WOW: You share your stage name with King Henry VIII’s third wife. How did you choose that name?

JANE: I was told when I first started that I would have to change my name from Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg because it was too long, too foreign and too difficult to remember or write down. Those were the days when people did change their names, they had stage names. I decided that the name Jane was plain, anyone could be Jane and it wasn’t a name that really spoke to a specific character. I felt I could adapt to that name, plus it had the same initial as Joyce. Somebody at my agent’s office came up with the name Seymour. Of course, Seymour is a very English name, easy to remember, easy to spell. At that time we did not remember it was Henry VIII’s third wife, nor did anyone else. So people just thought they had either seen my work before or had met me at a party.

WOW: Both Henry VIII and yourself have experience with divorce. You even talk about it in your book, Remarkable Changes: Turning Life’s Challenges into Opportunities. What tips do you have for our readers on divorce? How do you move on?

JANE: Like Henry VIII, I have had a certain amount of experience with divorce and I talk about it in my book, Remarkable Changes. When I was growing up very few people ever got divorced. Nowadays it seems very prevalent. I think the important thing for people to realize is that marriage is hard — you have to work at it. But if it doesn’t work and you have children involved, you will always be the parents, so you need to respect the other parent and realize that your partnership may be dissolved as husband and wife, but it isn’t dissolved as parents. Anything you can do to let kids feel that you’re united in their parenting, I think that’s really important.

WOW: You also published Jane Seymour’s Guide to Romantic Living What can you tell us about how to keep romance in your life? Have your thoughts on this changed since this book came out in the 1980s?

JANE: The Guide to Romantic Living is a book I wrote a long time ago and I still think a lot of that applies. I think it is important to try and keep some romance in your life, but it’s hard to do when you are really busy. But I think taking time out to honor the one you love, to smell the roses, to take a walk on the beach, to watch the sun set — whatever it takes. I think it’s important.

WOW: Jane, you’re one of the few celebrities who talk openly about plastic surgery. How did you choose to undergo plastic surgery, and how did it make a difference in your life? Will you get more work done? What advice do you have for women who are considering plastic surgery?

JANE: The whole plastic surgery situation is interesting. I was doing "Dancing With the Stars" and I was asked, “Have you ever had plastic surgery?” So I admitted that, yes, indeed, about 17 years ago I did my breasts because I had fed so many children, there weren’t any anymore. So I decided just to replace what God had given me and I’m glad that I did that. I think it certainly helped me look better in some of the clothes I was wearing, especially as an actress. Also, I went through a terrible divorce so I think it made me feel a bit better about suddenly being back on the dating scene. In terms of having any other plastic surgery, I had a genetic condition with my eyes and I had some huge bags under my eyes so I was asked by many photographers to do something about that. I did that also about 17 years ago. I have so far chosen not to do any of the big stuff that everyone else is doing. I think I am one of the few actresses of my age that still has their own face, own cheekbones, that doesn’t use Botox. I’m not against plastic surgery, but if I could find something that was subtle I might consider it.

WOW: As a celebrity ambassador for Childhelp, you help raise funds to prevent child abuse and provide health care for children. What drew you to this charity, and what sort of projects have you worked on with them? How can we get involved, too?

JANE: I am a celebrity ambassador for Childhelp. I’ve been involved in the child abuse area for a long time. When I was in England my mother’s charity was the NSPCC, the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, which is very similar to Childhelp. I just find it abhorrent that children are abused, and we hear about this all the time in the newspapers and on the news and an enormous amount of it goes on that we don’t hear about. I think the tragedy is that people who have been abused, if they don’t get help, find themselves abusing their children in turn. So it’s a really important issue. I think it’s something people need to be educated on.  I think children need to learn somehow how to protect themselves if they possibly can, and I think the perpetrators need to be put away and we need to know who they are so we can try to protect our children.