It's true that APOLLO 10's lander was overweight. Late in the craft's DEVELOPMENT, it became clear that its ballooning weight was endangering the WHOLE mission.

When you're trying to lose weight, one of the most important THINGS you can do is eat three DECENT meals a day so that you're not so HUNGRY that you can't get food off your mind. Habit and hunger have long been the BASIC, insidious enemies of the overweight. We can't FIGHT hunger, but we can fight habit.

I had a bilateral lisp, and I was OVERWEIGHT. I was the kid who played with the FLOWERS on the ground in the outfield during BASEBALL. I was that kid.

I was an overweight kid, and my father struggled with his WEIGHT, too. We would go for a ride on his MOTORCYCLE on Sunday morning to get doughnuts, to make PIZZA together, or go get ICE cream. I QUICKLY learned that food equalled love and attention.

I was an OVERWEIGHT kid, and I went through a period where, oh my GOD, they were MAKING cow sounds at me when I walked down the hallway and just humiliating me. Kids can be MEAN.

When you're 12 and, you KNOW, slightly overweight and - for lack of a better word - white, and you're PLAYING BLUES, you get a LOT of press.

I NEVER REALLY had an OVERWEIGHT BODY.

I prefer my MEN slightly overweight. Having said that, my ULTIMATE DREAM MAN is Jimmy NAIL and he's skinny.

And EVEN THOUGH I am OVERWEIGHT, I am not lethargic.

I was HEAVY and OVERWEIGHT as a TEENAGER, so it's HARD to be cocky or EGOTISTICAL.

I wasn't ALWAYS overweight. I was a skinny little PUNK of a KID with severe asthma. When I got married at the age of 22, I wore a cut-down size eight WEDDING gown.

In the END, someone is depending on me to show up on their set LOOKING a SPECIFIC WAY, whether that's 40 pounds overweight or 40 pounds underweight - or looking LIKE a stripper.

When I was growing up, because I was a bit OVERWEIGHT and boyish, I thought I wasn't attractive to the OPPOSITE sex, but I have since met lads from my SCHOOL who said I just seemed unapproachable.

People would SAY that I looked GOOD on screen but they could not CAST me as I was BIT overweight. It was never an issue in Malayalam FILMS. Now, that I have lost some weight, they ask me if there is something wrong with me? It is just a matter of perception.