Camryn Manheim

My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their sensibilities. ”

Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world. ”

On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people. ”

One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people. ”

Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language. ”