Why is it controversial to talk about the fact that fat people deserve to take up space and deserve to be sexy?
Why is it controversial that I chose to talk about my abortion? And the fact that I got an abortion when I was in a marriage and could have financially supported a child, why did I feel so much shame for that?
Just because we're plus size, doesn't mean we have to prove that we're healthy, just as someone who is smaller than us or average size doesn't have to prove they are healthy.
If you want to eat pizza, have the pizza. If you want to run 5 miles up a hill, cool, go run. Do whatever you want to do, but don't let the size of your body and other people's opinions about you stop you from living the life you deserve.
Self-love is for everyone and we all need it!
I feel sexy when I can be in charge of how I present my body and how I am in this world.
Love is, to me, a lot of different things. It's the love you have for yourself and if you have a family and friends. Your love for pizza. I feel like love can be really anything that you want it to be.
I represent women that you don't see a lot in media and in print.
For so long advertising hasn't been inclusive when it comes to plus sizes which is crazy to me.
Loving yourself is a journey, not a destination.
Learning to love yourself is not going to happen overnight - the first step is trying to be kinder and more patient with yourself, and I understand that it takes time.
I think people think how I got work came easy. People assume that I was an overnight sensation, because they're just now hearing about me, or that everything happened very quickly.
I'll wear a crop top if I'm not loving my stomach because it kind of forces me to pay attention to it and to love it, really.
It's hard enough to break into my industry when you're my height and my size but adding the tattoos on top of it, there's not many clients that will hire you if you have Miss Piggy tattooed on your arm.
I firmly believe that a big part of the obsession with women's thinness comes from the same place as male power fantasies.
What shaped my perception about my body and myself was finding better clothes - that's what changed my world.
Designers are either not interested in making larger sizes or they don't feel that it's important.
I'm not like recruiting people and starting a cult and telling people to be fat.
Plus-size is a term that's never been used in hate; no one has ever used it in a negative way. The industry has always used it to help us identify where to shop.
We need to support our LGBT youth.
