Chrissy Metz

When I'm not shooting, I'm a leggings and boots girl. I like cute and casual - for me, it's all about feeling good and being comfortable.

I was always the class clown, and I think I gravitated toward performing for the attention I didn't always think I was getting at home.

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.

I remember being at Weight Watchers at, like, 11 years old and my mom just trying to figure it out for me.

My sister's tall, thin, model-esque.

I eat my feelings - when I'm happy, when I'm sad.

When I first heard 'Harper's Bazaar' wanted me to be sexy, I was like, 'Who, me?' I knew y'all were edgy, but this is incredible - it's validation.

I just have to be very clear. Whether or not I lose weight or stay the same, it's purely a choice of mine for health. Not because I think that plus size, curvy, voluptuous, big bodies aren't attractive - because I think they're awesome and sexy.

I think that my whole journey had been getting to the place where I can accept myself for who I am, to be the woman that I'm meant to be, but you have to get there first.

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.

I'm on this journey to inspire people and to encourage them.

If you can't love who you are now, you can't get to the place you want to be.