When you become a parent, it's not all about you anymore.

I am not naturally that thin, so I had to go through everything from using drugs to diet pills to laxatives to fasting. Those were my main ways of controlling my weight.

My days are jam-packed with carpools, classroom assistance, tending to chickens, dogs and seven acres of olive trees!

I bicycle 12,000-foot mountain passes, run, cross train, skate-ski, hike and mountain bike.

I am a daughter, a sister, a wife and a mother. I am a friend of women and I am their advocate.

Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can't abstain from food so the treatment is longer than drugs and alcohol.

I feel like it's my responsibility to honestly cover a lot of subjects in part because I have two little girls and I really want them when they grow up to have a voice.