Love Quote by Camryn Manheim

Manheim isn’t praising confidence as a cute personality trait; she’s naming it as a hard-won skill forged under surveillance. “Large women” here isn’t euphemism, it’s a category society treats like a public issue, something to comment on, manage, mock, or medicalize. By centering women who “walk with confidence,” she points to the daily choreography of occupying space when the culture keeps telling you you’re taking up too much of it.

The line that does the real work is “really have an understanding of how they walk in this world.” That’s not self-help language. It’s an actor’s observation about performance and audience: the world reads bodies before it listens to voices, and fat bodies get read as failures, punchlines, or cautionary tales. “Articulate” matters because it signals refusal to be reduced to a silhouette. It’s a demand to be seen as a full subject, not a before-photo.

Her “I love them so deeply” risks sounding sentimental, but the subtext is solidarity, not patronizing awe. Manheim’s career arrived alongside (and in many ways against) an entertainment industry that policed women’s bodies with brutal consistency, offering fat actresses a narrow menu of roles: the joke, the best friend, the spectacle. In that context, calling their lives “unbelievable odds” is less hyperbole than an indictment. She’s reminding us that for some women, simply moving through a room with poise is already a form of resistance - not because they’re inspirational, but because the culture has made their existence a debate.