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Edited by: Kristyn Clarke

We had the recent opportunity to chat with Nikki Blonsky about her starring role as Willamena "Will" Rader on the upcoming ABC Family original drama "Huge" which will premiere on June 28th,2010 at 9/8c!

Lisa Steinberg from Starry Constellation magazine asked Nikki how she found out about the part.

Nikki replied " Well, I found out about the part of Will through my agent and once I read the character description and I read about who she was and everything about her, I said, "I have to play this girl. I just have to play her." It was very similar to me wanting and having the need to play Tracy [Turnblad in Hairspray]. I have to play this girl because she has so many things going on that I just adore her.

Lisa Steinberg also went on to say that Nikki Blonsky is a role model for the heavier set community and wanted to know what it was like to be photographed in a bathing suit for the show's advertising campaign.

Nikki replied " Oh, thank you so much. I have to say it was the most freeing experience of my life to be out there with just a bathing suit, you don't get barer than that unless you're doing Playboy and that's not happening anytime soon - not ever. So, I think it was the most freeing experience of my life. Growing up you always have those little things like, "I'm in a bathing suit and I really want to go to the pool, or I want to go to the beach, but I don't want people to see me." A lot of kids and adults still deal with that. I dealt with that for a very long time until I got the part of Will and it said, day one, first shot of the day, she's taking off her clothes, stripping down to her bathing suit, she's doing a strip tease.

When I saw the posters I was like, "Whoa," I didn't know that it was going to be just me in the bathing suit." So, I'm actually headed back to New York soon and I'm really shocked because there's a full one in Times Square, so from a New Yorker it's really, really sweet."

I was able to ask Nikki how much of herself she brought to the character and how she would, like the campaign on the show's web site, encourage people to "live huge".

Nikki explained " Ironically, I bring a lot of myself to Will because when I was in a Hairspray I was 17, I was young and bubbly and the world was new to me and everything was just so fresh. I wanted to make the world a better place and I still do. I still hold that quality of Tracy in me. But, like Will, I'm not as naive as Tracy and I've been around a few years now and I'm a little smarter and I get the game now. That's where I connect with Will - I get what's going on in the world. I see through people and I can see through the fakeness as Will does." and "Living huge is just being yourself. You only get one life, so enjoy it and just have fun, you know. Live and let live, that's my motto."

Nikki was asked by Laura Becker of Shooting Stars Magazine who she would like to see on the show as a guest star or director.

Nikki revelaed " Right now we don't know who Will's parents are because Will really hates her parents, because they are fitness gurus. They're the reason she's at this camp. They're very successful fitness gurus who send her to this camp because they don't approve of what she looks like. So she decides, well you know what, I'm going to go to camp and do it my way. I'm going to gain weight in camp. If we get any guest stars, I hope my parents would be played by someone really fit like John Stamos and maybe Ricky Lake."

Laura Becker went on to ask Nikki about crazy fan experiences and if any stand-out in her mind.

Nikki shared " When I was down in Australia, which I loved, I had a male fan down there who tried to rip my blouse off on the red carpet and then he asked me to marry him in front of the entire red carpet, in front of Zac [Efron], in front of everybody. What do you say when a guy asks you to marry him in front of 300 people? And I just said, "Thank you." It was kind of embarrassing."