Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on.

Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language.

I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school.

My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their sensibilities.

When I meet large women who walk with confidence and are articulate and really have an understanding of how they walk in this world, I love them so deeply for being able to overcome such unbelievable odds.

Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?