Latest / I Choose Me with Jennie Garth / Mary Bonnet on Leaving "Selling Sunset" to Take Back Who She Really Is
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- 0:01Speaker 1: You're listening to I Choose Me with Jenny Garland.
- 0:08Speaker 2: Welcome to I Choose Me.
- 0:10Speaker 1: You're not going to believe who is sitting with me
- 0:13Speaker 1: right now. After nine seasons on Netflix's hit reality series,
- 0:18Speaker 1: Selling Sunset, Mary Bonnet is reinventing herself, choosing herself, if
- 0:25Speaker 1: you will, and recommitting herself to what she is so
- 0:30Speaker 1: very passionate about. protecting animals. I am so happy to
- 0:34Speaker 1: welcome Mary Bonnet.
- 0:37Speaker 2: I love your tattoos. Oh, thank you. I just keep
- 0:40Speaker 2: getting more.
- 0:40Speaker 1: You do.
- 0:41Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, I've always had a bunch, but they
- 0:43Speaker 2: were always really small. And then I always tried to
- 0:46Speaker 2: hide them from like for work. And then I don't
- 0:49Speaker 2: know what happened. I was just like, you know, I've
- 0:51Speaker 2: already done enough. I think I've established myself. If I
- 0:55Speaker 2: want tattoos, I can have tattoos. Right? Really. So I
- 0:58Speaker 2: started getting them and I got, I don't know, I
- 1:00Speaker 2: got a, um, Something called, I forget. It's basically like
- 1:03Speaker 2: henna for this one to make sure I actually liked
- 1:06Speaker 2: it for a couple months before. Oh, that's beautiful. Floral. Yeah.
- 1:11Speaker 2: I never, and I don't know what happened. I just
- 1:13Speaker 2: kind of changed.
- 1:14Speaker 1: It's really pretty. The loom.
- 1:16Speaker 2: They're all beautiful.
- 1:17Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Everyone has a story. Every one of
- 1:19Speaker 1: them has a story. I love also the little foot one.
- 1:21Speaker 1: I love that you said when you were doing real estate,
- 1:24Speaker 1: you wanted to cover them up because I was scrolling
- 1:27Speaker 1: through your Instagram last night and I was really kind
- 1:30Speaker 1: of like, there's pictures of you where you're all buttoned up.
- 1:33Speaker 2: Oh yeah. And you look like a realtor. Yes.
- 1:36Speaker 1: Like my mom, my mom and my dad.
- 1:38Speaker 2: Were both realtors.
- 1:39Speaker 1: My mom more seriously. But I just remember those like,
- 1:44Speaker 1: Photos she had to take for her business cards. Oh, yeah.
- 1:46Speaker 2: Like all suit jacket and everything. Yep. Why do you
- 1:49Speaker 2: have to look like that if you're a realtor? In LA,
- 1:52Speaker 2: I don't think you have to. And I just realized that.
- 1:54Speaker 2: But in certain parts, I will still do it. Like
- 1:56Speaker 2: in Bel Air, if it's an older couple or something,
- 1:58Speaker 2: it's like I just kind of go with it.
- 2:00Speaker 1: The client.
- 2:01Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. And in the hills, it's just like, I mean,
- 2:04Speaker 2: people would be uncomfortable probably if I did that. They're like,
- 2:06Speaker 2: you're uptight.
- 2:08Speaker 1: I know. I feel like, is everything okay?
- 2:10Speaker 2: I know. Some of my clients that really know me,
- 2:13Speaker 2: they're like, Mary, take your shoes off. I know that
- 2:15Speaker 2: you want to be barefoot because I am like always barefoot.
- 2:18Speaker 2: Take your shoes off, Mary. Look at me. I'm sitting
- 2:20Speaker 2: crisscross here on my couch. Get comfortable. I'm serious.
- 2:24Speaker 1: This is like a no. This couch is for only comfort.
- 2:27Speaker 2: Okay.
- 2:29Speaker 1: And just chatting with my friend, my new friend. Yes. Yes,
- 2:33Speaker 1: I feel like I know you after doing research on you.
- 2:37Speaker 2: What did the research tell you?
- 2:38Speaker 1: I mean, I just know all about, like, your time
- 2:41Speaker 1: on Selling Sunset. I know, you know, I saw everything
- 2:44Speaker 1: about your animal, your love for animals, and your just.
- 2:48Speaker 2: Fun, vivacious energy.
- 2:50Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 2:51Speaker 2: Which is so cool. I try to be.
- 2:54Speaker 1: You recently got back from Bali, which I have, I've
- 2:59Speaker 1: gone to Bali as well on like a self-exploration trip.
