My mom has this great skiing event in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, every year for a local charity.Collection: Mom
I don't believe in depriving myself of any food or being imprisoned by a diet.Collection: Diet
It's challenging, but you have to at least try to eat right and exercise.Collection: Fitness
I'm sure that my mom would have been happy with any path I chose.Collection: Mom
I didn't finish college, which is really weird because they awarded me the Alumni of Distinction recently.
I just believe that whatever you put into your system you're going to see on your face and your body.
But unfortunately, when you have a kid, you sometimes eat everything they leave behind. So far today I've had some of her leftover pancakes with peanut butter.
I was 2 when my parents - actress Connie Stevens and singer Eddie Fisher - divorced. I was too young to experience the pain of their split, but it was rough growing up with a father who wasn't there.
In 1987, when I was 19, I was studying musical theater at Boston's Emerson College. My sister, Tricia Leigh, told me about a summer acting retreat in Italy. Mom paid, so off we went.
When I had arrived in Italy, I had my CD Walkman and about 100 CDs. The song that spoke to me was Kate Bush's 'The Man With the Child in His Eyes,' from 1978.
I'm a storyteller, and everyone in this family expresses themselves through writing to get through life's milestones.
What I like to think I've done is try to teach all women and my three female daughters, to teach them to rise above stuff, to find things that move you, to bring humor and laughter to everything that you do, and to realize that no other person defines you. Find what's great about yourself, and band together as women.
I realized I am living an amazing, gorgeous, large life. I want to share this, and that includes the good, the bad, and the ugly.
My mom says it's an American version of the French name Jolie. My dad says I'm named after Al Jolson.
Eating vegetables makes me feel good.Collection: Vegetables