No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.

Not really in all honesty because until you take control of your own health and go to your own doctor and have your own doctor tell you what's going to work for you.

In all honesty my cake was baking when I met Al - I had made up in my mind already to get physically healthy. He refreshingly was on his own journey so it was almost as if we walked together.

I was in the middle of a crossroads, which is a nice way of saying crisis, physically, emotionally and spiritually. You know the physical part. We just talked about it.

I realized that in those nine seasons I started out at about 225 pounds and I felt, you know, full figured fabulous woman but in those seasons I gained 75 pounds up to over 300 pounds all in front of the nation.

I was a prosecutor in Brooklyn in the homicide division and then as a senior assistant district attorney.

And I tried it and I felt, I guess I must have been pulled in by the red light of television and now I've been on TV since 1992.