When you see a girl like me bustin' perps, there ain't no time to be pretty.

I am proud to be a role model for my viewers. I am finding out that helping victims is as or more rewarding the all the awards I win.

I'm just grateful that my body is healthy. I want to be on this planet for a long time, so I try to eat things that make me feel good and make me strong. But I also love food and I love life: Some days having that extra bowl of pasta and a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup means more to me than being thin.

When I was pregnant, I was so huge and people on the bus would get up for me. That made me feel so precious and valued and valuable. I try to treat everyone like they're pregnant.

Italian culture is so deeply soaked in an appreciation of the good things in life.

No one can take away your pain, so don't let anyone take away your happiness.

I have a more developed sense of my priorities. Life has so much more meaning now.