I grew up on antibiotics. Every ailment - sore throats, earaches, flus - warranted a trip to the doctor and in most cases some kind of prescription.

My parents were both from the East and had moved to San Francisco only so my father could go to law school there.

I was born in 1968, just eighteen months after my sister Chrisse and just one year after Dad passed the bar exam.

I feel like it's my responsibility to honestly cover a lot of subjects in part because I have two little girls and I really want them when they grow up to have a voice.

I am a daughter, a sister, a wife and a mother. I am a friend of women and I am their advocate.

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

My weight fluctuated when I was 30, and I did the unthinkable - I stepped out as a plus-sized model.