My mother's career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone's buddy, always smiling for the cameras.

There is something about cameras that always makes me smile.

I've totally embraced it. I like Princess Leia. I like how she was feisty.

She has been more than a mother than me - not much, but definitely more... She's been an unsolicited stylist, interior decorator and marriage counselor... Admittedly, I found it difficult to share my mother with her adoring fans, who treated her like she was part of their family.

I started out doing my mother's nightclub act, and I had stage fright.

I overheard people saying, 'She thinks she's so great because she's Debbie Reynolds' daughter!' And I didn't like it; it made me different from other people, and I wanted to be the same.