Roberta Flack Quotes

I just don't like being overweight.

When I was in middle school and high school, I was over 100 pounds overweight.

I'm fat! There's nothing else to call it.

By the time I was a teenager, I weighed 400 pounds.

I've talked to so many people, men and women alike, that get overweight and their self-esteem just goes in the tank. They think they're judged. They think they're unattractive.

I figured being fat was my destiny.

When I was in high school I was 250 pounds.

Almost everything I do is related to being fat.

I was overweight when I went to school. In fact, I was overweight when I left, just taller. Fatty Cavill was the nickname. I mean, no one wants to be Fatty Cavill.

Weight is something I've battled all my life.

I don't really know why I'm not thinner than I am.

As a kid who grew up chubby, I just marveled at the fact that I could be thin.

If I look at the one thorn that is in my side, of all my life, it is my weight. I fret about it, I'm anxious about it, being an actor on television - it drives me insane. It just seems to be something that plays a central part in waking up in the morning and thinking, 'How am I with myself today?'

People who are overweight don't want unsolicited advice. Guess what. We know we're fat. We live in homes with mirrors.

When you are overweight, you just don't feel good about yourself.

At 26 or 27, I was fatter than anyone.

I've been fat my whole life and pretended I don't mind. But I do mind. It's really stupid that I've gone on being greedy and fat.

I was really fat in school.

My weight was a huge issue as a young person. For my mother, for my father, and for my siblings... nobody in my family is overweight. And here I come.

I always had a weight issue since I was a young kid.

You take away the handicap of obesity, and this person becomes someone else. Take a jolly fat man for instance. You talk to him, and his heart is breaking. He wants to be thin.

I've always been conscious of my weight.

I have obsessed about my weight in some sort of way all my life. I used to write in my journal what I weighed every day.

I have lost and put on big batches of weight in my life many, many times. But what concerns me is the idea of being an obese old woman, because I don't like the idea of being physically incapable in someone else's hands.

I'm kind of fat.