Weight Discrimination Quotes

Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you're not going to hire them.

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

I think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I've been cast.

The funny thing is, I don't actually think of myself as fat at all. I don't think I am. Not really.

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

When I go to my constituency - in fact, when I walk around - you can almost now tell somebody's background by their weight.

No one can make fun of overweight people in front of me!

Young adult novels don't shy away from the discussion of weight issues, and 'Blubber,' the tale of an overweight, not-so-sympathetic fifth-grader bullied by her peers, is a refreshing take.

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

I was a dancer, but I was always a little overweight. I'd say, 'Hello, I'm Valerie Harper, and I'm overweight.' I'd say it quickly before they could... I always got called chubby. My nose was too wide; my hair was too kinky.

A big girl once came up to me after a show and said "I think you're fatist." I said "No, no. I think you're fattest."

It sucks being fat, you know.

She's so fat, she's my two best friends.

When people talk about my weight, I'm like, 'You seem to have a problem with it; I don't.'

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.

In the Everybody-Give-Me-A-Hug victim culture in which we live, the obese want a spot at the table along with those who face discrimination based on the way that God or Nature or our Intelligent Designer created us.

Melissa McCarthy just opened this new movie, 'Identity Thief,' and Rex Reed, who's a known critic, wrote a scathing commentary on her weight. I think that weight designation is one of the last frontiers of bullying. I don't know what the right 'ism' for it is, but I think that there's a level of that that's happening that's certainly not okay.

It's difficult to be at events with a room full of women who weigh half as much as you do.

I believe that behind both the person who weighs 400 pounds and the one who weighs 85 there is a lot of baggage, and it has nothing to do with their bodies.

The skinnification of America's jeanscape has gone too far.

So many comics, skinny and fat, make fat jokes.

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

I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people.

For someone to say I am overweight is completely ridiculous.

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.