Kate Christensen Quotes

When I was doing my research for 'Branded,' I'd meet groups of teenagers and preteenagers or tweens, and they would laugh at a magazine spread in a women's magazine or teen girl magazine and say, 'I'd never buy this outfit. I know these girls are starving themselves.' But they probably would go out and buy the thing eventually.

In New York, if you weigh under 200 pounds and decline so much as a cookie at a co-worker's party, women will flock to your side, assuring you of your appealing physique. This is how skittish we are about the dangers of anorexia and the pressures of body image.

When I was larger, people said I was fat. Now that I've lost weight, they say I died.

Who would have thought that the girl who was forced to go to the hospital because she's so skinny would one day be called too fat?

Any people whose lives are about the way they look, whether it's fat or thin, are in a dangerous area.

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.

The waist is a terrible thing to mind.

I'm really tired, incredibly tired of hearing people say that fashion is behind anorexia.

I am shocked as to how much importance my weight garners in the world we live in. I don't know why it is so important, to be honest.

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.

No one comments if they think a man has lost weight or if they think he needs to eat more.

It's sad to hear that 1 in 3 girls have an eating disorder, because they're trying to be something that they think they need to be, when it's such a lie that they believe. Meanwhile all over the world there's people that are starving or dying of something crazy that we forget, and we think we're the only ones in this world.

When women are excited about a date, they go immediately on a diet, because all women know they are hideously obese.

I think fashion can have a very negative impact on young people who feel they have to be thin. I am not part of that trend. There is so much pressure on teenage girls.

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.

I'd kill myself if I was as fat as Marilyn Monroe.

I had spent my entire career not wanting to talk about weight, not wanting to deal with it, wanting to be an actor first.

In this business, there is an insane amount of pressure, spoken and unspoken, to be thin. If you look at some of the television shows, eating disorders become like a competitive thing.

For someone to say I am overweight is completely ridiculous.

What is this drive to be thinner, prettier, better dressed, other? Who exactly is this other and what does she look like beyond the jacket she's wearing or the food she's not eating? What might we be doing, thinking, feeling about if we didn't think about body image, ever?

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

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

I think my anorexia was to do with being a teenager, not being in films.

So I've never in my whole life really been teased about my weight.

I don't think it's good to constantly talk about your own weight and the fact that you look fat in jeans.