Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.

I've always heard that you'll know, but I never understood it. With Peter, we even broke up after we dated for a year, for two or three months, but I still knew. I knew there was something different about this union. Even through the hard times, it was like "How are we going to get through this?

I want to be a fun mom. Not a gasping for air mom.

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.

To me, the definition of sexy - at any age - is strength and confidence.

In life you have two choices. You can laugh or you can cry. You have to laugh, you have to.

If I can play a little part in the world's healing, and making it a better place than when I came, then I just thank God for that chance.