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I was fat because my parents were a little fat themselves at that point in their lives, and I ate what they ate.

So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and the most descriptive way to say it.

My parents always wanted me to know why eating healthfully was important to overall performance, probably to drown out my whining for junk food.

By the age of 18, I was very fat. My dad would say there's a Spall fat gene. But I was fat because I ate loads. I used to go and buy six or seven chocolate bars and eat my way through them.

Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim.

Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.

If you grow up fat, you have to try harder.

It's better to be skinny than to be fat.

I'm never going to be fat - never again. I'm going to make it easy on my pallbearers.

I'm sure that my father becoming seriously ill when I was 14 had a lot to do with my going from chubby to fat.