Gabourey Sidibe Quotes

My reality is never going to be stick-skinny.

To go from hating the way I looked to being a 'Cosmo' centerfold is a profound honor.

There are more important things in life than being thin, anyway men prefer women with a bit of meat.

I'm a woman, and every woman wants to be skinnier - unfortunately.

I'm comfortable with being a voluptuous woman because I'm not going to be a size two and that's ok with me.

Thin people are beautiful, but fat people are adorable.

I spent my whole single life trying to be thin just to find someone who'd love me once I got fat.

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 don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.

I've never been a size zero, let me say that here and now. I've never been that sort of person.

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 certainly used to wish that I was skinny, lighter-skinned, with long, pretty hair. But only because I used to get made fun of for being the absolute opposite. I didn't see all of that stuff as the American Dream. I just wanted to look normal. Now that I'm older, I really do feel like I am a beautiful girl.

Personally I think women look better with a bit of chub on them.

I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, 'Well you're never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don't even try.' I mean, I care about being pretty, but it's not my most valued thing.

Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.

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

I am an unconventional beauty. I grew up in a high school where if you didn't have a nose job and money and if you weren't thin, you weren't cool, popular, beautiful. I was always told that I wasn't pretty enough to be on television.

I don't want to be about the way I look - my body, my hair, my makeup, all those boring things.

Women's bodies are amazing; what our bodies can do is incredible, so it's sad that we get distracted - all this stuff about being skinny, be this, be that - they're all distractions.

Eve wasn't a size 6 and neither am I.

I have never understood the clamour for waif-like women whose flesh acts merely as a thin veil for their bones - much as I would love to be thinner, I would hate to take it so far that I had no actual shape at all.

We've going to bring back thighs. Enough of these size zeros. Thighs, and back fat, and over-the-belt fat, it's all got to come back again, and we're the ones to do it.

I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.

My curves are not crazy.

I think it's better to be a woman with some curves. It's more natural.