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Between 1991 and 1997 I had really serious asthma.

I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I've taken better care of my illness.

I had asthma when I was a kid, asthma so bad that it would turn into pneumonia and I almost died several times. Nobody knew why back then, but now it's obvious.

I grew up as a really sick kid; I had really bad childhood asthma and was at home all the time in New York.

Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden.

I was diagnosed with asthma when I was 18 during my freshman year at UCLA. I refused to accept it - and I hid it from my coaches and teammates. But ignoring my problem didn't make it go away.

The only medication that I am on, I am on asthma, and I have had that since I was a child. That's just a normal use.

When I was 25, I was in a show called 'Bajour,' and I was going to leave the show because I couldn't breathe. I couldn't sing, and I couldn't do the basic dance steps I had to do. Fortunately, two actors in the production - who were also yoga instructors - taught me some breathing exercises, and my asthma was cured that day.

Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar.

I was a fat child; I was asthmatic. No wonder I'm a hypochondriac.