My father offered me a dollar for every pound I would lose as a kid. It didn't work. And it doesn't really work in the long run.

I'm a very insecure and emotional person still looking to be loved by everyone else.

I do not want any child in America to have my childhood because it was taken away from me because I just wasn't good enough; well I am good enough now.

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

I am kinder to my body. I don't try to prove anything to myself or others. I keep thinking about the need to go slower, gentler and maintain a sense of humor about it all.

You can say anything you want to say about me. But don't you dare address overweight people with terrible names and ugly remarks. That is what upsets 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.