Almost everything I do is related to being fat.

On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people

Acting forces you to ask yourself, 'Can my constitution take a decade of constant rejection?' And after ten years, you either make it or you don't. And the problem is they don't tell you in advance.

Self-acceptance begets acceptance from others, which begets even deeper, more genuine self-acceptance. It can be done. But no one is going to bestow it on you. It is a gift only you can give yourself.

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

My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their sensibilities

Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.