- 3:03Speaker 1: But you have been organizing.
- 3:07Speaker 2: You just finished one in September, right? Yeah. Yeah.
- 3:09Speaker 1: How was it? The pictures were amazing.
- 3:10Speaker 2: Yeah, it was it was my first one. And it
- 3:14Speaker 2: was it was amazing. I will definitely do more. I
- 3:17Speaker 2: think I'm going to do them on my own next
- 3:19Speaker 2: time because I had a company that was kind of
- 3:22Speaker 2: I went through them and there were too many restrictions.
- 3:25Speaker 1: So you like advertise it and get people to sign
- 3:28Speaker 1: up for it and then you facilitate you go with them.
- 3:30Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I go and I host it the whole time.
- 3:33Speaker 2: So there were issues because of like the company. So
- 3:38Speaker 2: I had to fix those a lot when I was there.
- 3:41Speaker 2: So next time I know, especially if it's in Bali,
- 3:43Speaker 2: I know Bali so well. I know so many like
- 3:46Speaker 2: places there so I can facilitate all of that my own.
- 3:49Speaker 2: and or myself and make more money too and have
- 3:53Speaker 2: less problems if it simply sells maybe i need i'll
- 3:57Speaker 2: do a different company maybe but um but i think
- 4:00Speaker 2: if i did enough research i could just do it
- 4:02Speaker 2: i travel all.
- 4:03Speaker 1: The time i went um to bali with a group
- 4:05Speaker 1: of strangers women that i didn't know you know he
- 4:09Speaker 1: signed up did.
- 4:10Speaker 2: You really did you like it i well.
- 4:11Speaker 1: I one of the women that i that was run
- 4:13Speaker 1: the woman that was running it i knew and i
- 4:15Speaker 1: really trusted her okay and so um But I was
- 4:18Speaker 1: really in like a– I needed to have some clarity.
- 4:22Speaker 2: Space in my life.
- 4:23Speaker 1: Yeah. And so I didn't really like join in on
- 4:26Speaker 1: all the yoga and the like community activities. I was–
- 4:30Speaker 1: off on my own, wandering the rice paddies, the little
- 4:35Speaker 1: pathways through the field.
- 4:36Speaker 2: Isn't it healing?
- 4:37Speaker 1: Going under the river, the bridge.
- 4:39Speaker 2: There's something about the energy there. It's like, you don't
- 4:43Speaker 2: even have to participate in any of organized activities or anything.
- 4:48Speaker 2: I mean, they're amazing when you do, but it's just
- 4:52Speaker 2: the energy there is so healing and grounding. That's what
- 4:55Speaker 2: I found. That's why I love it so much. After
- 4:58Speaker 2: each season, I started going.
- 5:01Speaker 1: Oh, good for you.
- 5:02Speaker 2: Yeah. I was just like, get me out of here now.
- 5:06Speaker 2: And I would go and I would just by day two,
- 5:09Speaker 2: I was like, okay, I get it. I can just,
- 5:13Speaker 2: I can just, I have like perspective and I felt calm. Yeah. Yeah,
- 5:20Speaker 2: I fell in love.
- 5:21Speaker 1: It's hard to find that in this city. Oh, yeah.
- 5:23Speaker 1: And definitely in the industry that you're in.
- 5:25Speaker 2: Absolutely. Yeah.
- 5:27Speaker 1: Did you meet with healers? I did.
- 5:28Speaker 2: Yeah. I even went to Cthulhu. Do you know from Eat, Pray, Love?
- 5:33Speaker 1: No.
- 5:33Speaker 2: No? Have you ever seen Eat, Pray, Love?
- 5:35Speaker 1: Yes.
- 5:35Speaker 2: Okay. So he's the medicine man. Okay. But it's his
- 5:39Speaker 2: son now. Yeah. I don't want to say anything negative,
- 5:42Speaker 2: but I think it's more gimmicky now. And it's all
- 5:46Speaker 2: about because of the show. But I do have one
- 5:48Speaker 2: guy and he is amazing. He told me stuff that
- 5:54Speaker 2: last time that I was like, oh, I need to
- 5:58Speaker 2: really like check myself and reevaluate like the direction I'm
- 6:04Speaker 2: going in my life. Because everything he was saying was true.
- 6:06Speaker 2: It was how I was feeling. It was what was
- 6:08Speaker 2: going on.
- 6:08Speaker 1: Just recently?
- 6:09Speaker 2: Yeah. It was a year and a half ago. And
- 6:11Speaker 2: I saw him again on this one. And he started off,
- 6:14Speaker 2: he does like all the numerology and different things, like
- 6:17Speaker 2: whatever it is. And he's like doing stuff. And the
- 6:19Speaker 2: first time he was like, what do you do?
