Lauren Alaina

“I had to learn correct portion control. I eat an egg-white omelet for breakfast, shrimp and veggies for lunch, and chicken with asparagus for dinner.”

“It's so interesting how you can take a bad situation and make a great song out of it that somebody else can listen to and have a completely different perspective of the song and have their o...”

“People always ask me who my role models are and who I want to be like, and I don't wanna be like anybody; I wanna be me. I look up to a lot of people, and they have had great influences on m...”

“I had bulimia for a few years. I was really sick. I don't know that person; I can't believe that was me.”

“I had really bad polyps on my vocal cords, and I've had them since I was a kid, but the bulimia made it 10 times worse. They were bleeding constantly, and it was straining on my voice. And j...”

“I remember my doctors examining my vocal cords and asking if I had an eating disorder, and I instantly said no. But then my mom, who was in the room with me, said my name in her 'mom voice,'...”

“I don't like fake people.”

“People are pretty because they're nice, and they care about other people, and they have a good heart. That's what makes you pretty, and I didn't know that at one point in my life.”

“I'm a goofball, and I have this huge personality, and I used to try to hide that. I used to try to kind of dim my light.”

“I was 15 on the show, and I cried a lot. I was homesick, and was so worried, that I didn't think of being on 'American Idol.' I was so worried that I was going home every week that I didn't...”

“I love acting. I want to act as much as I can without interfering with the music.”

“I grew up eating fried food. I thought that macaroni and cheese was a vegetable.”

“Shania Twain and Martina McBride and all these wonderful women were saying that it's awesome to be a woman, and it's awesome to be a confident woman. Obviously, I could never compare myself...”

“I was 15 on American Idol, and everybody had something to say. It was like I had my really awkward phase on national television, you know?”

“When I first heard my song 'Georgia Peaches' on the radio, I opened up the car windows and started screaming to the other people on the road, 'My song's on the radio!' Of course, I wasn't dr...”

“The first time I heard 'Georgia Peaches,' I absolutely loved it.”

“I knew Scotty was going to win. At the beginning of the episode, I was like, 'Scotty, are you ready to win?'. I knew he was going to in my heart. I accepted it. I couldn't pick a more perfec...”

“I want to be the girl who has a positive influence on people's lifestyle. I don't want to be the girl who has an eating disorder, and that's why she looks the way she looks.”

“I didn't lose. I got second. That's still winning. How could I be unhappy with second place? There are a million people who would love to be in my position.”

“I have insecurity problems like every teenage girl, but you have to work through them.”