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In real everyday life, I don't walk around feeling fat, and if on TV I'm considered fat, honestly, I kind of like it, because I'm a big advocate of positive unique representations of women in media. And so I like how I'm able to represent a curvier body and still be beautiful.

I think I have broken the mould that actresses have to be extremely thin on screen. All those who are making my weight an issue just prove that people are jealous. These are people who have nothing to do in life except to stare at their computer screens and make comments on us.

I was raised to be self-conscious about weight. Then as I got older and started doing television, it became a career issue, like, 'You have to lose weight or you'll lose that job.'

My weight has fluctuated my whole life, and because I've been on television since I was 11 years old, everyone has seen it.

I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people.

With television, you can make anyone look larger than life.

Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight.

I didn't realize I was the 'fat' sister until I went on TV and the media started saying that about me.

Weight is just not a hot button. In fact, during my life, it probably should have been on my radar screen a bit more. I look back at work photos and am shocked. Was I eating the people I was interviewing?! Good Lord, I was big.