There's always going to be someone prettier, smarter, funnier, better than you - something - but you're you. And no one can take that away from you. Every single person in this world is unique and special and worth something. You can become anything you want to. We just live in a society where they love to kick people when they're down, and they love to put a label on everything.

It's really hard seeing somebody you love be in pain and be ill and there's nothing you can do. What's interesting is people act in so many different ways. You know, some people run away, some people get angry, some people fall apart. It's like everybody has a different way of dealing with stuff like that.

I call myself a FFP: former fat person, and when you're an FFP, you will always see in yourself what people used to bully you for.

Sometimes it's other people's voices you have to shut out.

Pilates is amazing, my posture is so much better and I'm even starting to get muscles on my tummy - it's incredible.

I didn't know that anything was wrong with me until the media got involved in my life.

My girlfriends and I just started doing plyometrics. It's a killer - it hurts so much. But when you walk out of there, you're like, 'I can't believe I just did that and my body looks this good.