Cathy Guisewite Quotes

I'm a woman, and every woman wants to be skinnier - unfortunately.

I'm fat! There's nothing else to call it.

I never looked good in a bikini. My legs were too thin.

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

If I could have the discipline to be super-skinny, I would be.

I don't really know why I'm not thinner than I am.

I feel like most actresses kind of have issues in body dysmorphia.

When I was a teenager, I would have tried anything that an actress I liked was doing to get thin.

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.

I'm like every other girl. I have to try really hard my whole life to try to be fit. And I'm super-vain.

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

I don't like the way my arms jiggle.

If I'm being honest that's something that I think to myself every time I go on Instagram - 'Look how skinny she is, I wanna be that skinny', and it's horrible.

Skinny women don't enjoy being told they're skinny nowadays. They enjoy telling you how they got that way, as though starvation were an achievement.

When I was 16, I filmed an episode of 'Full House' where my family goes to Disney World. I remember putting on baggy overalls just to hide my stomach. When I watched it, I was pretty disappointed and bummed out looking at myself... I didn't feel good about my own body.

I don't think I got thin. I think I got healthy.

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

I used to refer to myself as a 'theoretical anorexic,' just as crazy when it came to body image, but saved by a lack of self-discipline. My daughters do everything better than I do - they're smarter, more beautiful, happier. What if they end up better at anorexia, too?

I just don't like my face.

I was bulimic and anorexic for a while, just hating my body. As an actress, I was never thin enough, never pretty enough. My boobs weren't big enough.

I'm never satisfied with the way I look.

I just think women should love themselves more than they do. Because I think - with all the social media stuff - we look at ourselves too much, and we just destroy ourselves when we're way cooler than we know.

I'm not going to lie: I still have days when I walk by the mirror on my way to the shower and think, 'Oh God, I didn't just see that!'

I was never anorexic, so I was never that skinny. I was never bony-bony. But I remember thinking, I don't want to be this skinny.

I'd feel better about myself if I did stomach crunches, but I don't.