I would eat 300 calories a day - a lot of Jell-O and no-sugar everything, of course. I was doing Pilates, weight-training, circuit training; over lunch I would run on a treadmill in my dressing room with a fan on my face so I wouldn't sweat my makeup off.

When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly.

Supermodels are over, and the new picture girl has become the television actress.

You don't have to be emaciated or vomiting to be suffering. All people who live their lives on a diet are suffering.

If your self-esteem really does depend on how you look you're always going to be insecure. There's no way you can get around it because you are going to age. Even if you get that perfect body you're going to get older and older and older. You can't avid it. So you have to somehow, at some point, take control and sift the focus and decide who you are, what you can contribute to the world, what you do and say, is so much more important than how you look.

I did a lot of fast talking as a youth; I was pretty good at it. I was never talked into it - I was always the one doing the talking.

I married him for a green card. We had a really great, caring relationship; it just obviously wasn't right for me.