- [Interviewer] How much do you weigh?
- 120 pounds.
- [Interviewer] Is that number important to you?
- No, I don't care about my weight at all.
My favorite favorite food is ice cream.
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- [Interviewer] How much do you weigh?
(scoffs)
(sighs) (scoffs)
- My weight? (laughs)
- [Interviewer] How much do you weigh?
- That's too personal. (laughs)
- Really? - [Interviewer] We're trying
to think of questions that you're not supposed to ask women.
- Really? - You can ask all you want
doesn't mean I'm gonna answer you.
- That I don't wanna share.
- I'm not telling you.
- I don't think it's anyone's business.
I don't even like to know sometimes.
- Weigh? Are you, I would skip. (laughs)
- Ooh, I just checked and it was one-
- 90 pound. - 250 pounds.
- 155 pounds - 183.
- I think it was 150, no.
- 135. - 270.
- 240. - 123, 123.
- [Interviewer] How often do you think about your weight?
- Every time I look in the mirror,
every time I take a shower,
every time I'm picking out my outfit.
- Every time I try on a pair of jeans.
- Whenever I have to buy clothes.
- Every time I want new clothes
because I need to fucking know what the measurements are.
(laughs)
- [Interviewer] Do you think about your weight often?
- No. - Not a lot, actually.
- Not frequently. - Only when people ask.
- [Interviewer] Sorry.
- [Interviewer] How frequently do you think
about your weight?
- Often. - Often.
- Daily. - Daily.
- Everyday. - Everyday.
- Everyday. - Frequently.
- All the time. - Like every day.
- [Interviewer] Is that exhausting?
- It is. - Yeah.
- It's terribly exhausting.
- [Interviewer] How frequently do you think
about your weight?
- Actually, not as frequent as I used to.
- [Interviewer] What changed?
- Just my confidence.
- Since having a baby, I'm learning to love my body,
and accept everything that it has gone through.
- [Interviewer] How much do you weigh?
- I don't know.
- I don't even know.
- I honestly don't know.
- On my license it says 120, but I'm more like 160 now.
- 115.
- I weigh around 320 pounds.
- [Interviewer] Is that number important to you?
- Not really, no.
- No, I don't care about my weight at all.
My favorite favorite food is ice cream.
- I feel like somebody that weighs the same weight as me
would look completely different.
I just think that no matter if we all ate the same diet,
it wouldn't really matter.
- [Interviewer] How much do you weigh?
- 130 pounds.
- 138.
- [Interviewer] Does that number matter to you?
- Little bothering?
- It used to be really important to me.
I used to be really underweight.
I couldn't really pack on weight no matter what I did.
- [Interviewer] How much do you weigh?
- 108 pounds.
For the longest time, I was like just 100 pounds,
100 pounds, 100 pounds.
So now I'm like, I've got more hips,
I've got more butt, you know, things, things that evolved.
- The number matters to me depending on the outfit.
Some days I wake up and I like love myself.
I look at myself I'm like,
"Ooh girl, you did it. You look bomb."
And some days it's like, "We're not eating for a year."
You know, it literally depends on the day,
and that's just me being completely honest.
- Right now, it's more about being healthy.
- I'm a type two diabetic, so I think about my weight
as much as it matters to my health.
- Health wise. - For health.
- I don't think weight matters at all
as long as you're happy and healthy, of course,
and only wanting to lose weight
to make yourself healthier and not skinnier.
- I went from 163 of just never moving, never working out,
to 163 active, and it just feels so different,
but it's the same weight.
- Mostly I focus on like my blood pressure.
You know, how my back's feeling, how my knees are feeling.
- I want to try to do what I can to extend my life.
- 'Cause I'm in my fifties now,
I like to just be physically active and healthy,
and just keep my bones and muscles strong.
- The thing that bothers me is when I lose muscle,
then I get upset.
- I just try to stay consistent in the gym,
as well as just try my best to eat right.
- I think to me, the most important thing is how I feel.
- How I feel.
- The number does not matter, it's how you feel.
- If I feel good, I work out, I'm active.
And as long as I can do that and move my body, I feel fine.
- I just worry about how can my body continue to function?
- Can I do the physical activities that I enjoy?
Those things are important,
but how much I weigh doesn't play into those things?
- [Interviewer] How much do you weigh?
- Woo, chad.
They put all my business out there.
I am 247.
- [Interviewer] How often do you think about that number?
- Every day.
Growing up, I was always like told,
"Oh, you're chunky," or "You're fat".
Like I look back at my old pictures
and I'm like, "I wasn't even fat.
What? I wish I was that size."
- I struggled with my weight, whoa.
Coming to terms with my body
that was really hard for me growing up in a family
where my mom worked out two and a half hours a day,
still does
- A lot of adults in my life commented on it.
- Like I got called names, like all that kind of stuff.
So I would worry a lot about it.
- [Interviewer] How frequently do you think
about your weight?
- I used to a lot when I was like in high school,
or like when I was like in sports.
- I ran cross country in high school.
One of the toxic natures of the sport
is that people kind of like glorify unhealthy eating habits,
and just in a constant mindset of trying to shrink yourself.
- I've struggled with bulimia.
- I had an eating disorder.
- I used to be like 120 pounds,
and it looked like I was really sick,
and it was brought to my attention a lot.
- Now I'm in a place where I just,
I'm comfortable and I'm happy.
- I felt bad about myself for being overweight.
Then as I got older, I realized I kind of actually liked it.
I think that I looked cute chubby.
- I suppose that I have been working
on more body positivity.
- Definitely didn't crawl out of the fat phobia cave
until, honestly, the pandemic.
I think it was that year
of staying inside and getting bigger,
and kind of coming to terms with my own body
in a different way.
- From about 310 pounds right now,
and I am more confident now that I was a hundred pounds ago.
- [Interviewer] Why do you think that is?
- I think now that I'm not trying
to specifically have dudes try to have sex with me,
I truly don't care.
Now I just dress for fashion, and comfort,
and what I feel good in.
- [Interviewer] How much do you weigh?
- Ooh. Now you know, we've been locked up for a whole year.
- I'm 150 right now.
Thanks to COVID.
Thank you, COVID.
- Obviously we all went through a pandemic,
so I did gain a couple.
I'm a little thickie thick nowadays.
(Interviewer laughs)
- [Interviewer] How much do you weigh?
- I think I'm in my 150s, 150s now.
- Around 130 pounds.
- 240 something.
- 179. - 185.
- 248 pounds.
- 169.8. - 152 pounds.
Why do I know? I weigh myself every morning.
- [Interviewer] How come you weigh yourself every day?
- Because I wanna know
if the amount that I ate yesterday had any effect
on what I'm gonna weigh tomorrow. (chuckles)
- As of Monday-
- As of today-
- I just checked the other day.
- Oh my God, I just weighed myself.
- I stepped on the scale and my scale said,
"Bitch, get off." (Interviewer laughs)
- I don't necessarily get on this scale that often.
- I avoid the scale at all costs.
- [Interviewer] Why?
- 'Cause they just don't make you happy.
And it's like life is too short
to do things that don't make you happy.