Don't Push Your Weaknesses, Play With Your

It Was Easy To Blame Other People For Treating Me In Ways I Didn't Like, But Now I Was Seeing That I Was The One At Fault. The Only Way You Can Be Mistreated Is By Allowing Yourself To Be Mistreated, And That Was Something I Did Over And Over Again. Somehow, I Needed To Find That Glimmer Of Self-respect, Buried Deep Inside, That Would Allow Me To Say: I Am Never Going To Let That Happen To Me Again. I Needed To Learn How To Stand Up For Myself In A Different Way, But I Didn't Know How.

[after The Twins' Birth,] I Spent Two Years Doing Nothing. I Was A Wife And A Mom. But You Need That Time To Grow. You Can't Be Afraid Of, 'oh, I'm Out Of The Public, Then I'm Going To Have To Make A Comeback.' It's Ridiculous. No.

And I Never Ask What I'm Doing The Next Day. I Don't Want To Know What I'm Doing Tomorrow. It's Much Too Overwhelming. So I Just Go Day By Day, Without Knowing.

I've Always Been Asked The Question, "what Is It With Australian Men?" It's Weird Because Most Of My Friends Here [in The United States] Are American Men. I Think There's Cultural Differences. It's A Really American Thing To Kind Of Wax Your Chest. As A Man It's Like, "get Rid Of That Unsightly Hair!" In Australia It's Like, "mate, What Are You Doing? Why Would You Do That? Doesn't That Hurt?" So There's A Few Little Differences That Keep Us.

I Had A Lovely Pregnancy. It Was A Beautiful, Magical Time For Us.