Robin Quivers has worked with Howard Stern almost since the beginning of both personalities' careers. (Kevin Winter / Getty Images)

By MADELEINE MARR

Robin Quivers wants to set the record straight: She has nothing against overweight people.

Howard Stern’s longtime sidekick says she and the shock jock weren’t trashing Gabourey Sibide in a recent rant on their Sirius XM radio show.

The duo took some heat after saying the Precious star was “enormous” and would never work in mainstream movies again.

Quivers stands by that statement.

“We weren’t saying anything defamatory,” says the radio personality from New York. “We are just saying it’s ridiculous for people to imply that she’s going to have a great career. How many women — we’re talking movies, not TV — are working in show business who are that size?”

It’s a rhetorical question, but we throw out some names — Roseanne Barr, Queen Latifah, Camryn Manheim.

“OK, well, she’s a lot larger than your average actress,” Quivers continues. “She is obese. She has trouble walking. She is going to have health issues. What this young woman needs isn’t congratulations but an intervention.”

Agree or disagree, pressing the hot button is what these two radio personalities do best. But Quivers doesn’t want to be known as a meanie. Just the opposite. She’ll be in town to kick off her new charity, Fifteen Foundation, helping disadvantaged youths all over the world. She recently returned from Guatemala on a fact-finding mission.

“Even in this country we have issues, we all need to be involved,” says the Baltimore native, 57. “Instead of sitting around complaining, ‘Oh, the government, Oh, the government’ . . . what are you doing?”

She’ll launch her foundation Thursday night at the Gansevoort South Hotel. The event will benefit the Boys and Girls Clubs of Miami-Dade, whose game room at the South Beach club was damaged in a flash flood last year.

While we’re on the subject of struggles, we have to ask: What is working with the shock jock like after all these years?

“We’re having more fun than we’ve ever had,” says Quivers, his costar in 1997′s Private Parts, based on Stern’s autobiography of the same name. “We just wing it. It’s like a marriage — actually longer than most. Definitely longer than Howard’s!”