Sign: Scorpio

Hometown: Toronto, Ontario

Claim to Fame: Fitness model, figure competitor, personal trainer, and medical x-ray technologist – to name a few hats she wears.

On her bedside table: Maggie’s got a couple on the go. Tuesdays with Morrie: For One More Day, by Mitch Albom (Hyperion, 2006), and All you need to be impossibly French, A Witty Investigation into the Lives Lusts, and Little Secrets of French Women, by Helen Frith Powell (Plume, 2006).

On her iPod: “The question should be what don’t I have on my iPod,” says Maggie. Depending on her mood, she likes jazzy Dianna Krall to trance all-star Armin Van Buren.

In her fridge: Nada. Maggie travels so much these days, she’s emptied her fridge. “I don’t want to come home to a nasty surprise,” she says.

Choice cheats: “I tend to crave chocolate and pastries in the winter,” says Maggie. The summer’s a little easier because it’s ice cream and she makes her own made with egg whites and protein powder.

Her obstacle: “The lengths I go when I can’t cook for myself add a major stress to my life,” she says. “I can’t always be a hermit or have my trusty cooler with me.”

Staying focused: Maggie believes it’s all about choice. “I have a mission statement on my fridge and I also write little notes to myself reminding me why I choose to live my life this way.”

On her time: “I love every moment I can spend with my nieces. They’re so smart and beautiful.”

Her new look: In 2001, Maggie donated two-and-a-half feet of her hair to Wigs for Kids, a charity for ill children. “So after six years of short hair, I got an itch to switch it up, and I adore my new long hair.”

5 Things she can’t live without

1. Sigg Water Bottle: “A metal water bottle,” she believes, “is a great deal better for you and for the environment.”

2. Blackberry: “It’s always by my side with my ever-changing schedule.”

3. iPod: “I need it in the gym.”

4. Book: “It’s a must when traveling.”

5. Chopsticks: “Everything just tastes better with chopsticks.”