- 6:22Speaker 1: I was like, real estate.
- 6:23Speaker 2: He's like, he's doing the numbers and stuff. He's like, no, no.
- 6:29Speaker 2: What do you do for work?
- 6:30Speaker 1: I was like, I do real estate.
- 6:33Speaker 2: And he's like, kept going. He's like, no, that's not it.
- 6:37Speaker 2: And finally, I kept letting him go and go and go.
- 6:40Speaker 2: And he was like, no, that's not what's doing this.
- 6:43Speaker 2: I was like, okay, I'm on TV too. But he's like,
- 6:46Speaker 2: that's it. Yeah. And so he said how unhealthy it is,
- 6:49Speaker 2: the stress. And my cortisol is so high. He's like,
- 6:53Speaker 2: it's going to kill you. Four years.
- 6:57Speaker 1: It will kill you. And I was like, what?
- 6:59Speaker 2: So this was.
- 7:01Speaker 1: A year and a half ago.
- 7:02Speaker 2: Yeah. And you made it out alive. I made it
- 7:04Speaker 2: out alive. And this time still, he's like... You, you're
- 7:08Speaker 2: not as, you're not as stressed, but you still need
- 7:11Speaker 2: to stop. Your brain works too much. He's like, you
- 7:14Speaker 2: need to stop it. And it affects your gut. And
- 7:16Speaker 2: I was like.
- 7:17Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I feel like I'm looking in the
- 7:18Speaker 1: mirror right now.
- 7:20Speaker 2: Right? I'm like, it really, you get told that and
- 7:23Speaker 2: you know it. Like deep down you know it, but
- 7:25Speaker 2: someone else like.
- 7:27Speaker 1: Tells you that... That doesn't know you from anything.
- 7:29Speaker 2: Uh-huh. Had no idea. Right. And he's in the middle
- 7:33Speaker 2: of a jungle. Like, I had no clue. And he
- 7:36Speaker 2: could tell me, like, it was... I was so stressed out.
- 7:39Speaker 2: It was going to kill me. And I kept saying
- 7:41Speaker 2: that to my sister. I was like, I think this
- 7:43Speaker 2: show's going to kill me. Like, because I.
- 7:45Speaker 1: It was just so.
- 7:46Speaker 2: So much anxiety about all the conflict and everything. I
- 7:49Speaker 2: just don't do well with it.
- 7:50Speaker 1: Yeah. I want to... I want to talk all about
- 7:52Speaker 1: the show and about, you know, this... exciting new chapter
- 7:56Speaker 1: for you because you left the show and I'm, I'm
- 8:01Speaker 1: really excited for you, but I just think that, you know, talking,
- 8:05Speaker 1: our listeners maybe have never gone to Bali or have
- 8:09Speaker 1: the opportunity to go to Bali. What would you recommend
- 8:12Speaker 1: to them? Like if they can't go just on a
- 8:16Speaker 1: whim to Bali, like, what do you, what have you
- 8:21Speaker 1: learned from going to Bali?
- 8:23Speaker 2: Like, You know what I have found? My sister always
- 8:27Speaker 2: tells me grounding, like going outside, being barefoot in the
- 8:30Speaker 2: grass and stuff, and that really helps. But what I
- 8:32Speaker 2: found that really takes me out of my head, lowers
- 8:36Speaker 2: my stress, and it just gives me a moment to
- 8:39Speaker 2: breathe and focus on something else other than everything going
- 8:44Speaker 2: on in my life.
- 8:44Speaker 1: Pottery. Pottery.
- 8:46Speaker 2: Well I have a lot of hobbies my my ADHD
- 8:53Speaker 2: I'm like oh I want to try that oh I
- 8:55Speaker 2: want to do this but pottery is one where I
- 8:58Speaker 2: think I'd always wanted to do it I think after
- 9:02Speaker 2: ghost like everybody imagining.
- 9:04Speaker 1: You and Patrick Swayze for a moment I did too um.
- 9:10Speaker 2: But it really works. Like, and I just bought a
- 9:13Speaker 2: wheel on Amazon, had no idea how to do it,
- 9:15Speaker 2: watch YouTube videos. And I just started trying. But there's
- 9:20Speaker 2: something about just getting your hands in the clay and
- 9:25Speaker 2: you can only focus on that one thing. And it's
- 9:27Speaker 2: so just calming because the wheel's just going and you're
- 9:31Speaker 2: just like focused just on that, just trying to keep
- 9:33Speaker 2: it up, trying to mold it and everything else goes away.
