Cancer is my own private war. The strain, the nausea, the fever take turns challenging my strength, my mind and my spirit.

As much as I would have liked to have kept my cancer private, I now realize that I have a certain responsibility to those who are fighting their own fights and may be able to benefit from learning about mine.

What would you do if someone said to you: "You're so popular right now that you can be on the cover of every magazine, but if you do that, you might get overexposed and a backlash will develop"? That's life. Everything has positive and negative consequences.

The reason the all-American boy prefers beauty over brains is that the all-American boy can see better than he can think.

I'll do anything to stop my son running out into the street. I'll take a bullet for him. He's hit me a few times. He shows no remorse afterward.

It's much easier to go through something and deal with it without being under a microscope... It was stressful. I was terrified getting the chemo. It's not pleasant. And the radiation is not pleasant.

I feel like a blonde nothingness, alone in my own body ...... Today it's not drugs that fill my body, its despair.