Ainsley Earhardt
Making a difference - and allowing God to use your gifts to change someone else's life - is truly the greatest joy you will ever experience.
The Make-A-Wish Foundation started with one wish out of Phoenix, Arizona, and the organization has grown so grand ever since.
Giving back to those in need is something that everyone on all sides of the political aisle can relate to, and it is beautiful to see people come together, especially during the holiday season.
Hopefully, my story will help change people's lives.
Honestly, I just love my life.
I enjoy makeup and having someone who does my hair. What female wouldn't?
I just wanted to be angelic and pure and nice and kind.
Hands down, 'The Family Man' is one of my favorite movies with Nicolas Cage and Tea Leoni. I've always loved that movie... it's pretty special. I also love 'It's a Wonderful Life,' and 'Home Alone' - I think it's really funny.
It's always nice to be around family.
I may have a very visible job that allows more than a million viewers to invite me and my fellow anchors into their homes every morning, but that doesn't make me famous, nor does my job entitle me to any kind of special privileges.
Not a day goes by that I don't look at myself in the mirror and ask God, 'Why me? Why did you choose me, Ainsley Earhardt from Columbia, South Carolina, to be one of a handful of female national news anchors?'
When I was five years old, I remember watching the opening of the Oscars with my mother and crying as I watched celebrities walk in on the red carpet. Why would any child cry watching the Oscars? For me, the reason was simple: I wanted to be there so badly that I burst into tears.
I attended theater camps and classes growing up, but there was never any talk of me making a life out of acting. My parents were much too practical and grounded for that.
I am southern - from the great state of South Carolina. They say, 'You can take the girl out of the South, but you can't take the South out of the girl.' And it's true.
I moved to New York City from Texas in 2007, where I lived for two years. Before that, I lived in South Carolina for the majority of my life.
Hard work really does pay off.
I started in local news in South Carolina, so viewers there supported me. We had a morning show that we put to No. 1, and then I moved to San Antonio, Texas, and we became the No. 1 morning show there, too.
I really thank the viewers; I don't take them all for granted.
Fox has always allowed us to be ourselves. They've never told us what we can say, what to say, what not to say.
I believe there's a place for goodness and love in everything I do.
Having faith allows me to try to be the best person I can be.
I am not perfect, but my faith keeps me as close to the straight and narrow as possible.
We are inflicting opinion in our newscasts like never before. That was never done and never taught in our journalism classes.
I've realized I'm not going to please everyone; not everyone's going to love me.
I would say... I'm a traditionalist.
My two grandfathers fought in World War II.
I love this country. I love tradition. And I just want to make sure our country's heading in the right direction.
When I really discovered who God was and had a firm relationship with him my junior year of college, I journaled constantly. All day long. I had boxes of journals. They were really just love letters to God, just thanking him and praying out loud and telling him my desires.
It's pretty cathartic for me to write a letter to God and tell him what I'm praying for that day or what I'm going through emotionally.
I don't think you can say yes to every opportunity and work the weekends and work the overnight shift unless you're really passionate about your job. So I encourage everyone to find their passion and go for it.
I wrote the children's books, and those were wonderful tributes to my life as a daughter and a mother and just a thank-you to my parents for all the lessons in life they had passed on to me that I could pass onto my child and to other kids around the world.
I wanted to be an actress at a very early age and then decided to become an orthodontist after working in Dr. Richard Boyd's office in high school.
My favorite foods are anything Italian.
I took so many different things away from my maternity leave. It taught me to have more compassion for other people and to see every individual as someone's child.
Having a baby makes me grateful that I work for a company that does give you four months' leave. And my heart breaks for women that don't get that time with their child. As a mom, you're just not ready to go back immediately - physically, you can't. You just need some time not only to bond, but you need some time to heal.
I had worked my way up at Fox. I started in 2007, working the overnight shift on the weekends. I would do one-minute news-of-the-day updates every hour on programs like 'Hannity.'
I got promoted to co-anchor of the early-morning show 'Fox & Friends First' in 2013.
We're all flawed, and no one is perfect.
If you look at the Kennedys, if you look at Bill Clinton, I think our country has decided or learned that we are all flawed, that we all have imperfections, and if all of that were revealed about each one of us, we would all be tainted.
I'm not here to make everyone love me. I wish they would.
The Unites States of America continues to represent life, liberty, and freedom. We believe in hard work and capitalism.
I am proud to live in this country, where anything is possible.
I lived on Nantucket in college during the summer and have spent a lot of time there since. It's a special place for me.
The bosses can't read your mind, so I think women should tell them what they want out of their careers. And so I think that if you're just a good person, you work hard, you say 'yes,' and you are driven, you will eventually work your way to the top. At least, that's how it's been for me.
I think I was afraid of being a mother for many reasons. I wanted to be a good mom, and I was fearful at one point of even working at the national level because I was afraid that I would disappoint a child or I wouldn't be as ready for a big position as maybe I should have been when I came to Fox.
No one wants to get up at 5 A.M.
Absolutely, yes, I'm proud of every woman, of every American, that makes her dreams come true.
I love steamed vegetables.
If you don't want an American flag flying at your school, why do you live in the USA?Collection: School