First of all, great figure...ummm...I`m not gonna pick on you and ask if you ate a donut and say you look pregnant, but what did you eat today? (to Jorja Fox at the Screen Actors Guild Awards)

Sometimes when, you know, God tries to correct you in private and if you don`t catch it he`ll correct you in public.

I`m fairly in tune with what`s private with my husband and with me.

Let`s say this I needed the help of doctors in all aspects of my life. I needed the doctors to do everything for me, fair enough.

It was in one of the tabloid newspapers and my husband and I we don`t deal with the B.S. any more than you deal with B.S. in your life.

Today I chose a half a piece of roast chicken with rosemary and broccoli for lunch and I chose it and I felt very proud of myself.

My dad taught me true words you have to use in every relationship. Yes, baby.

You can do health stories, you can do fitness stories - that stuff will impact on your health. But people go through every single day not worrying about what size they are. (Journal National Examiner)

You can have financial strength, professional strength, emotional strength but for me without spiritual strength none of the rest of it matters.

I realized that in those nine seasons I started out at about 225 pounds and I felt, you know, full figured fabulous woman but in those seasons I gained 75 pounds up to over 300 pounds all in front of the nation.

I guess the President says the majority of the people didn`t elect him, he doesn`t have to listen to `em anyway.

I remember from the 2000 election I felt like maybe the one place that I always held in my heart as above reproach is not as above reproach.

I`ve always thought about myself as an attractive person, and I do like to dress up and strut, but I`ve never focused on the size of my butt. I had a breast reduction, but only because my back hurt. (Journal National Examiner)

I mean, on the television, I`ve got to continue to be Star Jones Reynolds. And I enjoy that. But in my real life, I`m a wife now. You can`t really be bossy when you`re married.

That`s sort of what started the process after one of my girlfriends confronted me with the weight. She wasn`t intimidated by Star.

You don`t want to just buy something because it says it`s Ralph Lauren. What you want to do is find the really good quality stuff.

No, I don`t want to exercise all the time. I still despise it, not at all.

Not really in all honesty because until you take control of your own health and go to your own doctor and have your own doctor tell you what`s going to work for you.

It was a foundation that helped me become the person that I am and helped me go where I`m going because I`m not there yet. It`s still a journey.

And I tried it and I felt, I guess I must have been pulled in by the red light of television and now I`ve been on TV since 1992.

It`s the bride`s day ! She should do whatever she wants ! Who cares what other people think !

I can get whatever I want to eat and when you, you know, you forget to eat you sometimes pick up fast food.

I define Bitch, it`s a Babe In Total Control of Herself.

Allie Reynolds better not be looking at other mares !

I found that nothing that anybody else said to me would work.

I want people to make the same choice I made to get healthy.

One day I actually took the list into the bathroom and I put it up against my face and looked in the mirror and I realized I had one of two choices, change the list or change myself.

Yes and, you know, I can`t use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight.

Why can`t I gush a little? Why can`t I make them feel tremendously special? Who says you have to go in there and be critical and acerbic? I will not be that jaded journalist, I will not add to any of that nastiness.

You`ll forgive me, but I`m from the South, so every adult Southern woman gets a `Miss` in front of her name.

Barbara did the selecting and that`s probably the most brilliant thing was she put together a group of women, different backgrounds, different experiences.

I want the big drama. I always said I don`t want a wedding I want a parade.

I think for a couple of years I was believing that I was doing it all on my own and I wasn`t.

In all honesty my cake was baking when I met Al - I had made up in my mind already to get physically healthy. He refreshingly was on his own journey so it was almost as if we walked together.

No, you`re not allowed to be bossy when you`re married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.

We fight a lot, you know, but that`s family. We may be dysfunctional but we`re still family.

I was a prosecutor in Brooklyn in the homicide division and then as a senior assistant district attorney.

The toughest part was doing it in front of the world and recognizing that you had gotten to a point where if you didn`t do something you were going to die.

I felt good full figured. Morbidly obese I was unhealthy and dying.

Yes, I know and then in the same time period within those nine years I lost 150 pounds.

A woman without good friends is a sad woman indeed. (The Cincinnati Enquirer)

I had started losing weight. I mean he didn`t know anything about the journey that I was on at that point obviously but from my highest weight of just over 300 pounds I lost about 45 pounds.

You can`t have it all. No matter how you slice it, it`s a pretty tall order, yet many of us are bent on serving it up. (The Cincinnati Enquirer)

I was in the middle of a crossroads, which is a nice way of saying crisis, physically, emotionally and spiritually. You know the physical part. We just talked about it.

I`m Sadie, Sadie, married lady

Because, you know, well first of all I like people to know that what you see here is the end result of two and a half years of a lot of work.

This is the time that I really miss being in my courtroom because I believe that that`s the last place in this country where there`s supposed to be fairness.

And I had this big, long list of what I wanted in a guy but I realized I didn`t stack up to the list myself.

Oh, definitely and you know you take the bitter with the sweet but the benefits far outweigh the burdens of what I`ve been able to do for my family, my word.