“I was very skinny and very lanky and kind of awkward. In Puerto Rico, ...” — Joyce Giraud Quote

“I was very skinny and very lanky and kind of awkward. In Puerto Rico, everybody is a little more voluptuous, with these beautiful bodies, and there I was, the skinny, lanky girl.”

“Oh, I am such a little piggy. Everyone is always mad at me because I eat so much. They're like, 'How are you so skinny?' I eat more than my husband!”

“In the entirety of my life, I have never had an eating disorder.”

“During the initial two years in Mumbai, it was lonely and awkward for me, till I made some friends in South Mumbai.”

“I got my awkward years out of the way.”

“I'm really awkward when people recognize me. I'm not good at it, and for the most part it hadn't happened to me until 'True Blood,' and then, all of a sudden, it started happening all the time.”