- 9:37Speaker 1: That's really cool.
- 9:38Speaker 2: Yeah. Even for like 30 minutes, I would give myself
- 9:42Speaker 2: a 30-minute break from whatever I was doing. If I
- 9:44Speaker 2: had a deadline, I was super stressed out. If I
- 9:46Speaker 2: was trying to solve some problem from how was I
- 9:51Speaker 2: going to handle something, just go do it. Get clarity.
- 9:54Speaker 2: Nothing's going to happen in 30 minutes. Yeah. And so
- 9:56Speaker 2: I would go do it. And I could come back
- 9:57Speaker 2: so much clearer headed and so much more calm.
- 10:02Speaker 1: That's a great hack right there. Yeah. That's good for
- 10:05Speaker 1: people to know. Why do you think that like traveling
- 10:09Speaker 1: with a group of women is important, even if it's
- 10:12Speaker 1: strangers in my case? Yeah. Even if it's like your girlfriends?
- 10:17Speaker 2: There's a support system there. Yeah. I think that everyone
- 10:21Speaker 2: is going through something and we're all so caught up
- 10:26Speaker 2: in our own lives and our own issues that we
- 10:29Speaker 2: forget that the person sitting next to us is typically
- 10:33Speaker 2: going through something. They're stressed out and stuff like that too.
- 10:37Speaker 2: And I think there's just power in numbers. And if
- 10:42Speaker 2: most people that go on things like that, you're all
- 10:46Speaker 2: looking for something. You're looking for clarity, community, just to
- 10:52Speaker 2: figure things out.
- 10:53Speaker 1: Purpose in life.
- 10:54Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 10:56Speaker 1: Big things sometimes. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.
- 10:59Speaker 2: And I think the people there next to you, you
- 11:01Speaker 2: never know. So somebody always has something to offer. And
- 11:05Speaker 2: so the person there on the trip with you might
- 11:08Speaker 2: just become like a lifelong friend or might have advice
- 11:11Speaker 2: or an experience that you're like, Wow. Okay.
- 11:15Speaker 1: And you never would have met them.
- 11:16Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 11:17Speaker 1: That's what it was. I mean, for me, when I
- 11:18Speaker 1: did it, it was such a crazy, like last minute spontaneous.
- 11:23Speaker 1: My kids are with their dad. I can go. I'm
- 11:25Speaker 1: going to do this. I'll get my ticket. We leave tomorrow.
- 11:27Speaker 1: And it was one of the most like eye opening
- 11:31Speaker 1: and just like beautiful experiences of my life with myself.
- 11:36Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 11:37Speaker 1: And God bless the woman that took me, Jennifer. She
- 11:41Speaker 1: let me just do my own thing. And I kind
- 11:43Speaker 1: of joined in when it was, you know, felt right.
- 11:46Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 11:47Speaker 1: But I also made some, you know, really nice connections
- 11:50Speaker 1: with women while I was there, which I hadn't really
- 11:54Speaker 1: done before in my life, especially strangers.
- 11:57Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. It's like, I don't know them. You don't
- 12:00Speaker 2: want to let people in. But I think there's something
- 12:03Speaker 2: about going on trips like that, that you can let
- 12:07Speaker 2: your guard down and you realize there's, It's not that scary.
- 12:12Speaker 1: Right.
- 12:13Speaker 2: Well, sometimes. Sometimes.
- 12:15Speaker 1: It's true because every time I talk to a group
- 12:17Speaker 1: of women, there is like this sort of secret longing
- 12:19Speaker 1: for community. Yeah. And it's, you know, it's hard to
- 12:23Speaker 1: put yourself out there. Yeah. It's hard to be the
- 12:25Speaker 1: one to make the first move. Have you ever gone
- 12:27Speaker 1: up to somebody who you just had a feeling about
- 12:29Speaker 1: and been like, hey, do you want to be friends?
- 12:32Speaker 1: Not normally, but I was actually, it was funny.
- 12:36Speaker 2: I was at.
- 12:38Speaker 2: I mean, it was at a safe kind of place,
- 12:41Speaker 2: but it was Jason's house down in the O.C. and
- 12:42Speaker 2: there was a birthday.
- 12:43Speaker 1: Party and we were getting, I.
- 12:46Speaker 2: Don't know, our nails done or something. They had all
- 12:48Speaker 2: these little setups and things. And there was a girl
- 12:52Speaker 2: sitting next to me. I was like, I like you.
- 12:55Speaker 2: She's had such good energy and she was just so sweet.
