It’s sad that women characters have lost so much ground in popular movies. Didn’t Thelma and Louise prove that women want to see women doing things on film? Thelma and Louise were in a classic car; they were being chased by cops; they shot up a truck - and women loved it.

I, quite frankly, am grateful for every day. I don't take anything for granted.

I was having health issues all my life. You're just not conditioned to think of them as health issues.

Changing my body has given me the ability to do all these amazing things that I never in a million years imagined I could do.

So the point is, I don't have a right to tell anybody what's right or wrong about their lives. Who am I to tell you at any given moment of the day what would be right for you?

I made the connection between food and weight, but feeling good or bad was a separate issue.

I think I have some interesting things to say and I don't think anybody out there is saying them.