The biggest ingredient in a best friend is someone whose actions you respect and who you can truly be yourself around.

Growing up in the entertainment industry, I've had a lot of people tell me I'm not good enough.

The biggest ingredient in a best friend is someone whose actions you respect and who you can truly be yourself around.

Picking a best friend who stands up for what she believes in, is true to herself and allows you to be yourself without judgement of how 'cool' you are? Well, now you're picking a friend for life.

When I was 12, I first made the decision to go vegetarian after a co-star's line 'I don't eat anything with a face' suddenly shocked me into reality.

I encourage all of you to seek out teachers and mentors that challenge you to think for yourself and guide you to find your own voice.

The more I read and watched about the meat industry, the more determined I became to keep meat out of my diet. The things I saw in slaughterhouse exposes made me feel sick and I refused to just ignore what I now knew.