From the time I started school, it was clear to everyone that I wasn't learning at the same pace as other kids.

I think that we can't deny the public's want for balancing out the images that are out there depicting women. Not all of us are 17 and a size two.

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.

Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can't abstain from food so the treatment is longer than drugs and alcohol.

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

I've found that balance is key. I'm no longer an extremist in any one direction.

My days are jam-packed with carpools, classroom assistance, tending to chickens, dogs and seven acres of olive trees!