Do you think television shows targeted to younger viewers have a responsibility to present healthy body images?
This is a subject I feel pretty passionate about. On our show, we’re all very real girls. I don’t think we’re trying to take a stance. We just are what we are. I feel strongly about the blessings I’ve been given in this world and the opportunity to pursue my dream and be on television. I want to be a positive role model to young women. It’s a great feeling to be able to say, “I love my body.” There’s a tremendous health risk that comes with starving yourself and the strain it puts on your heart. One day you could just not wake up. I don’t think many people know that it’s that serious. So if any girls can look at me or any of the girls on our television show and say, “they’re doing what they love and they have healthy eating habits,” I would be really, really proud of that. I don’t feel the need to succumb to any sort of idea of what I should look like. If you look back at the first years of Reba, I was a little “fluffier.” But every single day I had producers who told me how beautiful
