I always look forward to introducing him to my friends, especially the ones with preconceived notions, because they meet a man with natural charm and no facade. In person, my father is so friendly, so considerate, so funny, and so real. My friends walk away with a glimpse of all that he is and all that he means to me -- of the strong, protective, kind, endearing man I am so proud to call my father.

Marla Maples

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What was a really private and nice relationship was judged and made to be something ugly.

Marla Maples

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Every story was being made up. My true friends weren't the ones speaking. It was people who never knew me, making up stories. Even my local paper put a $1,000 bounty out for information about my whereabouts.

Marla Maples

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The problem with losing your anonymity is that you can never go back.

Marla Maples

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When that man wants something, he'll stop at nothing to get it. And I also believed in the good of him.

Marla Maples

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If we could have somehow stayed away from the public and the press, it might have been different, but every private issue seemed to be played out on the front page.

Marla Maples

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When I was 18, I joined the Screen Actors Guild, and after college I came to New York.

Marla Maples

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I'm not a big believer in a thing called luck. I believe it has a lot to do with fate and just really having a vision of the way you would see your life.

Marla Maples

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I think what he loved about me the most was that I wasn't part of that world. But once we were together publicly, he wanted to change me into that social animal.

Marla Maples

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I was homecoming queen. I was star of my basketball team.

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My personal life was fair game. And that's what hurt me.

Marla Maples

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This relationship is going to be built on trust.

Marla Maples

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I don't think he cheated on me. During the marriage, I think he was there.

Marla Maples

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I have a little baby. She knows who I am. My friends know. My family knows.

Marla Maples

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I went to work. That was a turning point. When you have to do eight shows a week and your name is on the marquee, no matter what is going on at home or what's on the cover of the newspapers, you've got to do your job.

Marla Maples

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I created a production company. Right now I am so happy in my work.

Marla Maples

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My daughter is back here wanting to get to know her dad and spend more time with him, and I have to really respect that, and I do respect that in every way.

Marla Maples

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She couldn't pronounce my name, but she was asking me if I was Moola or whatever . . . and she just asked if I was the one who had been loving her husband for years. . . . I didn't want to scream, it was obvious she wasn't happy.

Marla Maples

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I don't think that there's anything that we go through, good, bad or daily stuff, that we can't share with each other and enjoy and support and love each other, we've known each other for almost 30 years now. When you are as close to people as we are to each other, for that long, you become a family. We support and love each other no matter what.

Marla Maples

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I look back at old photographs and videotapes, and I go, Who was I trying to be? Who was I doing this for?

Marla Maples

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Donald and I still really wanted to be together, but I was fighting to keep what we had privately, and once the world gets involved in your life, little by little it breaks it down until you forget what it was in the first place.

Marla Maples

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