I still find it tough to be around girls because I always say the wrong thing. If a friend asks me if I look fat in something, I'll be honest and say 'Yeah' when she does.

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.

I took more hell for being fat than I did for being an absolute raging drug addict. I will never understand that.

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.

I've learned that all you can be in this world is you. No matter how much you mess with yourself, with surgery or you know, clothes or cut your hair differently or how much you wish and pray and dream that you're gonna wake up as someone else, it's never gonna happen. You have one life and one opportunity, and all you can be is the best you.

I say find one true friend to help you get through the tough times.

I can't lie, I did a lot of really, really stupid things, and it was because it was my way of crying for help.