Chrissy Metz Quotes

I don't go around calling myself a fat girl. It doesn't feel fun to me.

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

Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight.

I hate overweight, because it implies that there's a weight standard I should be adhering to.

Everyone has to realize that body-shaming can happen at any size.

If you grow up fat, you have to try harder.

Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.

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

I sympathize far more with heavier people than I ever will with thin. I'll never be thin. Let's be honest.

'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).

I'm quite a confident person in many ways, but there's only so much you can hear about being compared to Hattie Jacques. For the record, she was a comedy goddess, but she was 25 stone. I hope I'm right in saying I'm not in any way nearly 25 stone.

Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight.

We feel it's unacceptable to be fat, when it has nothing to do with who the person actually is.

The funny thing is, I don't actually think of myself as fat at all. I don't think I am. Not really.

As I was growing up, it was made clear that the fat me wasn't welcome, that a thin person was expected and awaited, and impatiently so.

If someone calls you fat and you are fat, then it will be hurtful only if you feel you should not be fat.

I was a dancer, but I was always a little overweight. I'd say, 'Hello, I'm Valerie Harper, and I'm overweight.' I'd say it quickly before they could... I always got called chubby. My nose was too wide; my hair was too kinky.

I know I'm not fat, but when people keep telling you that, you have to think about it.

I don't want to lose weight to live long or be healthy. I just want to be able to make fun of fat people again and know for sure that they're fatter than me.

I've had people tell me I'm fat, and I'm like one of the smallest people I've met in my life.

Those who fat shame, I want to tell them being happy has nothing to do with body weight but how one leads his or her life.

In school, I was always a fat girl. No matter how thin you are, but girls always have this thing in mind that I am a little fat.

I think, on a frame like mine, if I lose a few pounds, it makes a big difference. I hated every bit of attention on my weight and size. Even now, I can't put into words what exactly happened.

I love the way my weight fluctuates in the newspapers. It was 18 stone and then people look at a bad picture of me and add a few more stone on. I think the highest was 22 stone.