I started coming into my own at 30, discovering what's important to me, not caring what other people think.

I wanted to be the female Jim Carrey.

It's very strange. I can't go anywhere without somebody stopping me, which is so cool that I get to connect to people that I never might've ever spoken to, or they have an impetus to speak to me. It's created a career that I wasn't sure if I'd ever really have.

Most of my stuff comes from Eloquii, Torrid, Lane Bryant - even Target!

What studies say the number one best way to start an exercise habit is to give yourself a reward that you genuinely enjoy.

Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of Health. Perhaps because his wife was a poet, Ira Pastan agreed to take me into his laboratory, despite my lack of scientific credentials.

I do know that I think children should be vaccinated because that affects the health of all the other children.

Lawmakers imagine they can be political heroes by voting for budgets that slash scientific research by 20 percent, but they inhibit our ability to respond to health crises.