[After the twins' birth,] I spent two years doing nothing. I was a wife and a mom. But you need that time to grow. You can't be afraid of, 'Oh, I'm out of the public, then I'm going to have to make a comeback.' It's ridiculous. No.

I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown.

It's a shame to call somebody a 'diva' simply because they work harder than everybody else.

You have to stand up and say, 'There's nothing wrong with me or my shape or who I am; you're the one with the problem!'

I had a lovely pregnancy. It was a beautiful, magical time for us.

And I deal with all that by being like a perfectionist. But that's okay.

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