I did a lot of fast talking as a youth; I was pretty good at it. I was never talked into it - I was always the one doing the talking.

If you've looked at all the glamour magazines lately, all the covers are actresses. If they are on those covers, they are going to try to emulate models. That's just the way it is.

I justified it in so many ways. I had a very, very long and difficult struggle with my sexuality.

I had to find a relationship with someone who could simultaneously make me grow up and keep me forever young.

Even if I'm hormonal and I feel like I've got a couple pounds of water weight, I will never starve myself, I will never, ever go on a diet.

And dieting, I discovered, was another form of disordered eating, just as anorexia and bulimia similarly disrupt the natural order of eating. "Ordered" eating is the practice of eating when you are hungry and ceasing to eat when your brain sends the signal that your stomach is full. ... All people who live their lives on a diet are suffering. If you can accept your natural body weight and not force it to beneath your body's natural, healthy weight, then you can live your life free of dieting, of restriction, of feeling guilty every time you eat a slice of your kid's birthday cake.

In high school I had sex with girls quite a few times. They were straight women who I convinced to jump in the sack with me.