Esther Williams

I was all in gold sequins for Million Dollar Mermaid, 50 feet in the air.

Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.

Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay.

It's an ear job, not an eye job.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.