I look at all the things life has allowed me to do, and I feel like the luckiest person in the world.

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

Having a child changes everything. All of a sudden you have so much to lose, so much to live for.

Sixty-five percent of Americans don't have the conversation with their children. So you're sending off boys and girls off to college, off to high school, off to wherever they go, and nobody's had the conversation about how to conduct themselves. About a man telling his son how to be a man. How to respect a woman. How do you respect yourself?

You know how you wake up in the morning and sometimes you look gorgeous and other times you look like you got hit by a mack truck? I realized that my mack truck is food. If I have no sugar, yeast or wine, I have no undereye bags and my skin is perfect.

I am grateful that I didn't let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness.

I'm an L.A. girl who became a tough New York cop.