Joni Edelman

You should know that she is a really awesome human.

As long as I can remember having paid attention to the media, I can remember a woman's weight—or body in general—being a news story.

Good god, where will I ever find someone who will love me in such a pitiful condition?

She says she’s worried that the cat, whose name is Jack, doesn’t know what’s going on. She tried to explain to him that she was leaving for a while.

All boobs are good boobs. And all areola too!

Sam: The first time you mentioned that you have five kids I was like WHAT THE ACTUAL. FIVE HUMANS. FIVE HUMANS CAME OUT OF YOU. Like, not at the same time, but they came out and like, that sounds painful and scary WHY DID YOU DO THAT??

My mother didn't teach me how to be a mother. But my babies did.

Do you want people to for-sure panic? Tell them not to panic.

I want my kids to have an understanding of the truth of sex, the ins, the outs, the details no one wants to ask anyone—least of all their mom.

I don’t think anyone who has been to the spirited child parenting rodeo would call a mother who screams, “bad,” or who loses her temper, a “failure.” I think we all understand parenting is really really hard from the get go, and parenting a kid who won’t sleep, who screams and kicks and says they hate you, is its own challenge