As I Continue To Mature And Navigate

Go To Lord & Taylor On Fifth Avenue, I Think It's The Eighth Floor, And It's Just A Department Called 'woman.' It's Rather Devastating. You've Never Seen Such Hideous Clothes In Your Entire Life. I Mean, It's Simply Appalling. Thank God There Are No Windows On That Floor, Because If I Were A Size 18, I'd Throw Myself Right Out The Window [after Seeing Those Clothes]. It's Insulting What These Designers Do To These Women.

I Have A Very Socratic Approach - I Pummel The Designers With Questions, So When I Get Them To Step Back From The Work And Look At It With Me, They'll Eventually See What I See, Coming To It Fresh And Unencumbered. That's Always Very Gratifying Because They Feel A Responsibility And An Ownership Of A Solution.

I'm Doing All That I Can To Prod The Industry And Get Them To Pay More Attention [to Larger Women And Petite Women]. Because I Find It To Be Reprehensible And Repugnant That Two Populations That Are So Pervasive In This Nation Should Be So Badly Neglected.

It's Not An Area Where Designers Want To Focus Or Pay Attention - Women Who Are Larger Than A Size 12.

I Learned Early On In Teaching How Easy It Is To Hurt A Young Person And That's Never My Intention.