I tell this to my girls all the time: This journey we're on is a once - in - a - lifetime opportunity.

I was out there meeting with a lot of working moms and whenever I would gather a group of women, there was always a voice that was unfamiliar to me, and it was the voice of a military spouse, oftentimes a woman, oftentimes working, many times in a position where they've had to move every two or three years, where their kids have had to change school multiple times, people dealing - families dealing with multiple deployments, dealing with the stresses of reconnection.

I grew up on the south side of Chicago in a working class community. There were no miracles in my life, there's nothing miraculous about how I grew up, and I want people to know when they look at me, to be clear that they see what an investment in public education can look like.

I can make choices that make me happy, and it will ripple and benefit my kids, my husband, and my physical health. That's hard for women to own; we're not taught to do that.

I would be depressed if I felt I could never eat the things that I love. I also don't want my girls to be obsessed about food.

People are always going to have opinions, and people have a right to their opinions.

But we need a medical community that's trained and knowledgeable and working on advancement.