obesity stigma Quotes

I've done everything every fat person ever has. I've tried every diet.

I've been fat since fourth grade and bullied for it, but I still knew I couldn't represent every kids' experience.

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

Uh, stay fat people - That's my motto. It's no picnic!

You think people hate a fat person? Try a fat person who's trying to get thin.

[On being overweight:] If I tried to haul ass, I would have to make two trips.

Obesity is the result of a loss of self-control. Indeed, loss of self-control might be said to be the defining social (or anti-social) characteristic of our age: public drunkenness, excessive gambling, promiscuity and common-or-garden rudeness are all examples of our collective loss of self-control.

We have to stop judging people who are struggling with their weight.

I live in California, the worst place in the world for fat people. There are three of us. They have us on eight-hour shifts, so it works out.

All fat women look the same; they all look 42.

I'm not in a position to tell heavy people anything.

Fat girls aren’t real people.

It's terrible, the way obese children and adults are treated in this country [USA]. And I'm not leaving this Earth until that is changed.

I don't think it's a good advert for any restaurant, a fat chef, and secondly, who wants to eat a dessert when the chef's a fat pig.

All my life I've been an obese man trapped inside a fat man's body.

All my brothers were skinny with a gut. Bone-thin with a bit of a pooch. That's what I fight against.

I think the U.S. has ultrasensitivity about weight loss.

Would I employ you if you were obese? No I would not. You would give the wrong impression to the clients of my business. I need people to look energetic, professional and efficient. If you are obese you look lazy.

I don't believe consumers want to see fuller-figured girls in ads. Because if they did they would refuse to buy the things they are seeing, and want to buy a different product. If people really want to see a change, they have to speak up on a daily basis to see that change. And I think that models who are suffering from an eating disorder, it is as sad to look at them as the person who is suffering from obesity or who is smoking outside their office or person who is drinking too much at the bar - everybody is suffering from something pretty much.

Everyone knew that fat had become the new cancer, yet they bellyached about the dieting hysteria and applauded the "real" women's body. As though doing no exercise and being overfed was some kind of sensible mold.

Being slim is the new elitism. Thinness today says that you are richer, smarter and more successful than the overweight masses.

The parents are the issue, because it's not the kids' fault. They're the ones on the playground getting the s - and the jokes and the bullying, because of their size and they're obese. It's not the kids, it's the f - ing parents.

I have a fierce eating disorder that has survived even bariatric surgery. I got even fatter after that! Hey, maybe fat people are just trying to get closer to others, did anybody ever that of that?!

In L.A., fat people are mythical. We're like Big Foot. 'Oh, yeah, my cousin knows someone who's fat.' Nobody's fat in L.A.

You take away the handicap of obesity, and this person becomes someone else. Take a jolly fat man for instance. You talk to him, and his heart is breaking. He wants to be thin.