“My weight wasn’t anything that I noticed about myself before,” she told People. “I was just a normal girl. I had this incident when I was in sixth grade where kids spit on me and threw food on me when I was on the bus, and that was really just a turning point in my life.”
Her confidence plummeted, and she became self-conscious.
“I used to stand in front of the mirror for hours and just tell myself that I’m beautiful,” she revealed. “Because I feel like once you love yourself it becomes easier. And I think that was a big thing for me.”
