Age: 41.
Occupation: Actress/dancer.
Birthplace: Henderson, Texas.
Current home: Los Angeles.
Marital status: Married for nine years to Don Correia.
Children: Jeffrey, 5; and Mikey, 3 1/2.
Working on: Valerie’s Family, Monday nights on NBC.
The book I’ve been recommending lately is: Hot Flashes, by Barbara Raskin.
Favorite pigout foods: American cheese and my homemade potato salad.
Favorite performer: Fred Astaire.
Favorite childhood memory: My family went to New Mexico for Christmas when I was 12. I had never seen snow, and my father said, “We’ll drive until we see it.” We wound up getting snowed in in Santa Fe for a week.
Personal heroes: Margot Fonteyn and Katharine Hepburn.
Nobody knows I’m: Really kind of bawdy. I’m a party girl. We frequently take the kids and stay out until 1 a.m.
I wish I could stop: Worrying about death. I think about it every day. The whole subject baffles me. I give people a lot of credit for muddling through when they know how the story is going to end.
I hope I never have to: Ski.
I want to teach my children: To be nice but tough. It’s the old golden rule with a twist: If they keep coming at you, deck them.
People who knew me in high school thought I was: Very serious and a little dorky. I was the ballerina, always an outsider.
My most irrational act: Getting married when I was 21. I thought you had to be married to have sex. It lasted three years.
The worst time of my life: 1971, when I had a brain tumor and went through a divorce.
Behind my back my friends say: “She’s Little Miss Organized, and she always has to do everything herself.”
