Henry Beard Quotes

There is nothing offensive about the word 'obese.' It is a descriptor of a person's weight.

When I go to my constituency - in fact, when I walk around - you can almost now tell somebody's background by their weight.

For the first time ever, overweight people outnumber average people in America. Doesn't that make overweight the average then? Last month you were fat, now you're average - hey, let's get a pizza!

I don't weigh a pound over one hundred and eighty and, what's more, I never did.

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.

My natural weight is 13 st. 7 lb. That's what I walk around at.

I use the word 'fat'. I use that word because that's what people are: they're fat. They're not bulky; they're not large, chunky, hefty or plump. And they're not big-boned. Dinosaurs were big-boned. These people are not overweight: this term somehow implies there is some correct weight... There is no correct weight. Heavy is also a misleading term. An aircraft carrier is heavy; it's not fat. Only people are fat, and that's what fat people are! They're fat !

It's better to be skinny than to be fat.

I don't like how I have to always be judged for my weight - I hate that.

When I was thin, I had no notion of what being fat is like. When I worked in a department store, I had sold clothes to women of most sizes, so I should have known; but perhaps you have to experience the state from the inside, to understand what fat is like.

My ideal weight is 205, actually.

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

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

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.

Right now I'm 185, which is really good for me yet very hard for me to maintain. My weight seems high for the average woman, but I've got big bones and I'm maintaining muscle.

The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.

My goal is just to get healthy as far as what my ideal weight has to be for my height.

We can all put weight on or lose weight.

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.

When you have a fat friend there are no see-saws, only catapults.

Almost every woman I have spoken to about pregnancy has a story about her doctor giving her a hard time about her weight. Later in my pregnancy it felt like all of my time with my doctor was focused on how fat I was getting - so fat!

I will tell you that when I was heavy, people would say to me - and it was such a backhanded compliment - they would say, 'You've got such a beautiful face,' in the way of, like, 'Oh, isn't it a shame that from the neck down you're questionable.'

I'm 300 pounds. If I fall on anybody, it's going to hurt.

I'm a stocky 210 pounds.