It's okay to be fat. So you're fat. Just be fat and shut up about it.

In Roseanne Barr’s blunt, confrontational comic style, the line rejects shame and self-pity around body size at the same time. It frames fatness as a neutral fact—something that can be acknowledged without moral panic or constant commentary—while also criticizing the social script that demands either apology or performative suffering. The provocation (“shut up about it”) can be read as a push toward self-acceptance and living one’s life without seeking permission, but it also risks sounding dismissive of the real stigma and discrimination fat people face. The quote’s force comes from that tension: empowerment through refusal to be defined by others’ judgments, delivered as abrasive anti-sentimentality.