There's always somebody older, richer, more desperate than you.

When you're the spokeswoman for a weight-loss program, everything is witnessed. I weigh in once a week with a witness. I have to sign an affidavit saying I cannot have any surgeries.

God gave us intestines for a reason. I'm not keen on surgery. It's too extreme. All it took was one of those plastic surgery shows to see how violent it is.

You are not in business to be popular.

I developed a nutty attitude where I'd think, If some guy really loves me he doesn't care if I'm fat. I'd come up with all these stupid reasons why it would be OK to be fat.

Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.

I have photographs taken of me at the time I was addicted, and thought I looked good. I see them today and realize my eyes were dead.