Jami Attenberg Quotes

I'm learning a lot about the culture of weight loss. I didn't know there were bloggers out there who were proud to be fat.

I think there's a bias against fat people on network television.

People think that, somehow, size makes you uncoordinated or incompetent. There is a lot of size discrimination out there, and I see the difference in the way people treated me when I was 360 pounds versus how they treat me when I'm 290 - from the industry to day-to-day people on the street.

I had so many agents tell me that at size 18, I would never work or work again. I heard, 'Go home and lose some weight.'

When I try to get work in the US all they say is that I need to lose weight - but I bet they never said that to Mae West.

I just have a real problem with people who seek to portray fatness or thinness as moral concepts.

I don't like to use the words 'real women,' honestly. I like to use the word 'woman.' And I say that because there are so many women out there who are naturally thin or are naturally curvy, and I think when we start putting a label on the type of woman, it gets misconstrued and starts to offend people.

I am fully aware of what the word 'fat' means ... It's a swear word. It's a weapon. It's a sociological subspecies. It's an accusation, dismissal, and rejection.

I'm not skinny for the wrong reasons. It's not because I'm bulimic or anorexic or doing drugs. Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight.

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.

I think calling me 'full-figured' is just rude.

There are varied experiences of overweight women throughout the country; there's not just one experience.

Our idea of a healthy body is so destabilised that insecure people have come to bolster their own bodies by deeming others - those with fat bodies - less worthy, less capable and less employable.

'Curvy' is just a polite way of saying 'fat.'

I am, uh... a 6 foot tall woman, I feel like I'm a healthy size, I'm not anorexic; and I feel that people who aren't anorexic are punished... for not being anorexic.

Even in normal life, I'm not the skinniest model.

I've always been a thin girl. I'm not going to be fat, ever. Let's get that straight. Whitney is not going to be fat, ever. Okay?

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

I know the pain of somebody who's too thin and the pain of somebody that people say is too big.

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

My weight is something that people seem to talk about a lot.

The pressure on women to be thin is like a plague. I have gone through my life, like a lot of women, rating my experiences on the basis of, 'Was I thin at that time or fat?' And it doesn't seem to let up.

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.

The waist is a terrible thing to mind.