Cameron Russell Quotes

My aunts still try to fatten me up.

My body back at the Playboy mansion was the most important thing in life back then because we were in the spotlight every minute. We had to look good. The girls who gained the weight, those were the girls who didn't get the work.

I was really fat in school.

I was fat when I was a kid. I was a little chunkier, but that's boring because everyone was fat when they were a kid, right? Didn't we all go through a chubby stage? Mine maybe lasted a little longer - mine went until, like, the end of high school.

Freak diets I don't think work. It's control.

Back in Nebraska, I was known as the fat model - the girl who was pretty for a big girl. My body, like my confidence, has been picked apart, manipulated, and controlled by others who didn't necessarily understand it.

Whenever I over-indulge - usually by eating too much dessert - I see the results in my thighs. The backs of my thighs begin to lose their smoothness as the hints of cellulite threaten to turn them into 'cottage cheese.'

I definitely gain weight, and I'm not naturally thin.

I was a 'straight-size' model from 13 to 16, but I was eventually dropped by the agency because my hips were too big.

As an actress I knew I had to control my weight gain somehow as any director or producer would like to sign in a svelte actress.

I think that's just part of what people do and part of being a female in the media. One day it's, 'Doesn't she look thin,' then the next day, 'She's put on weight.'

I think many people expend a tremendous amount of energy on self-loathing and self-flagellation as well as getting caught in a vicious cycle of dieting and gaining the weight back.

In my family, we were all rather plump as teenagers.

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

I was never thin enough to be a proper model and not big enough to be plus-size.

My chin - I've got another one underneath the first one.

When I was at 205, it was kind of weird eating whatever I want and not getting trimmed and not really being disciplined with my diet. It was kind of weird.

I'm considered a huge model because I'm a size six. But... I had a standard body size for catalogues.

My body structure ensures that if I do not watch what I eat, my weight tends to spiral crazily out of control.

I don't understand why it's not okay to be plus-size. I don't know why people hate that phrase. Many models have built their careers as plus-size women and then suddenly don't want to be called that anymore. But you're still cashing checks from plus-size designers.

I'm 240, and I'm not fat.

I can't put on weight, even though I eat so much and I'm not saying that in a good way because I love curves and I love carbs too.

My costumes are the same measurements they were when I was 19, 20 years old. I eat pizza and ice cream, but whenever I gain three or four pounds, that sets off a red alarm.

I went through a difficult time, gaining 24 pounds in one month. A few haters attacked me online for how I looked, even though the majority of my fans were supportive. Those were the ones that kept me going.

I was called the girl that was 'pretty for a big girl,' 'the fat model.'