The Clothes Make the Girl (Look Fat)? Quotes

“The reality was my life wasn't miserable because I was curvy; I was miserable because I thought I'd be happier if I were thinner.”
― Brittany Gibbons, The Clothes Make the Girl (Look Fat)?: Adventures and Agonies in Fashion – A Hilarious Memoir and Self-Help Guide for Curvy Women on Body Image and Style

“The plus-size sticker on the bag was deceiving. This dress wasn’t an American plus size . . . the kind of plus size that comes from stress, depression, and McRibs. It was the kind of plus size that comes from China, where a 5X is a U.S. size 8.”
― Brittany Gibbons, The Clothes Make the Girl (Look Fat)?: Adventures and Agonies in Fashion

“We don’t have a style because we’ve never really had the option to develop a style. We’ve developed coping mechanisms . . . there’s a difference.”
― Brittany Gibbons, The Clothes Make the Girl (Look Fat)?: Adventures and Agonies in Fashion

“First, most fat women don’t get the luxury of shopping in a real store, all our shit has to be ordered online, a Jesus candle lit when it ships, and then tried on in an empty dark bedroom with the air conditioner blasting to fifty degrees. We all know this. Second, you’re assuming any of us know how to dress ourselves, and some switch is magically going to flip back on inside us like, duh, I guess I do like belts to hit at my natural waist.”
― Brittany Gibbons, The Clothes Make the Girl (Look Fat)?: Adventures and Agonies in Fashion

“I don't want to die, go to heave, and when St. Peter asks me if I had fun, have my answer be, 'No, but I tried really hard to make sure everyone else did”
― Brittany Gibbons, The Clothes Make the Girl (Look Fat)?: Adventures and Agonies in Fashion – A Hilarious Memoir and Self-Help Guide for Curvy Women on Body Image and Style

“I am done wearing clothes to make other people feel comfortable at the expense of my womanhood.”
― Brittany Gibbons, The Clothes Make the Girl (Look Fat)?: Adventures and Agonies in Fashion – A Hilarious Memoir and Self-Help Guide for Curvy Women on Body Image and Style

“Real women, for the record, are not defined by their curves, thigh gaps, or chest size. Those are just things generally used to make us feel bad about ourselves and have nothing to do with our label or worth as women.”
― Brittany Gibbons, The Clothes Make the Girl (Look Fat)?: Adventures and Agonies in Fashion