I tried to conform to what everyone thinks is beautiful. But my genetics gave me a curvy figure, and I've come to understand that in the Latina culture, that is beautiful.

I don't see myself doing television, but I do see myself directing.

I want to help with bullying because there are girls who can't just up and homeschool and focus on their career.

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.

No matter who you are, where you've come from, what you've been through... You can make a difference in this world.

Very skinny girls were on the cover of magazines and that's what I was looking up to so that's what I had to idolize. I don't want that for young girls to idolize.

I want to show the world there is life, surprising, wonderful, and unexpected life, after diagnosis.