Nina Garcia Quotes

I don't believe in the concept of size zero.

I'm not skinny for the wrong reasons. It's not because I'm bulimic or anorexic or doing drugs. Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight.

I'm not going to dinner with somebody who eats like a bird, nor do I want to eat like a bird. But its weird: In our business, I'm a size 2 and considered curvy. Its important to remind young women, 'Listen, even skinny girls have cellulite, even Halle Berry has cellulite, and what you see in photos isn't totally real.'

I am not a member of Fat Liberation, nor do I think that obesity is healthy. But I do believe that in many ways my life has been a more charmed and happy one because I was always large.

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 am, uh... a 6 foot tall woman, I feel like I'm a healthy size, I'm not anorexic; and I feel that people who aren't anorexic are punished... for not being anorexic.

Being too thin. Being bigger. I've been criticized for being on both sides of the scale.

I know the pain of somebody who's too thin and the pain of somebody that people say is too big.

I feel for the overly thin women as I do for the overweight women.

I've been called fat my whole life. I am fat, so it's kind of silly to get mad about it.

Models will always get a bad rap about weight, but I love to eat.

These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly. Fashion is about dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women.

I felt good full figured. Morbidly obese I was unhealthy and dying.

I had spent my entire career not wanting to talk about weight, not wanting to deal with it, wanting to be an actor first.

I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.

You can be fat and love yourself. You can be fat and have a great damn personality. You can be fat and sew your own clothes. But you can't be fat and healthy.

After the baby, I got bigger, and I like it. I like me better now than when I was young and skinny. I don't understand this extreme fashion for being anorexic-skinny. We forgot about women with curves - real women. We're not embracing that anymore.

I didn't get excited by weight loss, and since I was already happy being fat, I couldn't see the point of it all. I'm 6 ft. and weigh about 18 st. or 19 st., but weighing myself is not something I do with much pleasure.

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

I don't want to fly the flag for being unhealthy and overweight, but I don't want to fly the flag for being too thin, either.

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

Big women do themselves a disservice when they attempt to become the Righteous Fat (the Righteous Thin are bad enough, all that running around and sweating, somehow believing it means anything).

Almost everything I do is related to being fat.

I love my body because it's what I've been given. Being too thin is just as unhealthy as being obese.

I did a little modeling in Minnesota, but because I was a heavier 'model,' I didn't pursue it much when I lived there.