When I was young, and I wouldn't eat, my parents would say, 'Eat, or else you're going to become a little Biafran.'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When I was young, I had no choice as to what I was eating.
I try to eat how your mother wanted you to eat when you were young.
I was fat because my parents were a little fat themselves at that point in their lives, and I ate what they ate.
When I was young, I was clever enough to know that if I got married or had children, I would be eaten.
When I was 12, I first made the decision to go vegetarian after a co-star's line 'I don't eat anything with a face' suddenly shocked me into reality.
My son, before he went to school, he'd eat pretty much everything. Then as soon as he went to school, he got some peer pressure, and other kids would say, 'Oh, you're gonna eat that. That's horrible. That's disgusting.'
I always thought eating what you wanted was one of those aspects of adulthood to be looked forward to when you were a child.
I am actually a bit chubby, and I eat everything. I eat in a way - if my parents fed me the way I choose to eat as an adult, they would've lost custody.
You can't be a parent and say, 'I need you to be more active and I need you to eat right,' when you're still choosing to have poor eating habits.
I remember as a teen being able to eat more than my father. I was growing so fast and my body couldn't keep up.