I wanted to be an astronaut and wanted to go to space camp, but then I found out that I was too short to become an astronaut. My mom really made me believe that if I worked hard enough and if I really wanted to do it, I could do it.

For me, I just want to feel great. But carrying the extra pounds started to weigh me down - literally. I want to encourage moms to feel good about themselves. I think it's important to empower ourselves. We have kids and we love our kids. But we still have ourselves. And I want to feel like the best version of myself. That's why I turned to Nutrisystem.

I have those moments with my kids and family where we try to unplug and just be in the moment. We put everything else to the side and just be there with our family.

I love social media and the ability to connect to new people through Twitter and Facebook and share my real time experiences with my mommy network.

We can all become activists and raise questions.

Eventually, I'll go back to acting, but for right now, my children are the most important thing in the world to me.

I love, I love human beings, studying them.