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In later years, I craved foods that were almost always fattening.

I think I was immediately fed, so food became a very important part of my life.

I was going to McDonald's and Taco Bell every day. The kids behind the counter knew me - it wouldn't even faze them. Or I'd sit up at Denny's or Big Boy and just eat by myself. It was sad. I got so heavy that people started to not recognize me.

I left home because I was hungry.

I was once in a long relationship with a man who ran a vintage clothes store but had been a chef, so I'd come home each night to a different three-course meal. I was quite fat, but so happy.

I was fat because I lived in the Midwest in the 1970s, and everyone was a little fat then and only getting fatter.

I used to work for a catering company - I waitressed for Harry Winston events. I remember being so hungry, I would eat when I was supposed to be catering to other people.

I was doing shows and flying economy, and nobody ever fed me. Or I'd be staying in hotels so cheap that by the time I'd get in, there wasn't any room service. I didn't eat for a long time. Not on purpose. You'd be on shoots with bad food or get on a plane, and the food would be so disgusting you couldn't eat it.

It was kind of boring for me to have to eat. I would know that I had to, and I would.

I was fat because my parents were a little fat themselves at that point in their lives, and I ate what they ate.