I do consider myself a clown and a court jester, and I do love to make people laugh, whether they're laughing with me or at me.

Every morning when I get up, I ask God what he wants me to do, ask him to lead me to the right people to help them.

I started my own class for people like me who can't find any place else to go.

I just want people to get off the back burner of their life and start to take better care of themselves and their children.

For 40 years, my formula has been to love yourself, move your body and to watch portion size. But the No. 1 thing is to love and value yourself, no matter what you've been through.

I don't have to teach anymore, I don't have to work anymore, God has been really good to me.

How do you get motivated? By knowing your worth. Americans do not know how worthy they are. You deserve to be healthy, but a lot of times, people have, as childs been told - as a children been told that they're no good, that they're never going to be anything else.