Parents, you need to watch who you let loose your girls around. If you're so desperate that you want your kids to be stars, and you're going to unleash your daughters to the world, you better watch what you get.

I think weddings are ridiculous.

In real life, I'm frugal. And, yes, I do love to shop at Marshall's.

I think the biggest issue for women in the workplace is men!

I didn't have the easiest childhood. I was never the popular girl in school growing up. I was always the lone black girl or the lone fat girl or the long tall girl, so that has made me more compassionate to all people. It also gave me the drive and ambition to go after my dreams in a big way.

The reason that it's so easy to go out there and be me - warts and all, critics and everything - is because my family and my career are the only two things that really matter in the big circle of life.

I enjoy leading a well-rounded life. Believe me, I don't take it for granted.

I treasure my privacy.

I wake up around 8 o'clock in the morning. I am an early riser.

It's not how you fall down or how low you go in life, but if you can get yourself up and set an example for even one person, then you've done your job.