I'm Okay If People Don't Know Who

What's So Kind Of Beautiful About The Whole Thing Was That Everything That Made Me Not Right For All Of Those Hundreds Of Commercial Auditions That I Went On And No One Ever Wanted Me For Is What Made Me Perfectly Right For 'real Women Have Curves'.

I Think The Body Image Thing, Everybody Can Identify With That. In Our Culture There's Just So Much Pressure And So Much Attention Placed On The Way We Look. You Just Turn On The Tv Or Flip Open A Magazine And There's People Who Don't Look Like Any Of Us. I Think This Movie Is Like, Finally, A Celebration Of Reality And Of Our Imperfections. We're Not All A Size 2 And We're Not All A Size 0, And You Know What? That's Ok, Because Some Of Us Like To Eat!

I'm Not Going To Miss Wearing The Braces Very Much.

Latino Actors And Actresses Have Had To Struggle For Decades, But When I Came Around With Real Women Have Curves, Attitudes Were Starting To Change. We Screened The Film All Over The World - In Jewish Communities, Black Communities, Greek Communities, German Communities - And People Across The Board Said, "that's My Family."

As Early As Second Grade I Remember Feeling Really Different And Isolated. I Had The Hugest Crush On A Boy, And My Best Friend Had A Crush On Him, Too. One Day He Said To Me, 'i Like Your Best Friend More Because She's Paler And She Has Freckles.' And It Was Right Then That I Began To Feel Like, Oh Wow, I'm Different.