A healthy lifestyle includes exercise, nutrition, healthy sleep patterns and a healthy group of friends.
Sophie Gregoire Trudeau
So, obviously, on International Women's Day, we are honoring the achievements of women, but gender equality and feminism cannot evolve in our humanity if we're not bringing our boys and men along.
Whatever things you go through, you stay true to who you are and your core values.
We all want equality, we all want to be loved, we all want to have the full potential and opportunity to grow and to participate fully in our societies.
The pictures and dresses and official functions - that's my job, but it's not my whole life.
Yes, I talk about eating disorders and you know, excessive dieting and excessive exercising can be a sign of a mental illness... but when we talk about eating disorders... the issue is not the food or the exercise, the issue is a lack of healthy conception of self. That is the issue.
When you're on official trips it's not a vacation, it's serious work.
When you share your story and become vulnerable, the ripple effect and the people that you can help along the way is a life lesson.
The differences that separate human beings are nothing compared to the similarities that bond us together.
What I wear is what I feel comfortable in.
Through fashion, it's possible to express deep values of one's creative talent and also the values that are expected of society.
Even if you look at the planet, and you think it's easy to be distraught and depressed, common goodness - human goodness - is very much alive, and it needs to thrive even more amid the chaos.
Girls are womb of humanity, nucleus of the family and are supposed to become fully participant citizens in our own countries.
In the quest for more equality in a society, when we think that men aren't part of the solution, we're truly wrong… We're all winners when we unite for more equality.
My kids ask me questions on what I do and I'm very honest with them.
Physical exercise and sport is not just about sport; it's about self-care and self-care is a gift for life.
When youth live in fear of becoming who they are, as adults, they can't become the creative beings that we are meant to be on this planet.
If we don't think that men and boys are part of the solution in this battle for gender equality for the balance between who we are as humans, we're undermining their minds and their spirits. They need to be part of the equation.
My daily life is mostly spent with my three kids and raising them.
Eating was my only way of controlling my life, or so I thought. When you are addicted or suffering from a mental illness, you think you're in complete control. But the opposite is true. You are, in fact, completely out of control.
We're lucky we live in Canada. If we were living in the United States I'm sure it would be different - all the media attention that we would get in the private part of our lives.
I've know Justin since I was a child. I went to school with his younger brother Michel, who died in the Avalanche. But Justin and I are four years apart - when you're 12 and 16, it's worlds away. I always thought he was handsome though.
Wherever we go, in a restaurant or on the street or on a ski hill or even travelling, people come up to see us and they're just so friendly. They always have a super story to tell us concerning his dad or when he was young and I'm always interested to get to know stories about Justin and his family.
Canada knows that for a society to be prosperous and more just and more peaceful, women and girls must be educated.
I used to stress out if I wasn't attaining my goals by their due date, but not anymore.
Canada truly understands that girls and women who have access to a safe and high-quality education is a priority.
I have lots of athletes in my family and they showed me how to waterski - slalom, barefoot - all that stuff.
All my children ski now, they don't have a choice. They have to join mom and dad on the ski hill.
I'm a little bit intrepid when it comes to sport. I like to try new things.
I can tell you right away that no marriage is easy.
I still have dreams, but instead of having them written on a little piece of paper, I live a little bit of them every day.
I don't weigh myself. I don't have a scale in the house.
We have taught our children that meanness gets you nowhere in life.
Learn to distance yourself from the criticism.
I don't want my kids to be raised thinking they'll get into a park and people applaud.
I want people to get to know me, because I want to get to know them.
I think people have this perception of the life that I lead, or that we lead, of drivers, the high life. It's not that.
I don't want to be going to bed at night thinking that people want to harm us, or my family, because that's when the lioness comes out.
Sometimes, I would like to be alone in the woods and run and roll on the ground and play with my kids. And I do, and that's what keeps me grounded.
When humans look at each other and look long enough into their eyes, some people are totally uncomfortable with that. I am not.
Humans need to touch each other. We need to look at each other… We are human creatures, meant to be linked… So, yes, it's a gift for me to be able to look at somebody that I know or don't know, that I love or maybe not love, and to be able to connect.
My mom - For me, she has the spirit of an angel. She's a healer without even knowing it… She's beautiful inside and out. She doesn't know she's that.
Am I completely indifferent to criticism? No, not at all. But I know who I am and I have learned to respect and care for who I am.
I have three kids, I'm an active person, and we keep things real, and you've got to focus on the positive.
On official trips you listen to officials who guide you and also clothing choices, because there are certain places where you have to have your head covered for example, or whatever it is, and I listen to the professionals.
Once Justin decided to go on the political scene, all the spotlights were on him. I think we've done pretty well finding a balance and a centre. It's a very scrutinized life.
I think not only Canada but the world as a whole is called upon to really choose leaders who can generate unity and compassion throughout the world. This is how you find peace, right?
Justin's real weakness is, he's very much in his head. He intellectualizes a lot.
I organize everything. The kids' lunch to the finances to the spending to the house, groceries, everything.
I'm an extrovert - a social being.
