In 'New Girl,' the character Cece, played by Hannah Simone, is known to tell it how it is. As it turns out, character and actress aren't too dissimilar.

"Curvy is just a polite way of saying fat. And I'm not," Simone notes in an interview for the April issue of the Canadian women's magazine Glow. "Curvy and voluptuous-that one also got dragged through the mud, that poor word. It really just means a woman with breasts. [But] I'm confident with my body."

The 32-year-old former model also talked about feeling grateful to the show's creator and executive producer Liz Meriwether.

"I remember thanking Liz, and saying, 'You've no idea what you've done, that you've put this Indian actress in this visible role, where it's not about her ethnicity,'" she told Glow, adding, "It's an incredibly exciting time to be a comedic actress. There is this demand for smart, funny, attractive women."

Simone, who has occasionly been called "curvy," and "shapely" is not the first woman to find offense with the term.