Donna Lynne Champlin Quotes

No one wants to see curvy women.

Obviously I probably have internalized fatphobia about myself and what the world has ingrained in us.

'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' and Paula are alternatives to what we, as plus-size women in America, have been told is our narrative, which is, you should be hating yourself or hating others for how you look.

I did an episode on my talk show on cellulite, and I brought seven women into a dressing room at Nordstrom's in L.A., and we all sat and talked about our cellulite.

You're never too fat for a new purse.

I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.

I'll always be a fat girl and I am happy with that.

Nobody else knew what to do with me because big women are old.

There's no such thing as a standard size movie star, or woman for that matter.

So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people.

I really worshipped Mama Cass a lot. Mama Cass, who was really fat and she didn't lose weight. Yeah, she went on diets but for the most part of her life and the better part of her career she was a big person.

Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight.

It kind of cracks me up when people say I'm hot because I just think that that's a term that I don't have to deal with anymore.

Big women do themselves a disservice when they attempt to become the Righteous Fat (the Righteous Thin are bad enough, all that running around and sweating, somehow believing it means anything).

I am not one of those fat birds who feels miserable because models are thin. Frankly, I feel more insulted by the idea that unless I see other fat birds in fashion magazines, I will be reduced to a sniveling wreck of a human being.

It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.

I think I have broken the mould that actresses have to be extremely thin on screen. All those who are making my weight an issue just prove that people are jealous. These are people who have nothing to do in life except to stare at their computer screens and make comments on us.

I think it's better to be a woman with some curves. It's more natural.

We women are way too hard on ourselves. I don't know who some women are dressing for, but we should be celebrating our bodies.

The main criticism that I get is, 'Aren't you just conforming to a patriarchal standard of beauty?' Well, this is just the body I was given. I didn't do anything to it - it's just my body. But even if I had altered it, that would be fine, too.

To be honest, being a fat girl, when people are telling you you need to eat, it's the biggest thrill of your life.

Sierra' is me being a plus-size woman.

I think the word 'plus-sized' is so divisive to women.

To some, I'm too curvy. To others, I'm too tall, too busty, too loud, and, now, too small - too much, but at the same time not enough.

Bodybuilding helped me to realize that I don't have to look like the girls in the magazines and that it's OK to feel good about my curves.