China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are PART of the middle CLASS and yearn for things MADE in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the EQUIVALENT of one U.S. dollar a day.
Read MoreWhen I'm on TELEVISION, I'm talking to millions of people, so the conversation is TOTALLY different. My WORDS are different. My diction is different because now I'm really talking American English and not homeboy English.
Read MoreTwenty years ago, I was PART of a movement of millions of people who were going after freedom. But today, they look and they say, 'What are the advantages of freedom?' So far, it's the VOTE and maybe, in certain places, lack of police HARASSMENT. You can live anywhere you want and do ANYTHING you want - if you have the means.
Read MoreBut for me, a physician, chief medical correspondent for a major NETWORK, and women's health EXPERT, the THOUGHT of exposing myself to MILLIONS of people as SOMEONE who'd been completely blindsided by the suicide of my children's father, and by the impact of that suicide on Alex and Chloe and me, was nothing short of terrifying.
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