I've never had a job where I've come in every day in my entire life ! and I think' Dancing with the Stars,' what's great is, because it's live and we just judge, I show up after' The Talk.' It works out perfectly ! I couldn't have asked for a more ideal situation.

Carrie Ann Inaba

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I love fresh fruit and vegetables. I'm not a strict dieter. I don't think that anything in life should be so regimented that you're not having fun or can't enjoy like everybody else. Just know that fresh food is always going to be better for you.

Carrie Ann Inaba

vegetables fun thinking

I have this firm belief that I am who I am for a reason. If I change something, I'm cheating myself of whatever it is I'm supposed to learn from my body. You know, I'm legally blind. I'm 20/750, since I was in fifth grade. I wear glasses and contacts. But I won't even get LASIK.

Carrie Ann Inaba

glasses who-i-am cheating

Love is the one thing in life that makes everything worthwhile.

Carrie Ann Inaba

worthwhile things-in-life love-is

I wasn't a ballet baby. My first dance class was in an outdoor pavilion when I was three. It was called 'creative movement.' The teacher gave us chiffon scarves in beautiful colors. She turned on some music and said, 'Now go dance.' So for me, dance has always been about self-expression.

Carrie Ann Inaba

beautiful teacher baby

I went through this phase where I thought pink and purple matched. To dance class, I'd wear purple tights and pink leg warmers and paint my shoes purple. It was really odd.

Carrie Ann Inaba

purple shoes class

I've always gone out with much younger guys. But I rushed into relationships before really getting to know the person. What would come up as a warning sign within the first two weeks of dating would usually be the exact reason the relationship would end!

Carrie Ann Inaba

dating guy two

I’ve really become super active in rescuing animals, and it has made my life feel so much better. I can’t even express to you how happy it has made me.

Carrie Ann Inaba

made feels animal

JLo and I did not get along well when we worked together. I don't think there's love lost. I don't know if there was a lot of love from the very beginning.

Carrie Ann Inaba

lost-love together thinking

My grandmother used to cook for eight every day - sitting down lunches and dinner, the way you do it in Italy, you sit down. And when my parents could afford their own place, I went with them but still my mother used to work but used to come back from work to cook lunch for my father, come back from work, cook dinner for my father and me.

Carrie Ann Inaba

eight mother father

My mother, on Sundays, used to prepare things to use during the week, like freshly made broth. It wasn't chicken stock or pasta sauces. She always made her own homemade pasta. So, the amount of dedication that goes into what these people used to do - it was a long time ago but you come to appreciate the hard work and the care about little things.

Carrie Ann Inaba

sunday hard-work mother

My poor vision gives me a soft-focus morning. For the first half hour, I kind of wander through my house, and everything is a blur. I put my contacts in when I'm ready to deal with the world.

Carrie Ann Inaba

house morning giving

Often, I dream about work. For instance, the night before the Oscars, I dreamt about the Oscars and I dreamt about who I wanted to interview. Interestingly, one of the people I really wanted to interview was Keanu Reeves, and then we got him. We had never interviewed him before, so that was lucky. Or maybe it was fate - I don't know.

Carrie Ann Inaba

fate dream night

Somehow when I express my voice, I feel that much more vulnerable. For instance, if I used the wrong word, or if I said something and somebody could take the word and misinterpret it.

Carrie Ann Inaba

vulnerable voice said

I really do want to have a child.

Carrie Ann Inaba

want children

I do a one-hour workout called Drenched, a cardio-boxing fitness routine, Monday through Friday. There are usually between twenty-five and fifty people there - everyone from stay-at-home moms and professional martial artists to teenagers and seniors. They play great dance music. When I can, I take two classes back-to-back.

Carrie Ann Inaba

senior friday mom

During the first couple of years of 'Dancing with the Stars,' I would go to Jack in the Box in my ball gown after the shows and get the Taco Nachos with cheese as my reward.

Carrie Ann Inaba

couple stars years

I started my career as a singer in Japan, but left it all behind to focus on my dancing career.

Carrie Ann Inaba

japan careers dancing

I come from a dancing background, and I know it's stereotypical, but I would dance because I wasn't comfortable speaking to people.

Carrie Ann Inaba

backgrounds dancing people

I have arthritis. The space around my spinal cord has become compressed.

Carrie Ann Inaba

spinal-cord-injuries arthritis space

I love pets and I love animals, and I just got a new puppy, a new rescue named Peanut. She's a tiny little Chihuahua mix.

Carrie Ann Inaba

pet littles animal