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Sometimes I feel like I'm two people. I'm proud of who I am as a person, but I do want to be at a healthy weight.
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I have no shame when it comes to making people laugh. I don't care what I look like.
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I want to have a fit, healthy body and not have to be put in a box. I don't want to be limited by anything.
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I am of the thinking that everything happens as it should and when it should.
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I'm ready to encourage and support people on their journey because I've been encouraged and supported. I just hope I make people proud.
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Why not have a motivation beyond me to get to a healthy weight? Every actor does that. We're chameleons. We change; we grow as an actor. You lose weight, you gain weight, you change your hair or whatever.
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If I ever end up on the worst-dressed list, it's not going to make me fall apart.
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We're all just trying to do the best with what we've got. I hope I help people see themselves on TV.
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When I booked 'This Is Us,' I had 81 cents in my bank account.
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If there was going to be a pioneer of the plus-size girl of my shape on TV, why not me?
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My parents divorced when I was eight; I never really knew my dad, and my mom raised my older sister and brother and me alone. It was challenging.
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Until you love yourself, until you really believe that, you're stopped in your tracks. That's why it's so important to wear what you want to wear and be who you want to be.
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At the end of the day... my love for my body... comes from within.
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I look in the mirror, and I'm a plus-size girl, but I got it going on.
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There were times I'd be nervous walking home from elementary school, thinking, 'If that red tag from the power company saying our lights are turned off is on the door handle, I don't know what I'll do.'
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There are plus-size women who've paved the way - Rebel Wilson, Gabby Sidibe, Melissa McCarthy. I can't wait for the day when I can have a conversation, and it's not about the size of my pants but how I prepared for the role.
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I think everyone has shame about something, whether it's a lack of a relationship with a child or maybe their weight or a lack of communication within their marriage. Everyone can relate to that because we all have something that we're like, 'God, I can work on that,' or, 'I wish I was better at doing this.'
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I'm paving the road for other women and men who know they're destined for greatness, but they don't believe it yet.
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I was born in Homestead, Florida.
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Being a plus-size actress, it is slim pickings, so anytime any role comes up for a plus-size actress, my agents are all over it, and they were like, 'You have to book this job. It's 'American Horror Story.' It's a big deal.' No pressure, right?
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I wanted to be the female Jim Carrey.
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Whether you're tall and you play a basketball player, or overweight and you play somebody who is dealing with the issues behind the weight, we all have to pull from real life to make those performances authentic.
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I know that sounds corny. And I know you've heard it before. But it's really true: We're so much more than our bodies.
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I'm just kind of in love with Kathy Bates. And Sarah Paulson.