I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.

I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be.

I don't have great thighs. I have very big breasts and a soft, fatty little tummy. And I've got back fat. People assume that I'm walking around in little spaghetti-strap dresses. It's insidious - Glam Jamie, the Perfect Jamie, the great figure, blah, blah, blah. And I don't want the unsuspecting 40-year-old women of the world to think that I've got it going on. It's such a fraud. And I'm the one perpetuating it.

All the work built my fame and certainly made me more money, but the toll it took in my home was not good.

Pick clothes that you really love. And wear them. And don't make anything "special." If it's being held for something "special," wear it to the market. Wear it every day!

I've been in showbusiness all my life, but as an actress I have never been overly driven.

Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me.