For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps.

I have lived my life in a culture that hates fat people.

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

Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and that someday I would arrive at it.

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.

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