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I figured being fat was my destiny.

Weight was the thing I hyperfocused on. It went from me losing a few pounds to slowly over time losing more and more weight and becoming more and more focused on it.

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.'

Almost everything I do is related to being fat.

The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.

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

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

People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.

It's definitely part of my job description not to be too fat.

I had spent my entire career not wanting to talk about weight, not wanting to deal with it, wanting to be an actor first.