She explains what she is trying to do with her TV series:' I wanted to deal honestly with a woman character who is in her prime -- sexually and in every other way. My age is the best time there is to be a woman. It used to be middle-aged woman simply vanished. Look at me. I'm a spokesperson for a hair care product. I'm less of a sexual object. It's kind of a relief not to be recognised just for my sexuality and beauty. ‘They used to say 35 was a woman's sexual prime. Listen, 40 is when it reall starts to get good. For me it was about getting over the fear of saying what excites me. It was about finding a man you can feel safe with and tell what you like, who will tell you what he likes. ‘It's only taken me twenty years to figure all this out. Twenty years to figure out how to be myself.' And that is what she's being. She has a pair of plastic breasts stuck to the ceiling of her dressing room. Her own are equally noticeable: ‘My first ex-husband asked our daughter if I'd had a boob job after he saw the pilot show and I thought that was wonderful -especially since I hadn't had to go to all that trouble. It was just one of those amazing Frederick 's bras that was very reasonable. Eighteen dollars. They're great. It's called The Captivator. Or The Procrastinator. I don't know. Well, you could procrastinate while you're captivating I guess. I strongly recommend them. ‘I went through a period when I saw myself aging. I certainly more aware of aging than ever before but beauty is as beauty does. That was drilled into my head as I was growing up. I work out but it's never gotten so bad where I'm living on only asparagus. I've never been anorexic. You can tell by looking at me. When I was modelling they had to tear the clothes to get them on me. I'm a big American girl. ‘But you have to work out unless you go through one of those gruesome tummy tucks which they say is so painful. And once you start where do you stop? Fix your stomach and what are you going to do about your ass? ‘I hate the idea of plastic surgery. I don't want to say never but it's important to me to learn to love the physical aspects of aging myself.' It's taken her a long time to love Bruce Willis. Now, she is philosophical but during the four year run ( from 1985 to 1989 ) of ‘Moonlighting' there was much turmoil and an ongoing feud between the co-stars. Her memory is selective for a moment as she says of the series that brought her back from the dead:' I loved every moment of it.' Pause. ‘What am I saying? You want to know which minutes I didn't love, right? It was like the best of times and the worst of times ‘ We used to have fights before we had fights on screen and that went for a year and a half before we realised that was our method of acting. I became a success as a model when I was 18. But on ‘' Moonlighting'' Bruce was going through that first success and I had to pay for it. I took the success for granted. For Bruce to suddenly go from not being successful to appearing to get everything that you want was very stressful. ‘I've never had a problem standing up for myself but it was like what Bette Davis said -- and man does that and he's admired, a woman does that and she's a bitch.
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