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.

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

I go on the Internet and look at old pictures of myself, because it is the best reminder of how far I have come and where I do not want to be.

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

Women are so unforgiving of themselves. We don't recognize our own beauty because we're too busy comparing ourselves to other people.

The truth is, when girls are mean to you or make fun of you, it's because there's something wrong with them.