“I was what they call ‘skinny fat’ – a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.”
“I used to be very shy. When I first started, I had to go to a casting, and I had to go in a bikini. I thought I was too skinny. But I went in and got the job! And that’s how I started.”
“Me, as a designer who is not exactly skinny, all I want is comfortable clothes.”
“I was naturally skinny and had braces, so I wasn’t a cute model.”
“As a kid, I was super skinny.”
“As an adolescent, Spider-Man was what got me through tough times in terms of being a skinny kid.”
“I grew up a skinny Asian kid who was often ignored or picked on. It stuck with me and branded my soul. As I grew up, I tried to stick up for whoever seemed excluded or marginalized.”
“I guess I’m odd-looking. I’m skinny. But I’m not only skinny – I’m oddly shaped.”
“Honestly, I like everything, boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny.”
“Men don’t really like skinny, do they?”
“Judgment is judgment, whether you’re obese, or too skinny, or not athletic enough.”
“I like either skinny jeans or the ripped, casual, super-sloppy boyfriend jeans. A lot of ripped jeans. They are so early 2000, but they are so cute, I love them. I love surfer jeans, too!”
“Topshop makes the best skinny jeans for my shape. I order online or stock up when I’m back in London.”
“You know what, we’re very skinny in our family.”
“I was skinny and black and didn’t play sports. And I was bullied.”
“I first read about hypnotism at school, and I used to do tricks like getting a really skinny guy to arm wrestle the local bully.”
“I’m not skinny, and I like that.”
“I’ve heard that Bon Iver liked my cover of ‘Skinny Love.’”
“My mom is really skinny, too. I got it from her. I’ve never done yoga before.”
“I was 13 when I reached my present height. I was so skinny I looked like one of those starving people in Africa. The boys in my class would beat me up because I was too tall.”
“Kids called me ‘Skeletor’ as a kid because I was so skinny.”
“They used to call me Cam-bones because I was so skinny.”
“I was very skinny, braces; so I never thought I would be a model.”
“I see girls who are so skinny on the catwalks, and I know so many of them destroy their lives and their family’s lives.”
“In my 10 years, I never put a girl that was too skinny in French ‘Vogue.’”
“I don’t think just being skinny means necessarily anorexic.”
“I didn’t want to get skinny, just strong.”
“Whether you’re tall or shorter, or a little bigger, more curves, skinny – you just have to be proud of what you have, and everyone is beautiful.”
“I think I wanted to be a punk-rocker before I wanted to be anything else. I remember wanting a mohawk, and I wanted to cut the sleeves off of my jean jacket because I used to want to be Dirty Dan from Sha-Na-Na. This is before hip-hop was even around. I had the skinny piano tie. I had it, man.”
“I worked really hard, and I surpassed myself… I didn’t have, visually, what it took. I was not pretty, I had teeth problems, and I was very skinny. I didn’t fit the mold.”
“I was not a good-lookin’ girl. I was extremely skinny. I wasn’t pretty. I wasn’t cool.”
“It amuses me that just because I’m white and always looked skinny, I’m supposed to be unphysical, soft, not tough.”
“My weight fluctuates, and I haven’t always been skinny. I became curvier in my twenties, but I never felt self-conscious about it; going through different periods is all part of being a woman.”
“Everybody knows that, in general, a basketball player needs to be tall and a fashion model needs to be skinny, but how skinny is too skinny?”
“Girls are told they’re not skinny enough, or they hear, ‘She’s old. She’s boring. We’ve had her. She’s not tiny anymore.’ A lot of people don’t take into account the vulnerability of these young girls.”
“I was always such a skinny kid, so I kind of grew up with an ‘I hate skinny’ mentality.”
“Avoid any exercise that is quad-centric. None of my clients come to me because she wants bulkier quads – you aren’t fitting into your skinny jeans with those!”
“I aspire to be an icon in a womanly, healthy way. I don’t want to be some skinny, gaunt model nobody can relate to.”
“I myself identify as a recovering Blockhead. You’d be surprised how many twenty- and thirty-something hipster chicks have the NKOTB skeleton in their closet, albeit artfully concealed by stacks of Ksubi skinny jeans and ironic Judas Priest T-shirts.”
“I don’t get fat, I get skinny.”
“My family called me a wiggle tail because I was a little skinny, wiry kid full of energy.”
“I’m lucky I’m tall and skinny, and I got to model to put myself through college.”
“I was a little, skinny, runt kid, and I decided that bowling was what I was going to do in life.”
“That’s kind of how my jobs have happened over the years. It’s been referrals throughout the creature effects/make-up world. The drawings happen, and they see that it’s a tall, skinny thing, and they go, ‘Let’s get Doug Jones for that.’”
“When I came out to Hollywood in 1985, I thought that I would be sitcom star. I’m a tall, skinny, goofy guy. I thought that I would make a great funny neighbor, or wacky office mate, in a sitcom.”
“I have skinny genes. My mother weighs 90 pounds.”
“It’s important to be fit, but you shouldn’t get too skinny. You need to have curves.”
“I want to wear skinny jeans when I’m in my 70s. Why not? Who cares?”
