Inside every fat person there's a thin person looking to get out - They've just eaten them.

I can honestly say I've never sold any arms to a repressive foreign regime while reassuring everyone at home that the weapons will be used for nice things.

There are lots of people who believe that caricature of me the tabloids created, so they think they don't like me.

Work motivates me. I love what I do and I'm a positive person, I've always liked what I've done as a job - however grim it was.

Even when I wasn't overweight I was never one of those girls or women who wanted to look nice. I always thought it wasn't important.

If you're a fat person - and especially if you're a woman - at all stages of your life you'll get abuse for it, so you have to work out a way of dealing with it. The best way is to be humorous about it - that defuses any tension.

With proper acting, I don't know what I would play - I got sent a script for a play, and it said in the notes that my proposed character was 'hideously fat and ugly'. That made my day. I mean, I do know I am no oil painting.