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

When I work, a lot of times I have to lose weight, and I do that, but in my regular life I was not eating right, and I was not getting enough exercise. But by the nature of my diet and that lifestyle - boom! The end result was high blood sugars that reach the levels where it becomes Type 2 diabetes. I share that with a gajillion other people.

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

I lost 90 pounds and my blood pressure went down to a normal level and the salt in my urine disappeared. And that was when I had to make the transition from fat character actor to thin character actor.

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.

I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.

I was diagnosed with hypoglycemia, an abnormal decrease of sugar in the blood. Eventually I learned to eat five small meals a day. Now if I'm making a movie and get hungry, I call time out to eat some crackers.

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 finally admitted that obesity and diabetes were part of a life-threatening legacy - and I had to deal with that reality or die.