“I’ve been told to be skinny before – it’s already happened, but it’s up to you to either listen or say no. I’m not listening.”
“I guess I like more of the skinny jeans. I’m not very fond of all the stretch, so I try to avoid too much stretch fabric.”
“There’s a science to ordering potatoes. Are they skinny shoestring or big, fat steak fries? You just have to let your taste buds guide you when deciding what to eat.”
“I was always bigger than the other girls. My sisters are very, very beautiful and very skinny, and I’ve always had a more muscular body. So I grew up with a different mentality.”
“I was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face – or so I was told.”
“I don’t know who decided that skinny was more appealing than not skinny. It seems arbitrary.”
“When I returned to Armenia after four months in Brazil, I was still quite skinny and weak, but I had technique and skill.”
“The last 10 years I have had to bulk up for roles and I’m naturally skinny, so I have eaten and killed so many chickens! I wouldn’t even want to count. I need to balance that out.”
“I want to bulk up. I’m a skinny guy.”
“I remember Googling operations to make my calves slimmer, and I ate only ham for a week to try and become skinny.”
“I’m not a sex symbol. How could I be with these skinny bowlegs?”
“Historically, Hollywood comedy has arrived in skinny envelopes. From fence post Buster Keaton to herky-jerky Jerry Lewis to wiry nerve-bundle Woody Allen to hung-loose Richard Pryor to whippy contortionist Jim Carrey, its comics and clowns have tended to be sliced thin and bendable.”
“I’ve always been a skinny man.”
“My essentials are skinny jeans, loose-fitting tees, big jumpers, and the leather jacket. Everything is black or blue – I don’t own anything colorful.”
“If you are a skinny, baby-faced teenager, the last thing you want to hear is that you’re cute.”
“I was a skinny guy growing up, and I still feel like that same skinny kid.”
“In Los Angeles there’s, like, this awful image because the girls are so skinny. I don’t think it’s attractive whatsoever, and I also think that it gives a bad image to kids that are in their early teens. It’s not healthy.”
“I have to be careful not to get a paunch – I’m so skinny that if I put any weight anywhere, it’d be there, and I don’t like a bulge. I wouldn’t mind if it went on my bosom, but it doesn’t.”
“You grow up skinny in Canada; in working-class Montreal, you’re definitely the underdog.”
“I definitely have hips, and I’m shorter, so I like to make my legs look longer. I’ll wear shorts or pants that elongate my legs. I’m not a tiny, skinny toothpick. I definitely like to show off my waist and my butt.”
“If I run I lose so much weight, which I need because you’re limited on weight when you are a tall driver. And have you seen marathon runners? They’re quite skinny.”
“I’ve always been pathologically skinny.”
“I was 5′ 10 when I was 14, skinny and flat, with huge feet, and I never had a boyfriend.”
“I would always hunch over, I was always taller than the boys. I had the extremely skinny legs… I would double up my socks, those ones from Footlocker, to make my legs look thicker.”
“I hate being skinny and being a little weakling thing.”
“And whatever my weight, I’ve always been skinny from the waist up.”
“I was skinny. I wore thick glasses. I had acne.”
“I’m strong, but my arms are skinny; they’re never going to get big and bulky like a football player.”
“I’m skinny, but a soft skinny. I have strong legs, but my arms are like pea pods with single peas for elbows.”
“All my brothers were skinny with a gut. Bone-thin with a bit of a pooch. That’s what I fight against.”
“I was very skinny and very lanky and kind of awkward. In Puerto Rico, everybody is a little more voluptuous, with these beautiful bodies, and there I was, the skinny, lanky girl.”
“My eyebrows are a mess. They’re skinny; they’re dodgy.”
“In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.”
“Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.”
“I was never anorexic, so I was never that skinny. I was never bony-bony. But I remember thinking, I don’t want to be this skinny.”
“I’d much rather be known as some curvy Kate than as some skinny stick.”
“Women are ‘expected’ to have skinny waists yet still be voluptuous. People surrounding us tell us we need to eat but then look at us in disgust if we cross the invisible line of overeating.”
“My hair was always frizzy. I always wanted to be blonde with lovely straight hair. I was very skinny. I was quite tomboyish, just very quiet. I always wanted to fit in; I just couldn’t.”
“I’ve never said I’m perfect, and I’ve never said I’m a skinny girl.”
“I don’t exercise. I’m skinny-fat. I worry about being too skinny.”
“It’s hard to fight in high heels or even jeans that are too tight. You can’t kick in skinny, skinny jeans.”
“I like guitars in the Fender style because they have skinny necks.”
“I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.”
“I almost exclusively wear skinny jeans. I’m terrified of any other cut of denim.”
“I’m not skinny for the wrong reasons. It’s not because I’m bulimic or anorexic or doing drugs. Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I’m actually overweight.”
“I used to be so twig skinny that I couldn’t eat enough, because I was just naturally skinny. Until I went to China.”
“Me being a skinny guy, I could crawl into the steel pit.”
“I was so tall and so skinny – I was that kid who couldn’t find anything to wear. All the cool kids would have jeans the right length and I would just think, ‘What am I going to do?’”
