Hair, in fact, is probably the bane of most women's lives.

Doing 20 minutes of stretching, light weights and floor exercises three times a week takes the same amount of time as a long coffee break - and eating a tuna fish salad, sardines on toast or scrambled eggs is surely preferable to a Big Mac or KFC.

I'm extremely happy in my life. I consider myself to be very blessed.

My parents instilled in me that life was going to be very difficult and that I'd have to work for everything.

And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I was 17. So there wasn't much time.

There are very few designers in Hollywood today who know how to really flatter a woman's body, and Mark Zunino is at the top of my list.

I do all my own make-up, it takes me 10 minutes.