- 12:59Speaker 2: And there was just something about her. I was like,
- 13:02Speaker 2: I want to be your friend. And it was like
- 13:03Speaker 2: the first time I've ever even said anything like that.
- 13:05Speaker 2: And I'm like, hi, you know, and then like stay
- 13:08Speaker 2: in my little corner.
- 13:09Speaker 1: So did you guys become friends?
- 13:11Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, we don't talk every day, but I've
- 13:14Speaker 2: seen her around. We texted each other a couple of times.
- 13:17Speaker 2: I mean, haven't really kept followed up on it. But
- 13:21Speaker 2: when we saw each other a couple of weeks ago,
- 13:23Speaker 2: I was like, oh my God, it would give each
- 13:25Speaker 2: other a big hug.
- 13:33Speaker 1: I know you have close girlfriends. What are your tips
- 13:35Speaker 1: for great friendships in adulthood?
- 13:38Speaker 2: Just being supportive and always telling the truth. It's like,
- 13:42Speaker 2: I always feel like a real friend calls you on
- 13:45Speaker 2: your shit. And there's so many people pleasers. And I mean,
- 13:49Speaker 2: I'm a people pleaser normally, but I'm like, if my
- 13:52Speaker 2: friend isn't going to tell me, like when I'm messing
- 13:56Speaker 2: up or when I.
- 13:57Speaker 1: Need to like, whatever, like I need to Check yourself.
- 14:02Speaker 2: Get my head out of my ass. It's like, who's
- 14:05Speaker 2: going to? And then just people that are there, not
- 14:10Speaker 2: just for the good times.
- 14:12Speaker 1: And I just had to.
- 14:13Speaker 2: Do this not too long ago with somebody that was
- 14:17Speaker 2: a friend for a very long time. And I just
- 14:19Speaker 2: realized that it was a one-way street. And they were
- 14:24Speaker 2: only there when it was a really fun time, so
- 14:27Speaker 2: when I could do something for them. And There was
- 14:31Speaker 2: not time for even a text just to say, hey,
- 14:34Speaker 2: how are you? When I was going through something like
- 14:35Speaker 2: really big, I'm like, I don't have time for this
- 14:38Speaker 2: right now. Just when your drama's over, let me know. Okay,
- 14:43Speaker 2: this is too many years this has been going on.
- 14:47Speaker 2: I was like, this one was too big. And I
- 14:49Speaker 2: was like, no.
- 14:50Speaker 1: I think, yeah. I think we all come to an
- 14:52Speaker 1: age where we're like, it's time to trim the fat.
- 14:55Speaker 1: There are problems. And not in a literal sense, but
- 15:00Speaker 1: like just friendships that aren't serving us anymore. That maybe
- 15:04Speaker 1: did one day. Yep. We all change.
- 15:06Speaker 2: And I think there are, I just don't want people
- 15:11Speaker 2: in my life just for the sake of having them
- 15:13Speaker 2: in my life. I want real people and people that
- 15:17Speaker 2: are on the same page and just a positive thing
- 15:22Speaker 2: in my life. I don't, I just don't need the other, like,
- 15:27Speaker 2: just random people anymore.
- 15:29Speaker 1: I mean, I've come to the place where I'm like,
- 15:31Speaker 1: I don't have time for that anymore. Like, I just
- 15:34Speaker 1: want goodness. I want happy.
- 15:36Speaker 2: Yes.
- 15:36Speaker 1: I want meaningful. I want, you know, if there's a conflict,
- 15:41Speaker 1: let's talk about it in, like, grown-up way. Like, I
- 15:44Speaker 1: just don't have time for games anymore.
- 15:48Speaker 2: I know. It's something I think when you get to
- 15:52Speaker 2: a certain age and you're like, I'm tired of it.
- 15:55Speaker 2: I know.
- 15:55Speaker 1: I can't do it anymore. You're in your 40s, right?
- 15:58Speaker 2: 46. 46.
- 15:58Speaker 1: Great year.
- 15:59Speaker 2: Is it?
- 16:00Speaker 1: Yeah. Okay.
- 16:01Speaker 2: That whole perimenopause thing, no one talked about this before. No.
- 16:04Speaker 2: And it needs to be talked about because it blindsided me.
- 16:08Speaker 1: Really? Really. Oh my God. I can relate. Especially if
- 16:12Speaker 1: you have no idea what's happening.
- 16:13Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
- 16:14Speaker 1: I thought I was going crazy. I thought I went
- 16:16Speaker 1: and got my brain. I got a brain scan.
- 16:18Speaker 2: So did I. Really?
