When You're A Big Girl

I Can't Remember A Time When My Mom Didn't Work. She Has Forever Been On The Move: A Go-getter. When My Brother Adel And I Had A Paper Route As Kids, My Mom Would Get Up Before Us At The Crack Of Dawn To Drop Off The Washington Post At Different Corners.

When You're A Big Girl Like Me, You Want Someone Who Makes You Feel Diminutive. I Think Fat Guys Are Sexy.

I'm An Optimist, So I Think Everything Can Be Worked Out And Fixed. But From Having Cancer I Learned That Even If You're Even An Optimist, Sometimes You Just Have To Face The Facts That Certain Things Are Broken.

There Are Two Types Of People: The Ones Who Give You 50 Reasons It Can't Be Done ... And The Ones Who Just Do It.

If It Weren't For My Breast Cancer, I Wouldn't Be A 'today' Host. After I Got Better, I Talked To My Boss About Working On The Show. Six Months Before, I'd Have Been Terrified To Go In There And Ask For What I Wanted. But After What I'd Been Through, How Could I Be Scared Of Being Told No?