I've been lucky to find a husband who doesn't judge my past.
Depression, for me, has been a couple of different things - but the first time I felt it, I felt helpless, hopeless, and things I had never felt before. I lost myself and my will to live.
The eye of the hurricane forms as air rotates up and out of the hurricane and some of the air that's being spun out of the top of the storm sinks back into the center. This keeps the eye of the storm relatively calm and clear.
My stepfather and his large family - The Crafts - are from Chicago, so Chicago has always been home for me.
It's scary, the way your mind can overpower what is real and what is right.
My professional life, in a strange way, has always been going up, up, up, while my personal life was just the complete opposite.
The moments before I fall asleep are when my list of things to do attacks my brain.
I've been into fitness since I was 13.
Like most women, I want to stay fashionable during my pregnancy - and on TV, that means coming up with something new to wear every day for at least five months.
To tell your story, you have to include others.
I want people to know me.
I didn't choose to get anorexia. I may have made some childhood-like choices to try to control something. 'I know what I'll do: I'll just not eat.' That was the initial point, but then it spiraled and became a disease - not a choice by any means.
Anorexia is a real disease. The choice you do have is asking for help.
People see me for 30 seconds at a time, and they see someone who's got a hair and make-up team that put them together, and they're looking all right in the world, but it's not.
At home, my personal life was regularly falling apart, and from childhood on, I had a lot of chaos. I was addicted to chaos; I was addicted to self-harm, and I had to seek help at the hospital.
I grew up a 'Ginger,' and I liked having a somewhat unique name.
I don't have anything to prove, but I do like to challenge myself.
People can say whatever they want about me. They can call me ugly. But don't talk about my child.
Parents just want their baby to be happy and healthy, and we're giving every ounce of ourselves to do that.
We're all more complex than the person we put out there.
