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.

Once I married Fernando, I became invisible.

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.