“I want them to know the world will meet them exactly where they stand.”Twitter contentView on TwitterLet us slide into your DMs.Sign up for theTeen Voguedaily emailWant more fromTeen Vogue? Check this out: she hadn’t trusted this near stranger? What if Arnold hadn’t discovered that Sasha had the poise and raw natural talent necessary to carry an entire movie? Sasha most certainly wouldn’t be having an early-bird dinner with me at an otherwise empty Italian restaurant on the west side of Manhattan. “I couldn’t figure out how to be happy in this world,” she says, sporting a red oversize hoodie (with the word “vibes” all over it) and kicking her Adidas Superstars together under the table with the panache of a skater girl. “The way I think about it is, what if I wasn’t feeling so low to think that I had nothing left to lose by saying yes to the movie?” My own journey with weight is only a small part of how I made the decision to run for office. I have traveled the world to talk about weight and health, including testifying in a state legislative committee in 2015 and lobbying in Washington, D.C., every year for the last three years for theTreat and Reduce Obesity Act in the nominees, through the fact that Beyoncé’s “Formation” was the first time a Black artistwon Best Pop VideoHer words are now echoing again in the2019 VMAs nominations announcement,