I have a new found respect for women who have been through breast cancer and this surgery.

One of my first thoughts I had when I started considering the mastectomy was, 'What am I going to look like?' And then, 'What will my husband think?

You can never take your reputation back. There really is nothing as powerful as a good reputation.

For me it was just more important to get the cancer out. With the double mastectomy I now have less than one per cent chance of getting it back, otherwise it was 20, 30 or 40 per cent chance and for me it wasn't worth it.

I would love to interview Roberto Benigni just so I could tell him how much his movie, life is beautiful, meant to me.

Life's better now. I wouldn't do it all over again, though. It's funny how life works. Maybe it was meant to happen for many reasons, because my life in many ways richer.

Through my attempt to get pregnant through IVF, we sadly found out that I have early stages of breast cancer. It's been a shock.