Huma Qureshi Quotes

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.

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

I was fat, and that was awful because when you're young and sensitive, you think the world is over because you're fat.

All my life people have made fun of me because I was so skinny. They kind of made me feel bad about it sometimes. I worried that maybe people will think I am really anorexic.

Outside every thin woman is a fat man trying to get in.

People have said I'm too fat to be a pop star.

I was always the slightly fat kid, which used to bother me quite a bit.

I'm not that good looking.

I've always been the porky boy in my head.

I'm never satisfied with the way I look.

I was known for being talented, but I was still the fat girl. And it wasn't what people were looking for. There's a lot that you hear. There's a lot of cruelty out there. Some of it comes from the executive offices. It comes from other artists at times. It was a very difficult thing to overcome.

In New York, if you weigh under 200 pounds and decline so much as a cookie at a co-worker's party, women will flock to your side, assuring you of your appealing physique. This is how skittish we are about the dangers of anorexia and the pressures of body image.

I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.

I'll never forget the day when a woman came up to me and said, 'No, you could never be on a magazine cover. Your face features don't work; your eyes are small, you have a small face but a big nose.' I was only 14 and I had never noticed any of that stuff, you know?

So I've never in my whole life really been teased about my weight.

They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.

I know what it feels like to carry a lot of weight in a society that's very image-conscious. It's a thin person's world, and we try to navigate within it without being made fun of.

Like all girls, when I was growing up, I always worried about this bit of me being too fat or that bit. But I look back at pictures of me when I was young, and I was thin and gorgeous.

I was muscular - I was never overweight. But tell a girl that she has to lose 15 pounds when she's not fat, and that has destroyed a lot of who I am over the years, even still. In my mind I'm thinking, 'I'm always too heavy. I should be a skinny thing.'

Growing up, I was always chubby. My girlfriends were always running around in two-pieces, and I never felt comfortable to do that.

If I were old, fat and ugly, I don't know if anybody would be interested in me.

There isn't a woman alive who doesn't have problems with her body. Including me!

I'm not like a gorgeous bombshell or anything like that.

The story with anorexic girls - nobody works with anorexic girls. That has nothing to do with fashion.

I'm ugly.