Mary Quant Quotes

For the first time ever, overweight people outnumber average people in America. Doesn't that make overweight the average then? Last month you were fat, now you're average - hey, let's get a pizza!

How much obesity has to be created in a single decade for people to realize that diet has to be responsible for it?

I just don't like being overweight.

If you've stacked on the weight over time, and if you don't have any health issues, you don't realise. So you'll see yourself in the mirror and, yes, you know what the scales say, but you don't actually see what other people see.

Of course there are fat French women. There are fat people everywhere.

I'm only 5ft 2in so a significant increase in weight is really going to be noticed.

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

By the age of 18, I was very fat. My dad would say there's a Spall fat gene. But I was fat because I ate loads. I used to go and buy six or seven chocolate bars and eat my way through them.

When I was in high school I was 250 pounds.

I'm kind of fat.

It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.

Obesity among young Americans is a serious problem that can have serious ramifications in the long run.

Almost everything I do is related to being fat.

The number of kids affected by obesity has tripled since 1980, and this can be traced in large part to lack of exercise and a healthy diet.

The interesting thing about overeating or being obese is there's this physical manifestation of it.

Because I was always a fat child, I got fatter and fatter, and I ended up 18 stone and with a 40-inch waist.

I've been overweight all my life.

I weighed 245 pounds when I was 16 years old. I had a 44-inch waist. And that was two years before 'Dukes of Hazzard' started.

I weighed 25 stone, and I didn't stand nine feet tall, so the weight didn't sit well on me. As big as a house? No. I was as big as an estate.

If you walk down the street, within five minutes you will see someone who is morbidly obese or obese.

I can gain 20 pounds in a heartbeat.

Everybody is getting a little bigger nowadays.

If you see 'Pollock,' I weighed almost 270 pounds.

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

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!