I feel like I'm held more accountable to stay healthy now because now I'm a role model to young girls to not have eating issues and to not say, 'Hey, it's OK to starve yourself' or 'It's OK to throw up after your meals' - that's not OK.

Embracing yourself is important and I wish that all women would realize how beautiful they are, inside and out.

I never found out until I went into treatment that I was bipolar.

My tattoos are reminders to hang in there when things get rough.

I don't think I was ever...trying to kill myself but I knew that if I'd ever gone too far...I wouldn't care.

People don't realize how badly verbal harassment and cyber bullying affects you. I wish they had hit me in the face and gotten it over with, because what they said to me, sticks to me to this day. It affected me into the person that I am today.

I’m not perfect and I don’t have to be.