Dave Barry Quotes

It's hard for me to put on weight.

During the course of filming 'Top Chef,' I gain 15 lbs., so I'm used to needing two dress sizes.

I had absolutely no idea how I had ballooned during my pregnancy. All I thought about was eating plenty of food to keep my baby healthy.

Toward the end of my pregnancy, I felt really big - I gained about 40 pounds, which is a lot for my size.

I'd already put on a bit of weight before I got pregnant.

I was voted best-looking kid in high school but, as you can see, things changed. I used to say I was a 260 pound Woody Allen. You can make that 295 pound now.

My most string-beanish, I guess, is when I was 15 years old. From 15 to 16, I went from 155 pounds to 215. By the time I graduated from high school, I was between 235-250.

I don't think that I could fit into the costume anymore.

I started to put on weight when I was about four and a half and it got really bad when I was around nine. I ballooned. I was about 110 pounds.

I'm lucky: I've got one of those fast metabolisms where I can eat whatever I want, and I don't put on weight. But I know that's only when you're young. It'll probably hit me when I'm 30.

When I graduated, I was my biggest ever: 15 stone, with a boyfriend - my first - of just 11 stone. I was 23 years old. It wasn't just affecting my career: it was a health issue as well.

I used to play in the front row, I could eat whatever I want - but I got up to 97 kilograms. And let's remember I'm five foot bloody nothing!

When my face starts to feel chubby, I know there is an issue with my weight.

As time has gone on, I've gotten bigger and bigger. My body composition has changed.

I've always had trouble keeping weight on, or putting weight on as well.

For most of my life, I've put on weight in my thighs, not my belly. But in my mid-40s, things began to change.

You know you're getting fat when your socks don't fit.

A woman gets stretch marks from one of two things. Either she was big and got small or she was small and got big.

For all of my life it was the size of my rear that caused me the most hand-wringing, but in this nearly-50 zone it is my stomach that is the problem. It seems to have broken free from its moorings and there is no knowing how far it will roam.

For the last year and a half, I went from being a crazy workout girl to sort of saying, "My body wants a little bit a of break." So I kind of stay with more simple stuff and taking walks and not being neurotic about working out and eating right. I started to enjoy life a little bit more. The only downside to that is there's that couple extra pounds and about 4,000 pregnancy rumors, but you know, other than that, it feels great.

I don't want to be this skinny.

The soul is not the body and it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body.

So I can say I used to have a waist.

It doesn't matter how big the body, it's what you do with it.

Also, I sort of let my appearance go, to the point where I was maybe ten to seventy pounds overweight.