I was doing a children's book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I'd been feeling - and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves.

It was during a cosmetic procedure that I first had painkillers.

Being a parent is a weird juggling act - and nobody does it right. Everybody does it wrong.

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.

My husband once said he'd never met anybody who walked so fast and ran so slowly. As I said, it's a little hard for me to try new things, and this was me facing a fear that I'd had my whole life. Since I had no experience running, I felt like a failure before I'd even begun.

There is a point when you aren't as much mom and daughter as you are adults and friends.

I don't ever want to make taking pictures into another way of saying 'Here I am'. Because I'm as here as I want to be.