I love Richard Simmons. I was so excited as a child to exercise along with him on the tv, and then there would be making a healthy food at the end of the show. My grandmother would lovingly laugh when we baked about how I learned to beat eggs by watching Richard Simmons.

When I was a teenager, I saw him talk about how he was bullied as a kid and how that made it so important to him to give love to the world. I thought anybody famous was cool, so I had hope I could become cool like him.