That feeling of being 19 or 20 and 'hot' in Hollywood was so intense.

North Hollywood isn't actually Hollywood, it's in the San Fernando Valley... it's not the most glamorous part of L.A.

Most people grow up dreaming of going to Hollywood and some of them work and work and work and finally end up in Hollywood.

I wasn't ecstatic about being pregnant - I wasn't somebody who actively wanted kids. Certainly there were no fantasies about nappy-changing.

I had reconciled myself to being happily out to pasture, a bit.

In today's world, we all live with the burden of feeling that anything is possible if we're only clever enough, smart enough, work hard enough.