You know, when I am working, I take really, really good care of myself. I eat really well, and I exercise, and again, I have this team of people pulling me together every day.

My grandmother raised five children during the Depression by herself. At 50, she threw her sewing machine into the back of a pickup truck and drove from North Dakota to California. She was a real survivor, so that's my stock. That's how I want my kids to be too.

I decided I needed something that I could feel as passionate about as acting, and something in which I could completely lose myself. I started painting, and I'm still doing it.

Most people in the world have seen more of me on-screen than my kids have.

I'd been taking singing lessons and I had taken dance, because I loved to dance, but I had never considered myself a professional at all.

I still look like a duck.

I even had breasts that had mechanisms that could make them droop. It was a shock in the beginning. Talk about special effects!