“I'm not a size zero, I'll never be a size zero, and the number of fucks I give about that is zero.”— Lauren Gallagher, amazon.comTagged: size, Weight
“When we lose twenty pounds, we may be losing the best twenty pounds we have! We may be losing the pounds that contain our genius, our humanity, our love and honesty.”— Woody Allen, books.google.comTagged: Weight, losing weight, Love, Honesty
“I’m not going to miss 95% of life to weigh 5% less.”— Dan Pearce, amazon.comTagged: Life, Weight, losing weight
“I scroll through iPhone photos and see that if I delete pictures of myself with a double chin, I will erase all proof of my glorious life.”— Helen Ellis, amazon.comTagged: heavy, Life, Weight, size
“There is no dictionary in the world that includes the words ’skinny’ or ‘fat’ under the definitions of ‘beautiful’ and ‘ugly’. So, focus on being healthy and stop the self-criticism.”— Maddy Malhotra, amazon.comTagged: fat, thin, ugly, Beautiful
“I have a body, but I am not my body. I have a face, but I am not my face.”— Iyanla Vanzant, amazon.comTagged: Body, face, Personality, looks
“I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon.”— Ellen Degeneres, amazon.comTagged: food, eating, Weight
“A scale can tell what a body weighs, but not its value.”— Marty Rubin, amazon.comTagged: Scale, Weight, Value
“If someone called me chubby, it would no longer be something that kept me up late at night. Being called fat is not like being called stupid or unfunny, which is the worst thing you could ever say to me. Do I envy Jennifer Hudson for being able to lose all that weight and look smokin’ hot? Of course…”— Mindy Kaling, amazon.comTagged: Weight, losing weight, chubby
“My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped.”— Drew Barrymore, books.google.comTagged: Body, Health, Weight, size
“To all the girls that think you're fat because you're not a size zero, you're the beautiful one, its society who's ugly.”— Marilyn Monroe, books.google.comTagged: beauty, size, Society
“Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don't take it off until you're thirty-four.”— Nora Ephron, amazon.comTagged: Regret, beauty, clothing
“'Fat’ is usually the first insult a girl throws at another girl when she wants to hurt her. I mean, is ‘fat’ really the worst thing a human being can be? Is ‘fat’ worse than ‘vindictive’, ‘jealous’, ‘shallow’, ‘vain’, ‘boring’ or ‘cruel’? Not to me.”— J.K. Rowling, books.google.comTagged: fat, Criticism, Weight, Personality
“It's too bad we're not all teddy bears. More stuffing would only make us cuter and cuddlier.”— Richelle E. Goodrich, amazon.comTagged: Weight, size, fat
“Say bye-bye to feeling bad about your looks. Are you ready to stop colluding with a culture that makes so many of us feel physically inadequate? Say goodbye to your inner critic, and take this pledge to be kinder to yourself and others. This is a call to arms. A call to be gentle, to be forgiving, t…”— Oprah Winfrey, books.google.comTagged: Criticism, Weight, beauty, Insecurities
“A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.comTagged: beauty, thin, Weight, obedience
“Even the models we see in magazines wish they could look like their own images.”— Cheri K. Erdman, amazon.comTagged: models, beauty, photoshop
“By choosing healthy over skinny you are choosing self-love over self-judgment.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.comTagged: healthy, thin, Self-Love, self-judgment
“Fat-bashing in all its varied forms–criticism, exclusion, shaming, fat talk, self-deprecation, jokes, gossip, bullying–is one of the last acceptable forms of prejudice. From a very young age, before they can walk away or defend themselves, women are taught that they are how they look, not what they…”— Robyn Silverman, amazon.comTagged: body shaming, bullying, Weight, Women
“I stuff another handful of Raisinets in my mouth. What gets me is the 'pretty face' bit. 'Cause I won't mind being reminded I'm fat as long as you water it down first. Why not say, Hey I'm going to insult you, but first I will congratulate your fortunate genetics and appropriate application of Bobbi…”— Jen Lancaster, amazon.comTagged: heavy, Weight, size, beauty
“Eating is not a crime. It’s not a moral issue. It’s normal. It’s enjoyable. It just is.”— Carrie Arnold, amazon.comTagged: eating, Weight, food
“Body acceptance means, as much as possible, approving of and loving your body, despite its ‘imperfections’, real or perceived. That means accepting that your body is fatter than some others, or thinner than some others, that your eyes are a little crooked, that you have a disability that makes walki…”— Golda Poretsky, amazon.comTagged: thin, heavy, Weight, Acceptance, Self-Love
“Women are perfectly aware of any spare-tire, muffin-top bulge they may have. The last thing we need is a stranger reminding us that they're aware of it too.”— Olive B. Persimmon, amazon.comTagged: Women, Weight, Criticism
“Always remember, that you are the most beautiful woman in the world. Your weight, your height, your eyes, your scars, your idiosyncrasies, your complexion, and your sartorial choices have nothing to do with beauty. The mirror lies darling. It does. Your heart is where all the beauty rests. And of co…”— Manprit Kaur, amazon.comTagged: beauty, Weight, Insecurities
“I'll never be the size that has single digits and my thighs will always touch when I walk but I'm ok with that.”— Sugar Jamison, amazon.comTagged: size, Weight, Scale
“I am, for some reason, actually happy with who I am and the muscle, the bones, and the flub that exist beneath these clothes. I don’t need to lose 20 lbs. to be attractive. I don’t need to starve myself of the good things of life to be healthy. And, I don’t need to chase someone else’s ideal of what…”— Dan Pearce, amazon.comTagged: Weight, Self-Love, beauty
“Mámá was fond of saying that nothing tastes as good as skinny feels—an aphorism I was pretty sure she'd cribbed from the thinspiration sites she subscribed to online—but I believed that anyone who said such things had never tasted chili-cheese fries with melted cheddar, fresh ground beef, and Tapati…”— Nenia Campbell, amazon.comTagged: food, thin, eating, Weight
“I’ve been chained to my bathroom scale for two decades now. I’ve used the number on my scale to tell me if I’m valuable or not. I’ve let the number on my scale destroy many beautiful opportunities in my life such as scheduling family photos, having fun at the beach, or giving myself 100% in intimacy…”— Dan Pearce, amazon.comTagged: Self-Love, Weight, Scale, Value, beauty
“That’s the key, you know, confidence. I know for a fact that if you genuinely like your body, so can others. It doesn’t really matter if it’s short, tall, fat or thin, it just matters that you can find some things to like about it. Even if that means having a good laugh at the bits of it that wobble…”— Dawn French, amazon.comTagged: Confidence, thin, heavy, Self-Love