Camryn Manheim Quotes

I'll always be a fat girl and I am happy with that.

I really worshipped Mama Cass a lot. Mama Cass, who was really fat and she didn't lose weight. Yeah, she went on diets but for the most part of her life and the better part of her career she was a big person.

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.

You can be fat and love yourself. You can be fat and have a great damn personality. You can be fat and sew your own clothes. But you can't be fat and healthy.

It's okay to be fat. So you're fat. Just be fat and shut up about it.

I am not a member of Fat Liberation, nor do I think that obesity is healthy. But I do believe that in many ways my life has been a more charmed and happy one because I was always large.

On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people.

I can't change my bra size. They're natural! I can work out and I can stay healthy and motivated, but I can't change some things. I really just live my life. I love my body. It's what God gave me! I feel confident with myself, and if that inspires other women to feel confident with their bodies, great.

I've always been an overweight girl, and I've never had an issue with that. I'm very comfortable with my body.

I am an Asian woman. I am a size 12 Asian woman. I have been a size 18 Asian woman. I have been a size 6 Asian woman. I have been a size 18 disabled Asian woman.

Being bikini-ready for me is wherever I am at.

I'm fat, and I support fat celebrities, like Oprah.

Check out my pictures. I'm fat. You know what I mean? But I love it. I love it. I'm a fat dude.

I'm not skinny, and I like that.

Many companies and publications don't understand what it means to be body positive or what it means to be plus-size. They're just trying to capitalize on the term because it's a hot topic.

'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' and Paula are alternatives to what we, as plus-size women in America, have been told is our narrative, which is, you should be hating yourself or hating others for how you look.

Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, 'You've got such a pretty face; why don't you lose some weight?' Over the years I've realised that my body is a certain type, and I have learned to accept it.

Reclaiming the word 'fat' was the most empowering step in my progress. I stopped using it for insult or degradation and instead replaced it with truth, because the truth is that I am fat, and that's ok. So now when someone calls me fat, I agree, whereas before I would get embarrassed and emotional.

I'm curvy and wholesome.

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

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

I like having curves - I'm proud of them!

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

I love my body because it's what I've been given. Being too thin is just as unhealthy as being obese.

There is no ideal body. It's just taking what you have and working it.