Sarah Michelle Gellar talks with SELF magazine about finding balance.

ON BLOWING OFF STEAM:

"Sometimes it's going to the gym. The endorphins and sweating and just getting it all out. Sometimes it's curling up on the floor and having a full-on conversation with my dog. Sometimes it's just taking a walk and clearing your head and just being reminded that life is pretty good. We all have bad days, but we bounce back."

ON HER NEW HOBBY, BIKING:

"I'm not a great biker. When you live in the suburbs, kids bike to school, but growing up in New York, my mom wasn't going to let me bike all over the city. So in the beginning when Freddie and I started biking around, he was like, 'Wow, you're a really bad biker!' And I said, 'What do you expect? I took taxis at age 8!' Down here in Tribeca, everyone bikes, and you'll see people-other actors-and they'll laugh when they see me with groceries biking so slowly with a basket and a helmet. I'm still getting better with it."

ON HER BODY IMAGE:

"In New York, we have five months out of the year where we don't have to worry. You have 17 layers on and it doesn't matter what you look like underneath. But in L.A., people are always looking at you, especially if you're on a show like that. And then the blogs start. Oh, did she gain a little weight? All of a sudden people are commenting daily about how you look and your hair color. It automatically makes you self-conscious."

ON BREAST CANCER ADVOCACY:

"I've had so many women in my life affected by breast cancer. One of my best friends went with a friend to get their first mammogram. It was like a girls day and they didn't think anything of it. And our other friend had a lump and it was malignant. And this was just a girls day! I will say this, though. I've had 16 people in my life who have had breast cancer now, and they're all survivors! All survivors! And I'm talking, some of them were not supposed to be survivors."

SOURCE: SELF

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