Felicity Huffman seems to be a lot like her on-screen character Lynette Scavo - honest, caring, a frazzled mother and full of fun. The 45-year-old star appears on the September cover of More magazine. Here are some of the interview highlights:

On the Desperate Housewives' audition:
"I'd just left two screaming kids in the bathtub and it was raining," she recalls. "I thought I pulled myself together well. Later on, one of the producers said, 'It was so great, because you were such a mess and so frazzled, and your pants were filthy.' "

On her personal trainers and their attitude towards food:
"I've had a lot of trainers through the years, and they’re always like, 'Oh my god, you ate a muffin?' and 'What do you mean you weigh 125? You can’t shoot at that weight.' [Kirsten Holtgreen is] the first trainer who's said, 'You’re not eating enough.'"

On the stresses of maintaining her Hollywood figure:
"I'd take a vacation, and if I was heavy, it was a bad vacation, and if I was light—or, you know, lighter—it was a good vacation."

On feeling beautiful:
“For some reason, after giving birth—which is when you look like a bag of doorknobs—I actually looked at myself in the mirror and went, ‘I look beautiful!’ I don’t know why, but that sort of tipped it for me."

Her husband:
“Being in a showbiz marriage is like anything else. It’s like any other marriage - you sort of stumble along and reconnect and lose each other and reconnect again. But every time Bill Macy walks into the room, my heart still jumps. That is true to this day."