“You cannot show people only the petals and not the thorns. It’s not fair to them.”

I can’t work without my family being with me.

I thought doing reality TV would be the greatest success of my life or the biggest mistake.

You have to be emotionally attached to what you are doing.

I have failed so much, but I have learned so much more in life from my failures than my successes.

In life, no two days are the same for me. It’s like a snowflake.

If happiness were easy, everybody would feel it all the time, and it wouldn’t seem like such an elusive prize.

I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can’t manipulate fate.

New York City is my playground.

All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.

I’ve always been told I have a giant placenta.

I’m not overly focused on being loved by everybody.

I’m scared of the unknown future.

I didn’t binge when I was pregnant.

I don’t think it’s good to constantly talk about your own weight and the fact that you look fat in jeans.

I love pregnancy and the bump and the whole thing.

You have to work for everything. Marriage should not be any different.

Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals.