If you don't love yourself, you can't love anybody else. And I think as women we really forget that.

I think to give something a chance, to really get to know somebody, you want to do it out of the public eye.

I went to Catholic school for 12 years and went to church every Sunday. I may not do that anymore but I think it gave me a good basis. I've also explored things on my own different philosophies and spiritual teachings and I use what works for me.

Until you value yourself enough and love yourself enough to know that, you can't really have a healthy relationship.

Don't push your weaknesses, play with your strengths

It's not that I didn't love myself before. Sometimes we don't realize that we are compromising ourselves. To understand that a person is not good for you, or that that person is not treating you in the right way, or that he is not doing the right thing for himself - if I stay, then I am not doing the right thing for me. I love myself enough to walk away from that now.

I really felt the growth of myself as a human being, as a person [becoming a mother].