise. Some stars are a little too bony for me. What happened to the booty?

Some people say there's a reason that Victoria's Secret wouldn't put me or any woman who doesn't fit within a certain spectrum on the runway.

The States are more accommodating to fat people - there are more plus-sized clothing labels, and people talk openly about it.

I felt the term 'plus size' was inaccurate and kept all these beautiful, stunning women with the widest spectrum of body types I've ever seen - mind you, curvy agencies start at a size 6 and go up to a size 18 - from being seen and resonated with.

There shouldn't be a segregation of women over a size 16, it should just be all women who want to wear beautiful clothes.

I don't understand why it's not okay to be plus-size. I don't know why people hate that phrase. Many models have built their careers as plus-size women and then suddenly don't want to be called that anymore. But you're still cashing checks from plus-size designers.

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

I have cellulite - and had it even when I was at my absolute thinnest. I'm never not going to have cellulite. People need to just accept that it's there and maybe dress accordingly or use body makeup to cope with it.

At the end of the day, it just means 'curvy.' That's why I think the word 'plus-size' in the industry is very different from people's mind view of what 'plus-size' really should mean.

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.

I've never been a size zero, let me say that here and now. I've never been that sort of person.

If you want someone who's big-boned and you like that, ain't nothing wrong with having a little extra meat on there. If you like them thin-boned, then that's okay, too.

I'm the type of girl who's always had to buy jeans in three sizes because I never know what my body is going to do from one day to the next.

In Hollywood, a normal-size body is unruly.

In my 10 years, I never put a girl that was too skinny in French 'Vogue.'

Well, you know, I have always had an issue with the whole weight thing with people in general because I happen to love how big women look. I mean, it's all a perspective. It's all an opinion, and I think sort of the Rubenesque, voluptuous body is a lot sexier than the boney bag of bones with fake everything.

I have a figure, and there aren't many girls out there right now who have that.