We are so hard on ourselves, it is unbelievable sometimes. The things we say to ourselves or think about when we look in the mirror are so cruel. We have to look at the power we do have and use it to overcome that voice of insecurity.

There is an energy in New York that is like nowhere else I've been, and I feel free there, and that is inspiring.

The weight loss has been a secondary change to the mental changes I have made. Weight loss does not fix problems; how you view yourself does.

I am constantly trying to figure things out, and writing and decompressing is a way for me to analyze and try and grow and understand.

If we can just try every day to be the best versions of ourselves, we are offering to the world the best addition to society.

I live in Brooklyn, New York. It is a melting pot of cultures and people. I walk down the street, and there is art on the buildings and people congregating who have been neighbors for years and events and music and freedom.

Women come in all shapes and sizes, and we are what we want to be, not the label that is placed on us.