I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.
My cholesterol went from 220 to 149. I was crying like a 'Biggest Loser' contestant when my doctor gave me the news.
No matter how old you are, no matter how much you weigh, you can still control the health of your body.
Like most severely overweight people, I had to hit a rock-hard bottom before I'd take responsibility for the consequences of neglecting my own health.
Going from 300 pounds to 150 pounds was the biggest change of my whole life.
When I became of service to other people I stopped worrying about my weight so much.
I lost 90 pounds and my blood pressure went down to a normal level and the salt in my urine disappeared. And that was when I had to make the transition from fat character actor to thin character actor.
In my early days, I was about 145 pounds. I was really a starving artist; the poster child for starving artists.
When I was larger, people said I was fat. Now that I've lost weight, they say I died.
My weight fluctuated when I was 30, and I did the unthinkable - I stepped out as a plus-sized model.
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