- 16:19Speaker 1: I was like, I can't remember anything. I think I
- 16:22Speaker 1: have Alzheimer's. Somebody help me.
- 16:24Speaker 2: In ADHD, it makes it like a thousand times worse.
- 16:27Speaker 2: My medication wasn't working. I would just go walk into
- 16:30Speaker 2: a room. Like I walk in the kitchen and I'm
- 16:31Speaker 2: just walk in circles almost like, wait.
- 16:33Speaker 1: What was I doing?
- 16:34Speaker 2: And walk back around like, like Zora, like, oh, what
- 16:36Speaker 2: was I doing?
- 16:37Speaker 1: What was I doing? What is that? Because how does,
- 16:41Speaker 1: I mean, it's the loss of estrogen to our brain apparently,
- 16:45Speaker 1: but it's so, it's like a universal thing that happens
- 16:48Speaker 1: to so many women. You walk in a room, you're like,
- 16:50Speaker 1: what the hell am I doing?
- 16:52Speaker 2: I do it all the time. I probably already did
- 16:54Speaker 2: it twice today. So frustrating.
- 16:56Speaker 1: But then I just stop and I'm like, what did
- 16:58Speaker 1: I come in here for? And I like force myself
- 17:01Speaker 1: to remember.
- 17:02Speaker 2: Oh, I just get distracted. And I'm like, oh, what
- 17:05Speaker 2: did I? Oh. And I see something else. I'm like, squirrel.
- 17:08Speaker 2: And I go, something else. And two hours later, I'm like,
- 17:11Speaker 2: I think I was supposed to be doing something.
- 17:14Speaker 1: I forget to even look at my calendar in the morning.
- 17:16Speaker 2: I'm lucky I'm even here.
- 17:17Speaker 1: Oh my God.
- 17:20Speaker 2: Like I just get up, start taking care of the dogs.
- 17:22Speaker 1: And I don't know what I do.
- 17:24Speaker 2: Just start walking around. I'm like, what is today?
- 17:27Speaker 1: Like, I've become kind of.
- 17:29Speaker 2: Dumb, I think. I'm like, when is this going to
- 17:31Speaker 2: go away?
- 17:33Speaker 1: It's just this season of life that is so uncharted
- 17:39Speaker 1: and so unique to every individual.
- 17:41Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 17:42Speaker 1: But I think, are you working with like a doctor
- 17:44Speaker 1: or a homeopath?
- 17:46Speaker 2: Yeah. I've tried to get on some of the hormones.
- 17:51Speaker 2: I'm doing a.
- 17:51Speaker 1: Lot of peptides as well.
- 17:53Speaker 2: Okay.
- 17:55Speaker 1: Peptides.
- 17:56Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
- 17:56Speaker 1: What do you take? I'm terrified to take peptides. I mean,
- 18:01Speaker 1: it's not.
- 18:02Speaker 2: Regulated, so you have to make sure you go to
- 18:04Speaker 2: a place where they have third-party testing. It's U.S. labs,
- 18:09Speaker 2: third-party testing, because they don't require it. The FDA isn't
- 18:12Speaker 2: involved with peptides yet.
- 18:14Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's so scary. What do you do?
- 18:16Speaker 2: You have to be very careful.
- 18:17Speaker 1: How did you get on the peptide wagon?
- 18:20Speaker 2: Well, I heard all about it, but then I just
- 18:22Speaker 2: started doing research. And I had... I had a company
- 18:27Speaker 2: reach out to me and see if I wanted to
- 18:29Speaker 2: partner with them. And so that's actually how I started
- 18:31Speaker 2: looking into it.
- 18:32Speaker 1: I was like, well, who, who is it? Like basically.
- 18:35Speaker 2: And so, and when they started going through like what
- 18:37Speaker 2: they do, I made me like realize what they should,
- 18:41Speaker 2: what people should be doing. So I started checking other
- 18:43Speaker 2: companies to see, okay, who does this? Who doesn't? And
- 18:46Speaker 2: what do the other companies like offer that this one's
- 18:49Speaker 2: not offering to make sure it was good. And it
- 18:52Speaker 2: was very good. They had really, good quality products and stuff.
- 18:58Speaker 2: And I had great results from them.
- 19:00Speaker 1: What do you mean? What results?
- 19:01Speaker 2: Okay.
- 19:01Speaker 1: What happened to you? I'm so curious.
- 19:04Speaker 2: I take BPC-157. Oh, my.
- 19:06Speaker 1: Okay.
- 19:07Speaker 2: And then I take that one. I take NAD, glutathione,
- 19:12Speaker 2: vitamin B12, somoroline.
- 19:15Speaker 1: I believe it's called.
