Jane Seymour has been acclaimed for her accomplishments on the Broadway stage, in motion pictures, and on television, having received multiple Emmy and Golden Globe Awards. She has also enjoyed success as an artist, book author, lecturer, fashion designer, and children's advocate. She's the wife of actor/director James Keach and the devoted mother of six children-including seven-year-old twins!

I met Jane Seymour in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she was promoting her exclusive Home Collection for Saks, inspired by her fourteenth-century manor house in Bath, England. On stage to present her collection, surrounded by her lovely original paintings and prints, Jane was asked about her painting, her acting, and her extremely busy life. Where does she find the time? "Well, I did a painting on the flight here!" she replied happily.

Wherever Jane Seymour travels to promote herwork, she contributes financially to "locally meaningful" charitable organizations. This St. Paul event raised $3000 for People Serving People, a local organization that helps the homeless, especially children. According to Seymour, "It's about passion!"

I talked with Seymour about how she sustains and maintains her healthy, creative, and beautiful life.

It's just wonderful to meet you-you're such on inspiring person. When 1 told people I'd be interviewing you, everybody said to ask you how you do it all. So how do you do it all?

You know what? I have an incredible support team around me. When it comes to doing the fashion, I have a team of people-though I'm very involved. I design the pieces, and I come up with the collection. I hand-paint the dresses and come up with color schemes, and you know-we do it all together.

You're very interested in natural healing.

Yes, I'm a great believer in preventive medicine. This is my body. I get regular medical checkups. I'm a great believer in complementary medicine, the combination of allopathic with alternative medicine. There are so many things the medical profession can't deal with and so many the alternatives can't deal with. So, for example, if you came to my home, you'd find homeopathic remedies everywhere. I use them all the time, and the children take homeopathic medicines. It's actually saved us from giving them antibiotics.Also, they do sports, so we use a lot of arnica cream and gel and arnica tablets by mouth for bumps and bruises.

What about your own healthcare?

Vitamins. I take a ridiculous number of vitamins, actually, but then, you know, I'm over 50, and I need to replenish calcium and various minerals. I need to take vitamin C and B-complex and A. I used to take things to prevent arthritis and osteoporosis, but l would say that for the most part I don't get obsessed with it. I try to do my best, but I'm not religious about it. I do try to eat well. I try to eat good food that contains a lot of vitamins.

I don't just pop a lot of vitamins and then eat a lot of cake! I eat lots of raw foods and fresh organic things if I can, fish and chicken, grilled. I try to stay away from all fried foods, and I never really have to go on a diet because I tend to stay the same if I eat this way.

In your new book, Remarkable Changes, you say that, remarkably, you were picked on as a child, you were teased for being different. How did you overcome this difficult part of your background?

I shed a lot of tears for that, you know. I was not popular. I was always left out, so I think because of that l ended up painting and creating things and doing things myself-having my own little projects. And then I found other kids who were also "different," and we became friends. I think what you do if you get left out and feel unheard is you start finding people who are in similar circumstances. You'll find something in common with them and you become a group. Then you share it in the group, get rid of it, and then when you get out from that group, you aren't carrying that baggage around with you- because other people don't want to hear it.

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