Daily Inspiration Quote by Delta Burke

“Eve wasn’t a size 6 and neither am I” is Delta Burke doing two things at once: puncturing a beauty myth and refusing to apologize for taking up space in public. The line works because it hijacks the oldest origin story in the West and uses it as a blunt instrument against a very modern obsession. If even Eve, the symbolic “first woman,” wasn’t built to fit a retail fantasy, then the demand that contemporary women shrink into a sample size starts to look less like “health” and more like social control dressed up as lifestyle advice.

Burke’s intent is pointedly defensive, but not meek. It’s a clapback with theology as a punchline: she’s not arguing about calories, she’s arguing about legitimacy. The subtext is that women’s bodies are treated as moral projects - evidence of discipline, desirability, worthiness - and that the “acceptable” body keeps getting narrower, literally and culturally. By naming “size 6,” she targets the arbitrary precision of it all: a number that pretends to be neutral while functioning like a gatekeeping code.

Context matters because Burke became a high-profile flashpoint for body policing in late-80s/early-90s entertainment culture, when tabloid cruelty and TV glamour worked in tandem. The quote lands as a boundary line: I exist outside your measurement system, and I’m done negotiating. It’s not just body positivity before it had a brand; it’s a demand to stop confusing thinness with virtue.