- 19:16Speaker 2: And you just.
- 19:20Speaker 1: Is that like in a little cocktail and you just...
- 19:23Speaker 1: There's multiple vials. Multiple needles. Okay. Yeah. I'm not scared
- 19:28Speaker 1: of needles.
- 19:29Speaker 2: No? No, they're so tiny. Sometimes I do, and I
- 19:32Speaker 2: always laugh at myself when I do. I just get,
- 19:34Speaker 2: I don't know, nervous and wake up and I'm like, one, two, three, go, one, two, three, go.
- 19:39Speaker 2: And I can't do it. And then other times I'm
- 19:40Speaker 2: just like, you don't even feel it. It's like a
- 19:42Speaker 2: little diabetic needle. What about the hormone therapy? It didn't
- 19:46Speaker 2: work very well for me. I didn't respond to it.
- 19:48Speaker 2: I need to– I gained so much weight. And I
- 19:53Speaker 2: asked her if it was going to make me gain weight.
- 19:55Speaker 2: She said, no, probably not more than like five pounds
- 19:57Speaker 2: or so. No, I gained like 15 pounds. And so
- 20:01Speaker 2: then one of the other peptide things then I took– Uh,
- 20:06Speaker 2: to his appetite to like, try to get that off
- 20:09Speaker 2: and up stuff works amazing. I mean, just knock the
- 20:11Speaker 2: weight right off. And so then, but then I can't
- 20:14Speaker 2: go back on, on the hormones. So I'm trying to
- 20:17Speaker 2: figure out what to do now. It's like a work
- 20:19Speaker 2: in progress.
- 20:20Speaker 1: It's a balancing act.
- 20:21Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 20:21Speaker 1: And like I said, it's so individual.
- 20:23Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 20:24Speaker 1: So I'm glad you're getting help though, like because so
- 20:28Speaker 1: many of us just like raw dogged it. Like we didn't,
- 20:31Speaker 1: you know, nobody was talking about it and nobody knew
- 20:34Speaker 1: what was happening. But now it's such a great conversation
- 20:36Speaker 1: that all the women are having. Yeah. That we're educating
- 20:39Speaker 1: one another. We're educating the next generation of young women.
- 20:43Speaker 1: So it won't be this like weird.
- 20:45Speaker 2: It's a big thing. Like you're like confused at what's wrong.
- 20:49Speaker 2: Everyone's not getting their brain. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Anybody
- 20:54Speaker 2: in their late 30s and stuff, I'm like, okay, listen,
- 20:57Speaker 2: get ready because this is going to be coming. Okay.
- 21:01Speaker 2: Do not think you're crazy. Just be prepared.
- 21:04Speaker 1: Be prepared.
- 21:05Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 21:05Speaker 1: Yeah. Knowledge is power when it comes to that, man.
- 21:07Speaker 2: Okay.
- 21:08Speaker 1: So going back to the traveling thing, I have a friend,
- 21:10Speaker 1: Jen Hatmaker, and she once a year goes on a
- 21:13Speaker 1: trip by herself all alone for a month. I love that.
- 21:17Speaker 1: Have you ever done anything like that?
- 21:20Speaker 2: Not for a month. I've gone away. I do go
- 21:23Speaker 2: away when I get really stressed out. I will, or
- 21:29Speaker 2: if I'm really confused about something. I did it when
- 21:34Speaker 2: I was with Romaine, basically, when we first started dating.
- 21:40Speaker 2: And I was just tripping myself out about, I don't know,
- 21:43Speaker 2: I was scaring myself, like where I started getting cold
- 21:45Speaker 2: feet and stuff. I don't know why. And I was
- 21:49Speaker 2: everything that he was doing was annoying me. And, and,
- 21:51Speaker 2: but I knew he wasn't actually doing anything. I was just,
- 21:54Speaker 2: I was just causing.
- 21:55Speaker 1: You were trying to burn down your house.
- 21:56Speaker 2: Yeah, basically.
- 21:58Speaker 1: And Jason was like, what are you doing? Like, he's
- 22:00Speaker 1: not doing anything. Jason's your best friend. Yeah.
- 22:02Speaker 2: Yeah. He's, he's, um, yeah, my best friend and then
- 22:05Speaker 2: broker and stuff on the show. But, um, uh, he's like,
- 22:08Speaker 2: what are you doing?
- 22:09Speaker 1: He's like that. What, why are you getting irritated?
- 22:11Speaker 2: He's not doing anything.
- 22:12Speaker 1: He's like the best guy ever. It's like, I know.
