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.

Sometimes, as a young artist, I was looking for validation to know I was good enough, and that's what the initial audition gave me. It made me feel like I was doing something right, even if it is a scary or unstable path.

I can be capable of anything if I allow myself to be. I really realized what an obstacle I was being in my own life.

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.

I am only capable of what I allow myself to believe I can do.

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

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.