“You have to stay in shape for dance. I don’t want to be too skinny, but I don’t want to be overweight. I want to be in the middle.”
“A runner needs not just to be skinny but – more specifically – to have skinny calves and ankles, because every extra pound carried on your extremities costs more than a pound carried on your torso. That’s why shaving even a few ounces off a pair of running shoes can have a significant effect.”
“If you’re skinny and you can’t play hockey in Canada, you aren’t left with a lot of options. I was left with running.”
“I have never had skinny arms.”
“I want to do a jean line for boys and girls that are sometimes too skinny to fit into jeans, or sometimes a little bit too husky to fit into some jeans.”
“Keep it simple. Layer your leotard with high waisted skinny jeans, legwarmers, and heels or high boots.”
“I wasn’t always overweight. I was a skinny little punk of a kid with severe asthma. When I got married at the age of 22, I wore a cut-down size eight wedding gown.”
“Of course, I remember when everybody was thin. It wasn’t until I went to America in the Sixties that I saw anyone who wasn’t skinny thin.”
“I’m a U.K. size 8, so not skinny.”
“Sadly, in any industry and in any work-related environment, females always strive to achieve a certain amount of perfection, whether that be skinny or pretty. It’s a constant, in our society.”
“I have a lot of adrenaline. I have a naturally fast system. But I love to eat, and I am not skinny.”
“I don’t why I was bullied. I was quite shy and skinny. Very nerdy, very bookwormish. I think I was just a target.”
“It’s better to be skinny than to be fat.”
“My go-to necktie is jet black, skinny, and simple. It goes with everything. I really like that mod-ish punk look.”
“I’ve realized skinny isn’t necessarily attractive. Guys like girls with curves.”
“I had trouble getting jeans when I was growing up. I had little skinny legs and this booty that came out of nowhere.”
“I am very skinny.”
“As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn’t know that I was skinny.”
“We all get old, but I always say the skinny, pretty girls will be screwed.”
“Honestly, Korean beauty standards are harsh. People are even putting pressure on non-celebrities to be super skinny, and the standards of thinness are just getting worse.”
“Up until the age of 30 I could eat whatever I wanted – I mean, literally, I never put on a pound; if anything, I was criticised in the media for being too skinny.”
“The only thing I daydreamed about was being an opera singer. But I was so skinny and so pathetic that that sort of wasn’t going to happen.”
“I normally go for a skinny jean, but I also wear a lot of flares.”
“I was the first to wear colored skinny jeans.”
“I might wear skinny pants one day; I might wear thrift shop pants the next day.”
“Women’s bodies are amazing; what our bodies can do is incredible, so it’s sad that we get distracted – all this stuff about being skinny, be this, be that – they’re all distractions.”
“You don’t know how pretty you are when you’re young. Just being young is beautiful. And I was astonishingly pretty – you know, very skinny.”
“I am actually 7 foot and and one-half inches tall. I say Seven two because it’s easier. Unlike some tall skinny guys I am really ‘big’ weighing around 350 pounds.”
“I’ve always been thin. If you go back to when we first started I’ve always been skinny.”
“I was a skinny 17-year-old.”
“I’m not a skinny girl. I push it. I’m at the limit of chubbiness at all times, but I’m happy at all times.”
“I’m always like ‘I’m too skinny, I can’t gain weight, even when I try.’ I’d like to try to not let that get to me.”
“I like doing Zumba. I only do it like, once a week. If I did it more often, I would be very skinny.”
“I’m just a skinny kid from Glennville, Georgia. I’m going to the Hall of Fame. Not to the Hall of Very Good. The Hall of Fame.”
“People made fun of my skinny legs.”
“One time, I was young. I was skinny. I was elegant. Getting old is terrible.”
“I grew up as a Polynesian kid in the Polynesian community, and I was this skinny white kid.”
“What is a movie star? A movie star is many things. They can be tall, short, thin, or skinny. They can be Democrats… or skinny.”
“’Skinny’ is only one body type.”
“’Get Skinny’ is my sixth book. I look over the books that I’ve written, and my subject matters are varied, and I write books pertaining to that which I’m dealing with at the moment.”
“I’m all for skinny jeans, a flowing blouse, patterned flats and chunky jewels.”
“My favourite colour is red, but I also like jewel tones and monochrome, while my preferred shapes include A-line skirts and skinny trousers.”
“I’m a skinny kid from Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.”
“I’m the way I am now because I was bullied when I was the lanky, gangly, skinny kid. I was the guy who would flick everybody off, and my middle finger was this skinny, long stick. I got picked on because of that.”
“I don’t have a problem with the stories saying I’m skinny at all.”
“I was very skinny, but that was just my natural build. I always ate sensibly – being thin was in my genes.”
“My elder sister used to get the fashion magazines, and I would go through them and find things I liked and buy fabric and copy them. But I hated what I looked like. I mean, I was sooo skinny.”
“It was hard to get guys to notice me, period, because I was so skinny and all my friends were curvy. Plus, I used to be very nervous in front of guys.”
“I had no idea about nutrition. I thought by eating salads you’ll stay skinny.”
“Timid salesmen have skinny kids.”
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