“You put on so much weight… it looks good on you!” I was attending a friend’s engagement party, and as her mother squeezed my plump cheeks (yes, she really did), I silently wondered if being fat meant that I needed reassurance or that I will only look “good” when someone else was happy.

I still, to this day, hope the photographer gets the shot and won’t realize that I’m really just some fat guy pretending.

This ad ran in magazines and was a poster in Los Angeles / Hollywood restaurants. The media company responsible for placing this advertisement, refused to run it – at first. Here’s the ad, as part of BlogWorld LA keynote.

When Estée Lauder sent me a tube of their Lab Series Ab Sculpting Gel to try, I figured what harm could it do? So I took some pictures – and posted them on Facebook. Here’s a link to the article in the New York Times

When a producer for The Maury Show contacted me — on Facebook — asking if I knew I had a secret crush, I did what anyone else would do, I looked through her pictures.

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Ten years ago, if someone told me I would be on a hit television show, playing a bad guy who roughs up the star, I would ask for my money back.