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I am diabetic.

When I first found out I had diabetes I denied it.

I'm actually a Type 1 diabetic, so growing up, I had to eat pretty healthy.

I was always on the go, and thought I was too busy to develop something like this. I thought at the time that diabetes went along with bad habits, but I was the last one in my family to eat junk food.

It's hard enough as a kid these days to feel normal and just try to fit in. To be a diabetic is just a dramatic thing to go through.

I got Type 1 diabetes at 30. It hit me in 1982 when I was a White House Fellow in Washington. I had viral pneumonia. I lost 35 pounds in six weeks. And I couldn't see anything. Everything was blurry. I was always thirsty.

I don't want to become a diabetic.

Being diabetic was not what I thought of as being normal, and I feared the stigma of having to take medicine and having people stick me with a needle.

When I gained weight in 2005, my nutritionist was very worried. I was close to having diabetes.

I am the world's worst diabetic.