3 December 2020 Jane Smiley Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My aunts were smokers. My uncles were smokers. I don’t know any smokers now, not even my mom.
3 December 2020 LeAnn Rimes I want to make my music and be a happy woman, a good wife, a good mom and one day hopefully have a child of my own.
3 December 2020 Ben Affleck My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I’m 31-years-old, and I don’t want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It’s humiliating.
3 December 2020 Sprague Grayden If you just stay away from junk, and stick with what your mom taught you, you’re eating pretty healthy.
3 December 2020 Gwen Stefani I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella.
3 December 2020 Jessica Szohr I have a very close relationship with my mom, and I’m able to talk to her about anything.
3 December 2020 will.i.am I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.
3 December 2020 Janice Dickinson Mothers don’t let your daughters grow up to be models unless you’re present.
3 December 2020 Elena Anaya I love to fly. I always wanted to fly. It’s been one of my dreams since I was 3 years old. I remember saying to my mom, 3 years old, every day, ‘I can fly!’ Living on the ninth floor, it was dangerous.
3 December 2020 Patricia Heaton I spend as much time with my kids as any mom who stays home. I only work during the hours they’re at school, but there is always the sense of trying to catch up with all their stuff and not only organize my work life but also their school lives.
3 December 2020 Sara Paxton When I was 12 I cried to my mom, because I never got my letter to Hogwarts.
3 December 2020 Lana Parrilla I never liked apples. In fact, when I was a little girl, my mom wanted to give me apples in my lunch box and I would ask for green peppers. So bizarre… It’s funny – I don’t have an apple a day, but I can say that I have a few a week.
3 December 2020 Rachael Ray My mom, who’s been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love.
3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette I could get away with not taking care of myself as a bachelorette but as a mom I can’t.
3 December 2020 Ricky Skaggs I always had a standard of, back when I was doing the country music I always told people I would never record a song that I wouldn’t sit down and sing in front of my mom and dad.
3 December 2020 Linda Cardellini I think I’m going to spend some time learning how to be a first-time mom, and then I’ll go back to work.
3 December 2020 Heidi Klum I’m a lioness. I have four cubs. I’m a mom. I want to take care of my kids and protect them.
3 December 2020 Ethel Merman Mom claimed that I could carry a tune at 2 or 3 years of age. Maybe she was a little prejudiced.
3 December 2020 Michelle Rodriguez I was born in Texas and I lived there ’till I was 8. Then I moved to the Dominican Republic with my mom, lived there for two years and forgot every word of English I knew.
3 December 2020 Henry Louis Gates My mom, God rest her soul – she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va., and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip, and I was Little Skip.
3 December 2020 Petra Ecclestone My mom came from such humble beginnings and especially my dad as well. He didn’t go to university.
3 December 2020 Cynthia Nixon We’ve all seen the mom who devotes all her time and attention to her child and is so hungry for adult interaction that as soon as she’s around another adult, she’s not paying attention anymore.
3 December 2020 Scott Wolf I got tackled once in a movie theater. I was with my mom and brother, and then suddenly I got hit from behind and sort of sprawled out on the candy counter.
3 December 2020 Lara Stone My mom didn’t use face cream, like, nothing at all. She’s got great skin and looks very youthful.
3 December 2020 Melanie Roach I’ve been a pretty selfish mom and a very unselfish athlete for about three years now and it’s time to put my family first. It’s probably time to move on.
3 December 2020 Lee Ann Womack It’s hard either way, at home or on the bus, I think the hardest thing probably for me is going one second from being mom to right out on the stage and having to be that person too. It’s hard to switch gears.
