She told the Hollywood Reporter, “Unfortunately, in Hollywood, people need to see you differently in order to cast you differently or give you new opportunities. There are always some directors who are not like that, and they can imagine a comedic actress being a serious actress, but others need to see it first. The physical transformation helped with that, for me, but it’s too early to tell still.”

On the Call Her Daddy podcast, she said, “I love doing the roles; I love those characters. But then I did want to do more things, but I felt like, being the bigger girl, you’re just more pigeonholed.”

Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/kristenharris1/actors-called-out-anti-fat-storylines-typecasting