Many of my friends have heard mothers saying, "If any of my kids ever turn out to be gay, I'll disown you, you're going to move out of my house, I never want to see you again." If you can't cope with a situation like, say, sexuality, then how can you say you ever loved me? Throw me out in the cold, to die? How can you even say that you ever loved me? It doesn't make sense.

I was emotionally and mentally abused by my stepfather for 17 years. I had a very low self-esteem, always. I ate like a pig, I was very much overweight and I just didn't take care of myself. I always thought of myself as ugly.

I'm not a very promiscuous person. There was a time when I was promiscuous. It was like, "I don't care. You don't care about me, I don't care about myself, so let's just do it and get it over with."

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