At age nine my twin sister Heidi and I lived with our single mother near the 59th Street Bridge, and I remember seeing a homeless man lying in the street. I thought he was insane or too lazy to get a job. After all, my mother kept it together by...

As Kristin Davis' stand-in on Sex and the City, I was required to be the same height and have the same color hair as the star. I knew I'd never to be seen like a body double, but I was still excited to work on the set. When I arrived,...

Jennifer Lopez sat across from me inside the parked Rolls-Royce. The cinematographer of The Backup Plan inspected her face for shadows and told me to turn away from camera. I was her co-star Michaela Watkins's body double and only supposed to be seen from the back. Jennifer Lopez adjusted her...

I walked down Fifth Avenue, thinking about Obama's latest plan to aid homeowners suffering through the foreclosure crises when I passed a church and saw a family huddled on the steps. A boy around twelve years old held out his hand begging for a buck. They had a...

A few weeks after the Sex and the City rejection, (see Sex and the Bump) the casting director called and asked if I was available for extra work on the new Robert Pattinson's film, Remember Me.

"You know I'm pregnant right?" I said into the phone receiver.

"Yes,...

Tim Burton's up-coming film, Alice in Wonderland asks the question, "What if Alice was older and she went back?" Which got me thinking: what if we all returned to a magical time in our childhoods? Would we discover our true selves?

As the subway rumbled past my old neighborhood,...

"Would you be interested in extra work on Sex and the City 2 tomorrow?" the casting director said on the phone.

"I'd love to," I said. Over the past fifteen years, I had worked steadily with her casting agency and was excited to return to my favorite...