My weight fluctuated when I was 30, and I did the unthinkable - I stepped out as a plus-sized model.

We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences.

My doctor felt that the main contributing factor was so many years of malnutrition, especially during my formative years, even before I got into modeling.

Exposing any subject that is unpleasant or controversial means risking judgment and making some people feel uncomfortable.

I grew up on antibiotics. Every ailment - sore throats, earaches, flus - warranted a trip to the doctor and in most cases some kind of prescription.

Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can't abstain from food so the treatment is longer than drugs and alcohol.

I am not naturally that thin, so I had to go through everything from using drugs to diet pills to laxatives to fasting. Those were my main ways of controlling my weight.

My own path towards wellness has been a long and dynamic one. It's taught me that healing from the inside out takes time and there can be great value in various sources of guidance.

My daughters, your daughters, our daughters deserve safety, protection, and the freedom to make their own choices about their personal lives and their physical selves.

Many women who have anorexia put their hearts in a compromised situation.

My days are jam-packed with carpools, classroom assistance, tending to chickens, dogs and seven acres of olive trees!

Possibilities exist for you, to educate yourself, to the highest degree.

It's hard to be an articulate ghost.

We have fought this fight as long and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. There is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.

I don't believe in religion, for I don't see that your religious people are any better than the rest.

Human nature is, by definition, a talkative one, imprudent, indiscreet, gossipy, incapable of closing its mouth and keeping it closed.

Like the watch, the heart needs the winding of purity, or the Dweller ceases to speak.

I'm an actor who loves doing comedy.

We have to build the Republic of Heaven where we are, because for us there is no elsewhere.

I grew up on movie sets and traveling the world with my pops.

We have a strong and credible broadband policy because the man who has devised it, the man who will implement it virtually invented the Internet in this country.