When you start to beat yourself up, remind yourself of how worthy you are of love.

I grew up in the South where there's discrimination, and when I witnessed the judgment around me, I always thought someone needs to stick up for not just the LGBT community but any outsider, anybody that wasn't the mold in Texas.

Don't be afraid to speak up, because someone will be there for you.

Don't judge me. You know my name, but not my story.

I don't look at the criticism anymore. If somebody calls me fat, even in a vulnerable moment, I laugh to myself and think, I'm doing everything I can, so there's nothing I can do about it.

Share your story with someone. You never know how one sentence of your life story could inspire someone to rewrite their own.

You don't have to have a thigh gap to be beautiful. It is possible to love your body the way it is.