When I meet large women who walk with confidence and are articulate and really have an understanding of how they walk in this world, I love them so deeply for being able to overcome such unbelievable odds.
From Camryn Manheim
I think the play actually became bigger than me. No pun intended.
It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.
I was scared, because I knew that in the political arena, you have to satisfy so many different types of people at once, and I wasn't sure that I could speak for everybody and be politically correct.
The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.
It's important to me that I look good on television because, let's face it, I'm single, and you want somebody to watch the show and fall in love with you.
For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps.
Almost everything I do is related to being fat.
So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people.
Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.
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