I am always trying to evolve, so I like to read parenting books and things like that.

Interior decor is my guilty pleasure. If I'm going to splurge on something, it's more for my home than for clothes.

I'm short, and I always need to alter everything, and I alter a lot of what I wear.

I've learned to set boundaries and know when to say, 'I just need to rest.' I'm good at listening to what my body's telling me.

Being alone & actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.

There's no one else I would rather have as my manager than my mom because I know that she has our best interests at heart. Sometimes, it's hard to separate manager mode from mom mode. I think as our manager, my mom will get more emotional about situations than she would if she was just our manager.

I remember, when I went away to college at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, my aunt sent me a book with the rules of being a Southern Belle. One of the rules was to never wear white after Labor Day. Fashion has a lot to do with confidence and making up your own rules.

I have oatmeal every morning with whole milk, bananas, and cinnamon, and it's just the best thing ever.

My best friend and I went to sleep-away camp every summer. We'd share stories of making out with boys, but we never did, so we made it all up. My real first kiss was at a friend's house when I was in junior high. He was such a good kisser, and we're still close friends!

An emergency on the labour ward needs to be addressed within minutes or else lifelong disability or even death can follow for the baby or mother.

You see, the thing about us humans is we overcomplicate things. To eat, our food manufacturing processes work on a huge scale, clearing land, rearing livestock, killing it, packaging it. Go big, only to shrink it all back down to small enough to shove in our mouths.

Motivation levels differ person to person, as does the time since failing new year resolutions.

Forget quantitative easing - I've always thought the idea of injecting virtual money into the system is an accident waiting to happen.

Growing up as the youngest daughter to immigrant parents, it was instilled in me from an early age to not be wasteful and to be respectful of money and possessions.

When we oldies were kids, there was little on offer, food wise, particularly for people with restricted diets.

About the only useful thing my economics degree taught me was that, in all decisions in life, you have to do a cost-benefit analysis.

I'm all for education - in fact, I have spent my career extolling its virtues.

Having seen many of my friends go through the trial of trying month after month to conceive, then finally the joy of getting pregnant followed by the heartbreak of miscarriage, I know how lonely and isolating it can be to have to go back to square one carrying that heartbreak with you.

Increased tariffs and a weakened pound would mean higher food prices, hurting the poorest families - and the women trying to make ends meet at the heart of them - the most.

A serious economic downturn will undermine women's rights on multiple levels. And it is the women who are already the most disadvantaged, that will be hit hardest of all.

In a 24/7 landscape of rolling news, social media, phone alerts and notifications it's all too easy to feel numbed by all the shouting.

In the UK we have general elections roughly every four or five years because we know circumstances, situations and therefore opinions change over time.

My husband has a wife who is happy to wander round in old leggings held up with worn elastic. I'm happy with who I am and I'm more concerned with other issues and trying any way I can to make a better world for our children.

Being a 'Blue Peter' presenter is not well paid.