network executives pressured her to lose weight. A crash diet with exercise lost her 30 pounds in two weeks - and caused kidney failure.

Luckily, she is much better now, joking that she's unable to resist the temptation of a certain crusty carb. "I have the bread disease," she blurts out. "If I start eating bread, I never stop. I have a foundation dedicated to bread disease. It's so sad."

"Will you send me the newsletter?" begs Paige, who can relate - he gave up bread, pasta, and potatoes since booking Queer. "But when we wrap for the season, I will go directly to a McDonalds and I will have French fries and a Big Mac and I will be nauseous as all hell. Then I will go to a doughnut shop." Paige admits that he walks a fine line.

P: I'm naked on television, and it's important to me that my body be in good shape without going bananas.

C: When we realize as human beings that part of us is all the same, we can let go of our pain. I think all pain stems from a feeling of separation, that we're by ourselves.

P: I think gay people have their adolescence after their adolescence, in their 20s and 30s. It's really easy to get stuck there and wrapped up in all those things that we should have sorted out as teenagers. A great thing that's happening is that teenagers are coming out as teenagers, so they get to go through all this crap at 17 when you're built to deal with that level of angst and vanity - instead of it becoming the model for your entire life.

C: So many men I know have eating disorders - anorexia and bulimia. They're just like women - and that has always been the worst thing that women had to deal with.

P: There was a great quote last year. "Orange is the new pink, and men are the new women."

C: I like a softy. I like a shlubby guy with a little softness around the edges.