So many things were going great in my life and then all of the sudden my personal life just went down at crazy speeds. I had a negative breakdown and it changed my life forever, but I'm glad that it did, because if I had never gone into the treatment ... I don't know if, one, I'd even be sitting here today. Two, if I'd be alive today.

You have to stay strong when it gets tough.

Whatever you dream of doing one day, don't give up on that dream because you never know where it can take you.

Sometimes I think, 'Why couldn't I have been normal?

Having an eating disorder doesn't show ‘strength.’ Strength is when are able to overcome your demons after being sick and tired for so long. Starving is not a ‘diet’ and throwing up isn't something that only extremely thin men or women do. Eating disorders do not discriminate..Neither does any other mental illness. These are deadly diseases that are taking lives daily. So please, let's be cautious of the words we use when discussing ED's and other mental illnesses.

I knew from the second I stepped onstage. I was like, yep, this is what I want to do.

We do the best we can in life, we take things one day at a time and sometimes we all just need a simple reminder of that.