I was compulsively overeating when I was eight years old.
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 gained, like, 20 pounds in, like, two and a half, three weeks. So I just got too big too fast, and my body wasn't adjusted to that.
When I feel stressed, I turn to food for comfort, but I don't like to diet and I'm not good at it.
Ninety percent of people who lose weight gain it back. It's very sad.
I've always been a big guy - I was much larger and stronger than my peers when I was 13 years old.
While I was never diagnosed with anorexia or bulimia at the time, I've learned that starving myself and bingeing means I had both.
Depriving yourself will, ironically enough, lead to rebelling and weight gain.
I'm naturally greedy and would end up the size of a house if I ate all I wanted all of the time.
But I enjoyed getting sick, I didn't mind it at all. So in that short amount of time, I did actually go from 121 right back up to 180, which is way too fast obviously. And that resulted in some doctors visits to get things sorted out.
I get so busy that I forget to eat, and that's really hurt me in the past. I gained weight from that.
Let's face it: Russell Crowe is fat and no one ever talks about it.
I was so unhealthy. I used to go to 'Cold Stone Creamery,' get a tub of Butterfinger ice cream, and eat it all before bedtime. And my fingers were permanently stained orange from Cheetos.
Because I was always a fat child, I got fatter and fatter, and I ended up 18 stone and with a 40-inch waist.
I was short and fat as a child.
I put on weight like Santa Claus. I just get this belly that kind of extends out.
I used to play in the front row, I could eat whatever I want - but I got up to 97 kilograms. And let's remember I'm five foot bloody nothing!
I gain weight and lose it again in inevitable cycles.
I'd lie in bed in my dormitory and grab at bits of my body, wanting to tear them off... I was so large by then that, in the heat, my thighs chafed together and bled. I was very unhappy, and yet no one ever asked me how I felt.
All my life I've had a weight problem. As a child, I loved to eat. I would hide from my mother and drink whole cans of condensed milk in my room.
I eat like no other; it drives everyone crazy. I eat donuts three times a day, and I probably go through four Mountain Dews a day. I'm on, like, a sugar high at all times, pretty much.
