Tom Shales Quotes

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

Being fat worked, and I think that was what was confusing for me for a long time in my career.

I only feel better because people aren't being so abusive to me about my weight.

In New York, if you weigh under 200 pounds and decline so much as a cookie at a co-worker's party, women will flock to your side, assuring you of your appealing physique. This is how skittish we are about the dangers of anorexia and the pressures of body image.

I don't like how I have to always be judged for my weight - I hate that.

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.

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

Being too thin. Being bigger. I've been criticized for being on both sides of the scale.

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

I was just sick of being fat, you know? You get sick of it. It just really, it's a tiring lifestyle to have.

As I was growing up, it was made clear that the fat me wasn't welcome, that a thin person was expected and awaited, and impatiently so.

When I was in middle school and high school, I was over 100 pounds overweight.

My weight is this permanent topic that just doesn't fade away. Most days, I am fine with people talking about it. That doesn't bother me as much as how people use the fact to promote their own ventures.

My weight fluctuates, just like any other person's does, and there will always be critics.

When women are excited about a date, they go immediately on a diet, because all women know they are hideously obese.

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.

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'm no stranger to weight issues. I've had cellulite since I was about nine years old. I have enjoyed the uber support of Spanx many times.

I've always been the porky boy in my head.

Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.

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

I'm kind of fat.

When I was larger, people said I was fat. Now that I've lost weight, they say I died.

Some of my battles with weight have been very public. But most of them have been internal. Even at my thinnest, when my body was being praised, I wasn't happy with what I saw in the mirror or how I felt about myself.

Almost everything I do is related to being fat.