“First, I didn’t know if the surgery would work,” she writes in the first-person essay. “I had spent my entire adult life telling everyone that I was fine with the way I looked. I never thought I’d have to explain it. But the complete truth is, I was scared of what people might think of me.”

With her weight hitting a high of 307 pounds, if she hadn’t done something she wouldn’t have lived another ten years.  Although we don’t understand the fear of the truth as many celebs have gone this route, we applaud the fact that she took her health seriously and fixed the problem.