When you're out of sight for as long as I was, there's a funny feeling of betrayal that comes over people when they see you again.

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

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 never walked the streets of New York hoping to be a musical comedy star. For one thing, they would have thought I was too tall, because l was five feet eight and a half, and they were all little bitty things running around in the studio at that time.

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

When you're out of sight for as long as I was, there's a funny feeling of betrayal that comes over people when they see you again.

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