Meghana Raj Quotes

When you look at movies, the lead girl is always gorgeous and thin. There is a stereotype that you need to look a certain way and when you get in the business you really feel the pressure.

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

If you look at tennis, the girls have become much more attractive; they wear makeup. In my generation, you were a tennis player. It wasn't like you had to look a certain way.

I think it's hilarious when people call Jessica Alba or Eva Longoria curvy. Come on. They're not curvy. They're small. I'm curvy.

Usually, you'll have a show like the 'King of Queens,' and there'll be one really fat guy, but at least he has a beautiful wife - they balance it out.

People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.

Women's liberation will not be achieved until a woman can become paunchy and bald and still think she's attractive to the opposite sex.

Thin people are beautiful, but fat people are adorable.

As an actress - and as an actor, too, but it's worse for actresses - you constantly get picked apart for how you look.

I don't think I'm curvaceous. It's simply that most other actresses are really, stupidly tiny.

I don't know what a world would be like if you do away with sexy images.

It's funny: a lot of roles I do read for mention physical presence - like, 'built like a quarterback' - and for me, it's pretty boring because I don't want that to be the most important thing. I'm not trying to be Dwayne Johnson.

When I'm sitting in a casting room in Paris, I'm not the thinnest model. Sometimes I'm not the most flat-chested, either.

Most female models don't have any muscle mass.

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 was always bigger than the other girls. My sisters are very, very beautiful and very skinny, and I've always had a more muscular body. So I grew up with a different mentality.

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.

Seriously, in America there are more big, curvy girls than there are little girls, and men love us, too.

I get 'voluptuous' a lot, or 'shapely,' but the fact is that as you get older you learn to embrace your body type. I wasn't able to do that until I was at least 23.

It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality.

It took me a while to accept that I'm not going to have the curves other girls get.

'Skinny' is only one body type.

Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.

I am five foot six, I am built of muscle and bone, and that is not very good for fashion, but it's who I am. Women who look good in fashion are six foot tall, don't have an ounce of muscle, and their legs are the size of my arm.

And as a woman on television, I actually feel like you're more representative of women if you're - if you've got curves and if everything isn't super tight.