Quotes from Ginger Zee

Ideal day is a hot and humid morning, tornadoes develop, no one gets hurt, and we get to collect data and chase the tornadoes.

To tell your story, you have to include others.

I didn't choose to get anorexia. I may have made some childhood-like choices to try to control something. 'I know what I'll do: I'll just not eat.' That was the initial point, but then it spiraled and became a disease - not a choice by any means.

I have to listen to my body - and it's telling me not to run long distances. So how do you train for a race when you know you won't have the same result as before? And should you even join if you know you can't run the whole race? Absolutely - just run-walk it.

I started storm-chasing at a young age.

I find home renovations almost traumatic. But people can create something great.

If someone hurts me on social media, I want to tell them that they've hurt me. I believe you should say what you're feeling. We should all do that, but what I've also realized is that even a negative comment is from a person who is trying to reach out. When I reply, maybe I'm reminding them that there's a deeper meaning to what they're doing.

I was, am, and likely forever will be a huge mess.

I always had becoming a meteorologist as my goal from the second I decided, while I was in school, just to study meteorology.

Like most women, I want to stay fashionable during my pregnancy - and on TV, that means coming up with something new to wear every day for at least five months.

I grew up a 'Ginger,' and I liked having a somewhat unique name.

People can say whatever they want about me. They can call me ugly. But don't talk about my child.

Making it to the finale of 'Dancing with the Stars' has been a major accomplishment.

My stepfather and his large family - The Crafts - are from Chicago, so Chicago has always been home for me.

I fought a disease. I fought a disease called depression that a lot of people fight every single day. And unlike other diseases, there is a stigma surrounding it.

The eye of the hurricane forms as air rotates up and out of the hurricane and some of the air that's being spun out of the top of the storm sinks back into the center. This keeps the eye of the storm relatively calm and clear.

I understand the atmosphere better than I ever did before. You feel the thermals while paragliding. You are in the clouds. Chasing a storm puts you in front of the cloud, not a book. I hope to learn as I do these things.

My professional life, in a strange way, has always been going up, up, up, while my personal life was just the complete opposite.

Depression, for me, has been a couple of different things – but the first time I felt it, I felt helpless, hopeless, and things I had never felt before. I lost myself and my will to live.

There have been struggles and challenges that I have faced that few know about but I hope will help others going through the same thing.

Parents just want their baby to be happy and healthy, and we're giving every ounce of ourselves to do that.

I love the challenge of any adventure.

The moments before I fall asleep are when my list of things to do attacks my brain.