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I really thought when I was pregnant with my first that it wouldn't affect my work at all; it would just be a baby that grows up on set. And I was absolutely wrong. For women, the high point of their career and needing to have babies just don't really go together.

Being pregnant is supposed to be the happiest time in your life.

Women need to understand that it is possible to stay in the workforce. A lot of women decide to take a back seat in their professional careers even before they are pregnant or are ready to have children.

Some women work while they are pregnant, but not me. That was a choice I had made. That's when I took a break. Men can work at whatever stage they are; whether they turn daddy, they still have their own thing. But women can't afford that because by being mothers, they have to be there for their kids.

You can't be partially pregnant.

Being a mother is no longer a liability, and being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition!

You don't want people to suffer or get fat when they're pregnant.

Most women get pregnant and even though it's a challenge physically and uncomfortable, they generally wanted to be pregnant.

In the pregnancy process I have come to realize how much of the burden is on the female partner. She's got a construction zone going on in her belly.