I believe that life is hard. That we all are going to walk through things that are hard and challenging, and yet advertising wants us to believe that it's all easy.
I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is.
I have very short hair. It's the only cute haircut I think I've ever had.
I don't think any woman wants to be known for being beautiful or busty. I think you want to be known for who you are.
I'm going to look the way God intends me to look... with a little help from Manolo Blahnik.
With short hair you have to get a haircut every two or three weeks. And if you're coloring your hair, you have to color it that often. Every time I did it, I felt fraudulent.
I've etched out who I am through myriad haircut attempts, outfit attempts, beauty attempts, diet attempts. It's been an evolution.
I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older.
I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it.
If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty.
I think I felt that I was very well known for my figure and needed to keep that up for my work. And I regret all of it. I felt fraudulent and very shameful.
I'm a human being who lives a flawed, contradictory life. And I have all sorts of problems and all sorts of successes.
I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.
I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.
The biggest lesson I've learned from my children is to look in the mirror at myself, not at them. I've realized that everything I've done has had an impact on them. We have to understand that they are like little paparazzi. They take our picture when we don't want them to and then they show it to us in their behavior.
Now all of a sudden I'm so less interested in pretending to be a lot of other people, and much more interested in being me.
Actually, the books were never a planned career path.
I thought, while they're up and firm, why not shoot them once or twice.
My deal was that they would use a full-length picture of me in my underwear and a full-length picture of me all done up, and they would write about how long it took and how much it cost, because that was the whole point. It was very liberating.
I wasn't the kid who lined up her toys, although when it came to Barbies and that little traveling wardrobe with the drawers and the little shoes, my stuff was always on hangers and the shoes were always in pairs. Things had their places.
