Quotes from Chrissy Metz

I look in the mirror, and I'm a plus-size girl, but I got it going on.

I have revered Mandy Moore for so long, and I just love her, and she's just, like, a perfect human.

Sometimes I feel like I'm two people. I'm proud of who I am as a person, but I do want to be at a healthy weight.

I kept auditioning, with no savings and no money, credit card debt gaining interest. I went on unemployment. I bought ramen noodles at dollar stores. I never had to - God forbid - live on the streets.

I started coming into my own at 30, discovering what's important to me, not caring what other people think.

The way I stand up to bullies is with kindness and love. Because I think that's what they really need. They're misunderstood and probably really upset themselves.

I carry a lot of my weight in my stomach. I just want to have... not even a number, but to have my body in a different shape.

It's very strange. I can't go anywhere without somebody stopping me, which is so cool that I get to connect to people that I never might've ever spoken to, or they have an impetus to speak to me. It's created a career that I wasn't sure if I'd ever really have.

My parents divorced when I was eight; I never really knew my dad, and my mom raised my older sister and brother and me alone. It was challenging.

When I first heard 'Harper's Bazaar' wanted me to be sexy, I was like, 'Who, me?' I knew y'all were edgy, but this is incredible - it's validation.

I remember being a kid and always feeling a little different than all my friends.

I don't have to have a man in my life, and I think men are attracted to that.

I try to be present in the moment and to be authentic, and to listen.

At the end of the day... my love for my body... comes from within.

When I turned 30, I had this epiphany that my life is my own and my choices are my own.

I want to have a fit, healthy body and not have to be put in a box. I don't want to be limited by anything.

If I ever end up on the worst-dressed list, it's not going to make me fall apart.

So much of the mainstream media has taught us what beauty is, but everyone is beautiful.