Backgrounds Quote by Caitlin Moran

When you get fat, you get a new personality. You can't help it. Complete strangers ascribe it to you.

— Hilary Mantel

I can't believe I was a fat person for most of my life.

— Ricki Lake

I know I'm not fat, but when people keep telling you that, you have to think about it.

— Cheryl Burke

“Being fat means being left out, scorned, and vilified.”

— Mary Pipher

If you say you're fat, all of a sudden people like you

— Valerie Bertinelli

The awful thing about being fat is you can't get away from it. Everywhere you go, there it is; all round you; hanging and…

— Charlotte Bingham

Fat is merely stored energy. It is a physical state, nothing more and nothing less. It implies zero about your value as a person…

— Jillian Michaels

“I sometimes think of people’s personalities as the negative space around their insecurities. Afraid of intimacy? Cultivate aloofness. Feel invisible? Laugh loud and often.…

— Lindy West

It's a very weird cultural perception that if you're fat you're dumb, that you're lazy or a loser. Clearly, those are the preconditions for…

— Roxane Gay

When I started out as a model, I took things for granted. Because I bagged work thanks to my looks, I didn't give my…

— Bipasha Basu

When I was thin, I had no notion of what being fat is like. When I worked in a department store, I had sold…

— Hilary Mantel

I've been recognized for much of my life but I learned that when I was fatter I am less recognizable so I got fat…

— Rex Chapman