We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences.

My parents were both from the East and had moved to San Francisco only so my father could go to law school there.

I was born in 1968, just eighteen months after my sister Chrisse and just one year after Dad passed the bar exam.

Just because you're a different size doesn't mean you're sitting on the couch eating bonbons all day long watching TV.

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.

My weight fluctuated when I was 30, and I did the unthinkable - I stepped out as a plus-sized model.

I had been on this insane diet for almost 17 years to maintain the weight that was demanded of me when I was modeling. My diet was really starvation. I am not naturally that thin.