I was scared, because I knew that in the political arena, you have to satisfy so many different types of people at once, and I wasn't sure that I could speak for everybody and be politically correct.

Nobody else knew what to do with me because big women are old

One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.

I don't even like to be naked in front of myself!

I hate overweight, because it implies that there's a weight standard i should be adhering to

Handsome, thin, sophisticated men often fall madly in love with larger women, we just never see it on TV.

Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language.