I left acting for 15 years, and I think it's really nice to have another life. I took too much for granted when I was younger.

You must decrease the amount of food you eat and increase the amount of exercise you get. That is all there is to it.

When food becomes the enemy, every time we lose the fight we not only gain weight, but lose our self-esteem as well.

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

I always tried, in the books I wrote, to make it clear: Thin is not the goal. But I was thin. So no matter what I said, the subliminal message was, "You have to look a certain way." And I'm not happy about playing into that.

The capacity of young people to persevere, even under the most adverse conditions, never ceases to amaze me.

We grow up being told, "Be a good girl." When you're told to be good, you have to get rid of whatever is bad.