1. Use Your Powers for Good
Fame helps with dinner reservations — that’s the number one thing! But seriously, if you use it correctly — for example, to bring attention to people in need — it can benefit the world. As you grow, you understand that.
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2. Prioritize What’s Precious
I had a job and career, but then I became a mom and that became my top priority. After Rizzoli & Isles ended in 2016, I told the girls I wouldn’t work on a show that took me away from them like that. And I haven’t.
3. Embrace Your Kin
I never really saw myself as a mom. But my girls are the coolest people I’ve ever met — hilarious, beautiful, all three of them. They are at the age — teenagers — where everyone else goes, “Ugh.” And I think to myself, Mine are kind of amazing.
4. Take Stock
I needed to do more than model, and acting was what I landed on. But I actually loved modeling. I look back now at those modeling days when I walked the Great Wall of China with Valentino and lived in Paris and in Milan — things I didn’t appreciate when they were happening — and think, Wow, I am so lucky. I have already lived an amazing life.
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