“Of all the lists I’ve made of goals, and all the visions I’ve had, it never before occurred to me that I could be this specific, that I could aspire to a goal actually measurable in inches. I wonder if this is how successful people do it. I wonder if the difference between success and failure could more accurately be described in the waist sizes for jeans.”

American actress and author

Lauren Graham is an American actress and author, best known for playing Lorelai Gilmore on Gilmore Girls and Sarah Braverman on Parenthood. She was born in 1967. She earned a Golden Globe nomination for Gilmore Girls and later returned to the role in the Netflix revival A Year in the Life. Graham has also appeared in films including Sweet November, Bad Santa, The Pacifier, Because I Said So, Evan Almighty, and Max. As a writer, she published the novel Someday, Someday, Maybe in 2013 and the memoir Talking as Fast as I Can in 2016.