Maxine Peake Quotes

If I was 10st, I would look highly unattractive - it would be damaging to my body.

I always had a weight issue since I was a young kid.

I realized that in those nine seasons I started out at about 225 pounds and I felt, you know, full figured fabulous woman but in those seasons I gained 75 pounds up to over 300 pounds all in front of the nation.

I have always had a problem with my weight.

I kept buying bigger and bigger jeans, and once the size 14s got too tight, I thought, That's it. I'm not buying the next size.

Weight is something I've battled all my life.

I don't want to get fat.

I put the weight on after we were together. I put on about 20 pounds when we got married, and people were flipping their lids. And then I put on more after that, and I've gone up and down since then.

I weighed 245 pounds when I was 16 years old. I had a 44-inch waist. And that was two years before 'Dukes of Hazzard' started.

If you see 'Pollock,' I weighed almost 270 pounds.

I used to play in the front row, I could eat whatever I want - but I got up to 97 kilograms. And let's remember I'm five foot bloody nothing!

I gained weight, and that started a 32-year struggle with weight and exercise and body image problems.

Weight is just not a hot button. In fact, during my life, it probably should have been on my radar screen a bit more. I look back at work photos and am shocked. Was I eating the people I was interviewing?! Good Lord, I was big.

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.

There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary.

It's hard for me to put on weight.

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

I have obsessed about my weight in some sort of way all my life. I used to write in my journal what I weighed every day.

When I was in high school I was 250 pounds.

I've always been pathologically skinny.

I'm kind of fat.

I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.

Because I was always a fat child, I got fatter and fatter, and I ended up 18 stone and with a 40-inch waist.

My weight has been one of the most challenging things that I've had to deal with throughout my career.

If you've stacked on the weight over time, and if you don't have any health issues, you don't realise. So you'll see yourself in the mirror and, yes, you know what the scales say, but you don't actually see what other people see.