I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.

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.

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

So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and the most descriptive way to say it.

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

One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.