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I have lived my life in a culture that hates fat people.

Camryn Manheim

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Camryn Manheim
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: March 8
Actor
Actress
Film Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Caldwell
New Jersey
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Life
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Fats
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One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.
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My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their sensibilities
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I can either cross the street, or I can keep waiting for another few years of green lights to go by.
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In my fantasies, I always wanted to play the ingenue, but in reality, in my bones, I am so used to playing the grandmother that I don't feel safe or even sure that I can do it
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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.
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One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.
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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.
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I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school.
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Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language.
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You can either destroy your spirit or you can accept and love yourself just the way you are.
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Almost everything I do is related to being fat.
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I don't get it. I just don't get it. If Art is supposed to imitate Life, why do they want all the actors to be thin? There are fat people in the world. Shouldn't there be a few of us actors to represent them?
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If I were thin, I'd never say 'I am powerless over fudge.' a) I can't believe I actually ever said that. b) Which, of course, isn't to say that I do have any power over fudge. Particularly if it has nuts.
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Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?
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People in this country haven't stopped hating fat people, but they've become more kind to me, since in our culture, even though we hate our fat people, we love our celebrities even more.
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I hate overweight, because it implies that there's a weight standard i should be adhering to
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So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and the most descriptive way to say it.
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On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people
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fashion has always been a little slow in accommodating large women. ... We're not asking for philanthropy here. Wake up, we're fat, we like nice clothes, and we've got cash.
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