Truthfully, everyone knows how to eat right. They know the difference between oatmeal and a jelly cream doughnut. They know how to walk. Everyone has this in their brain. When I started, we didn't have all this knowledge.

My parents always told me to be myself. I was always funny and silly as a kid. And I would always make them laugh. And they always told me to dream big and follow those dreams.

Everyone's under pressure and you just have to learn how to deal with it. And I deal with it through prayer and staying busy.

We're all in trouble, and we all need to sort of pick up the pieces and start to exercise more and really be careful with the food.

One day I may be meeting you and hearing how you've changed your life by saying, "Farewell to Fat".

Puberty for me was graduating from Thousand Island salad dressing to Caesar salads. It was like going from hot dogs and hamburgers to beef stroganoff, or from ice cream in a cone to creme brulee.

I've been offered big money to promote machines. And high-protein diets, when that was really popular. There was always some new powder or diet plan that somebody wanted to put my name on.