Camille Kostek Quotes

The pressure was if I didn't get into that dress size someone else would - someone else would get the job.

Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.

Most female models don't have any muscle mass.

You see your peers weighing 80 pounds and you think, 'Oh, my God, I've got to be 80 pounds or I'll fail.'

Body image is something that girls struggle with every day, and it's something that I struggle with every day.

When I started modeling, I was definitely heavier. I was quite voluptuous in fact. I had a real baby face and baby fat. But I was a baby! I was told I had to get into better shape, but I'm quite stubborn so I didn't.

I was raised to be self-conscious about weight. Then as I got older and started doing television, it became a career issue, like, 'You have to lose weight or you'll lose that job.'

Nobody wants a fat lead singer.

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.

There's always going to be a part of me that worries about not looking as slim as other actresses.

Outside every thin woman is a fat man trying to get in.

I was my thinnest when doing 35 fashion shows a week in different countries because I didn't have time to eat. I've never bought the idea that models in fashion magazines cause readers to have anorexia and bulimia. And you can't be a model if you've got those conditions anyway, because you'll get acne and hair all over your body.

I absolutely didn't think, 'I am really fat, I must get thinner.'

I have seen actresses avoiding food out of fear that beauty would be lost.

I was called 'fat' 200 times on shoots and had serious trouble fitting in the clothes at fashion shows. All these things break you down to a point where you look in the mirror and don't like what you see.

In this industry, it's sad that a superficial thing like weight loss can actually define your career, but if that is the case, so be it.

What do they want me to do, get lipo? I'm just big boned. There's nothing I can do.

The societal obsession with appearance is definitely something that weighs on your mind as a model.

In this industry, there's a massive pressure to be a certain weight.

I have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them.

I've talked to so many people, men and women alike, that get overweight and their self-esteem just goes in the tank. They think they're judged. They think they're unattractive.

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.

The first entry into modeling doesn't build your confidence. They pull out the tape measure and pick you apart. I'm a curvy woman, so I was definitely told I was 'too curvy.'

If Kevin James or Paul Giamatti drop weight, I'm done. I don't want to be the last pudge out there.

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.