Country singer Jo Dee Messina blasts Nashville label for 'too fat' rejection

"I remember I got turned down by a record label in Nashville. They said I was too fat," she said. "They told my producer that, 'Oh, if she was 10 pounds lighter, we'd have signed her.'"

While Messina recalled feeling discouraged, she said her sister, who she called her "greatest support," encouraged her to "just keep going," telling her, "They say you have to get passed on a thousand times before you get a deal."

Messina went on to break through in the music world in 1996 with her debut self-titled album, which featured one of the biggest hits of her career, "Heads Carolina, Tails California." Her success continued with her second album, "I'm Alright," which went double platinum.

"I'm about to be playing this song nonstop because it's so gooooooood