Claire Fox Quotes

I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.

If you walk down the street, within five minutes you will see someone who is morbidly obese or obese.

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

I think overweight people are lazy and that they are bankrupting the country.

I've always been a big guy. I weighed 220 pounds in the 5th grade.

Yes, I'm doing damage to my body now. The human body isn't designed to be this size.

I got to 16st when it became painful for me to walk.

I love the way my weight fluctuates in the newspapers. It was 18 stone and then people look at a bad picture of me and add a few more stone on. I think the highest was 22 stone.

I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.

My weight can swing by four stone.

I had gone to the doctor. The doctor said, 'You're healthy as a horse. You've got two weight problems - two health problems because of your weight. Please do something.'

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

When I was in high school I was 250 pounds.

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!

The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk.

There's no reason that America should be No. 1 in obesity; we have the greatest country in the world.

I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so.

When you struggle with weight, it's not an internal struggle... it's literally an external struggle, and everyone sees it.

It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.

Obesity among young Americans is a serious problem that can have serious ramifications in the long run.

I have always had a problem with my weight.

Sugar is the new tobacco.

At 9 years old I weighed about 10 lbs. less than what my weight is at 32. I needed to get help.

Commercials are not the only exposure that obesity gets on TV. It is by no means a rarity on the wonderful Judge Judy's show when both plaintiff and accused all but literally fill the screen.

I weighed 25 stone, and I didn't stand nine feet tall, so the weight didn't sit well on me. As big as a house? No. I was as big as an estate.