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" People relate to you so well because you&amp;#039;re so real. How do you stay grounded?   I was raised with a decent work ethic and, more important, a great sense of humor. I never took anything  too seriously in life. I think you gotta be a hard worker too. It&amp;#039;s continuously humbling to work hard, you  know? As long as you&amp;#039;ve got a good work ethic and a sense of humor, I don&amp;#039;t think anybody can become too  much of an egoist under those circumstances.   Are you one of those people who prefers to keep busy  all the time?  Yeah, I can&amp;#039;t really sit idle. I don&amp;#039;t mind if it&amp;#039;s a rainy day watching TV all day  in bed with my dog. That&amp;#039;s fun. But generally speaking, unless it&amp;#039;s pouring rain outside, or unless I&amp;#039;m  really, really sick, it freaks me out to kind of be still. The best I can do is write when I go on vacation,  which is a fairly quiet activity. I&amp;#039;ll write the books or recipes or whatever.   Since you&amp;#039;re so  busy, do you tend to have time to see your friends?  I never had a ton of girlfriends or boyfriends  &amp;#039;cause I work a lot. I always have. And some of my closest friends I work with, so we see each other when  I&amp;#039;m at work and, you know, I&amp;#039;ve got a couple of friends from back in the day. We really just talk on the  phone once every few months and we see each other maybe once or twice a year &amp;#039;cause I just work a ton,  so...  Speaking of working a lot, what are you going to cover on your latest gig, a new morning  show?   A real-life friend of mine, Gretchen Monahan, is gonna come on every time we talk about girly stuff, like  spas and fashion and stuff like that &amp;#039;cause it&amp;#039;s not my bag, and she won&amp;#039;t take it personally when I make  fun of her about it, you know? So people will still get the content, but I don&amp;#039;t have to take it seriously,  &amp;#039;cause I don&amp;#039;t. And then whenever we talk about astrology and stuff, my mom&amp;#039;s gonna come on and give her  advice versus the star advice. It&amp;#039;s funny stuff like that. Everything in the show has a real sense of humor.  We&amp;#039;re gonna do a lot more \u2014 like, I love giving entertaining advice and how to throw parties, and  gift-giving advice, that kind of thing, but not so much the big decorating stuff, you know?   Is your home decor pretty relaxed and chill?    Yeah, my home is in upstate New York, and that&amp;#039;s kind of very rustic and kind of Italian country \u2014 sort of beat-up lookin&amp;#039;. And then my place in the city is more eclectic. It&amp;#039;s got a lot of modern stuff  mixed in with kind of old-timey stuff, and it&amp;#039;s got a real fun vibe.   Are kids going to be part of your show in any way?   I love being around kids, and they&amp;#039;re going to be a huge part of the show. I&amp;#039;m starting up this charity \u2014 it&amp;#039;s a three-layer operation. We want to feed hungry children, vocationally train kids who want to go into  food for a living, and have an awareness campaign like what Jamie Oliver&amp;#039;s done in the U.K., you know. Get  kids more interested in what they&amp;#039;re eating when they&amp;#039;re at school and at home, both. All of our walls here  \u2014 and our refrigerator \u2014 are covered with kids&amp;#039; art, and kids write us their recipes all the time. We have  cooking-with-kids segments here and there, and we go and get kids&amp;#039; opinions on a lot of stuff. I love  talking to kids. They&amp;#039;re very self-effacing; they have a great sense of humor.   As far as your beauty routine goes, do you feel like you&amp;#039;re high maintenance, low  maintenance, middle of the line?   No maintenance \u2014 other than moisturizers. I slather on gallons of them. It&amp;#039;s just the way I was raised. My  mom taught my sister and me to start using moisturizers when we were still teenagers, you know. I use eye  cream and good facial wash and tons of potions and lotions and goop on my face, and that&amp;#039;s about it! [As for  exercise,] I do sit-ups and push-ups at home, and that&amp;#039;s about it. I have a gym card, but I never go there.  It&amp;#039;s a front. I pay for the membership every couple of years, thinking I&amp;#039;ll be embarrassed enough to go. But  every time I go, there&amp;#039;s like people twice my age that look twice as good!   Is there anything you refuse to spend a lot of money on?  If somebody handed me a check for $2 million tomorrow and said you can&amp;#039;t keep this unless you go  and spend it all in one day, then I&amp;#039;d probably give it back. Because I think that in everything in life,  there&amp;#039;s a limit for me. Shoes, I&amp;#039;ll spend a couple hundred I would never spend ... I mean, they have shoes out  there that cost $1,200 to $1,500 dollars for a pair! I mean, no matter what the category is, there&amp;#039;s  always something. There&amp;#039;s a limit for me with anything. I grew up not a have-not but certainly a  check-to-checker, and there&amp;#039;s just a certain amount of, you know ... I&amp;#039;m not about poor or cheap or being  thrifty, but I am about value. I don&amp;#039;t mind spending more money on something as long as I know the intrinsic  value of that thing. For me, it&amp;#039;s always more about quality than about the price point.   Here&amp;#039;s where you can get  tickets to see her show. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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