I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant.

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

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

No one can avoid a challenge in life without breeding regret, and regret is the arsenic of life.

Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay.

Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home.

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