I always took it for granted that there would be life after Hollywood.

No one had ever done a swimming movie before so we just made it up as we went along. I ad-libbed all my own underwater movements.

What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things.

I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're just women, you know

I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage.

Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues

My training in Science of Mind had begun with my mother. She took me to a different church every Sunday, and she encouraged me to question the minister afterward.