Anna Friel Quotes

I really wanted to be as healthy as I could. It wasn't about getting my six-pack back. There are more important things in life than a six-pack, I realized. It was just so much more important to take care of my baby and take care of myself in a healthy way; so now, it's been a slow process, but I'm back in shape.

I want to be as healthy as I can because I'm a mom now.

I really do feel like I'm in better shape and look better now - even after having three kids - than I did before.

Carrying a baby is such hard work, I've found that the stronger I am, the better I feel.

Even after having children, after five months I was dancing again, which was kind of crazy.

I love being a mom and having two kids. But I've had two C-sections, and I have suffered enough. That's my favourite mantra when it comes to motherhood.

I know that from my own experience, after I had my daughter Kelly, I felt great. I just wanted to get back on that court.

I was very active during both my pregnancies.

Becoming a mother has made me even more aware and more passionate about nutrition and wellness. So much so that I am now a certified health coach practitioner.

Our body is the only one we've been given, so we need to maintain it; we need to give it the best nutrition.

Milk is a really important part of my diet. For London, I had to be in the best shape of my life, and having milk every day played a part in that.

On weekends, I'm chasing my six-year-old girls around the city. That's my cardio!

I know my body needs to have the proper nutrition so that I can keep kicking at a high level. The same goes with sleep.

Pregnancy forces you to put your health first.

I try to work out twice a week. I don't restrict myself from any food in my diet; I think it's all about balance. I'm also very lucky with my genetics and metabolism.

When I was a kid growing up, I ate my vitamins, worked out because Hulk Hogan told me to.

At about 33 weeks along in my pregnancy, the doctor suggested that I stay pretty close to home and not be touring and flying around. I was really left to face the kind of deep thinking that comes along with being a mother and bringing a child into the world.

I think of exercise as the father of the body and nutrition as the mother.

I believe so strongly in what I do and I practice what I preach! My Dad died at fifty - do I have to die at fifty? My Dad ate all the junk food, he wouldn't exercise - how can you tell your Dad anything? We know about nutrition and we know about exercise. There's no reason for anybody to be sick and tired, fat and out of shape - it's ridiculous!

The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.

If you want to be treated like a mother, act like one.

Mother's milk leads to everything.

Being a working mommy is something I've always wanted to be. My mother is my biggest role model and she showed me how to do it right.

There are so many health nuts out there who eat nothing but natural foods but they don't exercise and they look terrible. Then there are other people who exercise like a son-of-a-gun but eat a lot of junk... Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you've got a kingdom.

He puts the chain with the locket around my neck, then rests his hand over the spot where our baby would be. “You’re going to make a great mother, you know,” he says. He kisses me one last time and goes back to Finnick.