I wanted to be a ballerina as a child - I had a tutu, and I used to stage my own ballets in our front room with my family as the audience.

I'm used to hearing myself. My own voice.

I was always an Olsen. I never thought of myself as a Brady. I never actually wanted to be a Brady. I always preferred my own family to the Bradys.

I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own.

No one could save me from the grief of losing my child or losing my first marriage. I had to do that on my own.

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.