Quotes from Jaime Pressly

So many Hollywood actresses become successful and then just keep on going - they miss out on having a partner and a baby and end up lonely.

We all have baggage. The question is: What baggage can you deal with?

I used to perform with the Pussycat Dolls before Nicole Scherzinger, before they were a musical group.

I have a really great group of fans. I've been very blessed.

I think it's sexy when women have shapely bodies.

I used to go around the country performing. I was in my 20s; I had no fear. But then I had a baby, and all of sudden, your life, your world changes; you change.

If you want to do something, just do it. No one is going to do it for you.

Your core supports your spine and your torso. Everything you do depends on it.

The truth is, working on single camera, show or film, you have no life. You work 60-80 hours a week. You're up before your kid gets up, and you're home when they go to sleep.

Jason Lee and Ethan Suplee are like my brothers. If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't have gotten through my pregnancy.

Determination is kind of like rhythm: you can't teach it.

I don't know anybody that has a teenage son or daughter who at some point hasn't been like, 'God, I hate them' just under their breath. It's not meant to be literal. It's funny.

Southern people are raised with a work ethic. My son is 5 years old and does chores. My mom was a dance teacher, and the training and discipline it takes to be a dancer I've carried with me in Hollywood.

I have worked so hard since I was 15 years old, all because I wanted to be a mom.

As a dancer, I'd dance with broken toes. Just like acting, you compete with yourself and drive forward. That discipline helped in Hollywood.

Everything I did and continue to do happens for a reason, and honestly, I don't regret much in my life.

I do think being a prissy tomboy helps me in raising a son in general. I wrestle with him, play ball, play in the sandbox with him. As a mom, you get bruises, scrapes on your knee.

I love my body. And if I didn't, I'd get on the Stair Master

I've always had an interest in design, and I have always loved creating things.

I performed in public for the first time at three years old. I remember it like it was yesterday. It was on a big stage. There were probably three or four hundred people in the audience. We were doing this dance, this Kermit the Frog routine, all of us in our little green leotards.

I'm blessed with a great memory. To be honest, a lot of times, being on my own at such a young age, my memories were all I had. I didn't have many pictures.

Some women just skip having babies or adopt because they don't want to get fat or they haven't put in the time to find a partner. It's great to adopt, but a lot of adoptions are motivated by vanity and laziness.

Being invisible would be pretty great. You could watch everybody, sneak into places and know what people were saying.

The truth is that I love my baby to bits, but the rest of it sucked. Pregnancy was the biggest killer for me. I hated it - I hated being fat.