- 22:14Speaker 2: I don't know what I'm doing. Self-sabotage. Yeah. And so
- 22:18Speaker 2: I just– I went away. I went to Solvang for like– No,
- 22:22Speaker 2: stop it.
- 22:22Speaker 1: You went to Solvang?
- 22:23Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 22:24Speaker 1: I just picked a place. Where did you stay in Solvang?
- 22:27Speaker 1: I have lived up there in that area.
- 22:30Speaker 2: Oh, my God. It's so cute.
- 22:31Speaker 1: For many, many years. I love it. What was the
- 22:34Speaker 1: place called?
- 22:35Speaker 2: It was right on that like little strip. It was
- 22:37Speaker 2: a really cute little place.
- 22:39Speaker 1: Oh, it's nice up there.
- 22:40Speaker 2: Yeah. It was a little boutique hotel, like a really
- 22:43Speaker 2: cute place.
- 22:44Speaker 1: But I just went there and just walked around. It
- 22:46Speaker 1: was in the fall.
- 22:47Speaker 2: I love fall, like where you just caramel apples and
- 22:50Speaker 2: apple cider and stuff like that. And just walked around
- 22:53Speaker 2: eating fudge. And so I was like, it was just
- 22:57Speaker 2: like so weird, but I just needed time just to
- 23:01Speaker 2: get away and think, clear my head and just like
- 23:05Speaker 2: feel what I was feeling basically. And he was very supportive.
- 23:10Speaker 2: He didn't understand it, but he's always very supportive of
- 23:13Speaker 2: anything I need. And And once I was able to
- 23:17Speaker 2: get away and I was able to just do that,
- 23:20Speaker 2: I think it totally worked. I came back and.
- 23:22Speaker 1: I was like, okay, I'm good.
- 23:24Speaker 2: I'm good.
- 23:25Speaker 1: And so you've just celebrated your seventh wedding anniversary? Is
- 23:32Speaker 1: that right?
- 23:34Speaker 2: I think in March. Well, see, we have a marriage
- 23:39Speaker 2: anniversary and a wedding anniversary because we got legally married.
- 23:44Speaker 1: A year before we had our wedding.
- 23:46Speaker 2: That's fun. Yeah. Well, we didn't tell anybody, but it
- 23:52Speaker 2: was kind of a needed to. Yeah. Immigration kind of thing.
- 23:56Speaker 2: But we were together.
- 23:58Speaker 1: We were really together.
- 23:59Speaker 2: But then we wanted to have, he had never been
- 24:01Speaker 2: married and wanted like a proper wedding so his mom
- 24:04Speaker 2: could see her baby boy get married, stuff like that.
- 24:06Speaker 2: And so we planned it. And I think we're going to,
- 24:12Speaker 2: next year will be 10 years. In March. Wow, 10.
- 24:16Speaker 2: I know. March 9th.
- 24:24Speaker 1: You're married to a younger man. How much younger is he?
- 24:26Speaker 1: 13 years.
- 24:27Speaker 2: Okay. Yeah. 13 years.
- 24:28Speaker 1: You've beat me. He's closer to my son's age than …
- 24:33Speaker 1: Because you have a son. You had a son very young.
- 24:35Speaker 2: Yeah. My son's 29. He'll be 30 in March.
- 24:38Speaker 1: I have a daughter who's 29 also. You do?
- 24:40Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 24:41Speaker 1: So we must have … Oh, my God. I mean,
- 24:42Speaker 1: you're younger than me, but still young moms.
- 24:45Speaker 2: In 97. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
- 24:49Speaker 1: How old were you? I was 24.
- 24:51Speaker 2: Okay.
- 24:52Speaker 1: Yeah. A little different.
- 24:53Speaker 2: It's still young, though. I mean, in my opinion. You
- 24:56Speaker 2: were 16? I was 16. Yeah. I recommend everybody be
- 25:00Speaker 2: older than me. Well, actually, no, because it's hard. Like,
- 25:03Speaker 2: to get pregnant, like, I guess, yeah, do it younger
- 25:07Speaker 2: because when you're actually ready, it's so hard.
- 25:09Speaker 1: It is hard. People are waiting. You know, a lot
- 25:11Speaker 1: of people are waiting, especially with the uncertainty in the
- 25:15Speaker 1: world right now and, you know, just all the things.
- 25:18Speaker 1: People are waiting to get pregnant. And that's, you know,
- 25:22Speaker 1: that's okay. And some people are choosing not to get
- 25:24Speaker 1: pregnant at all.
- 25:25Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 25:25Speaker 1: Which, kudos for knowing. My sister is one.
- 25:28Speaker 2: She's like, she … I think she's known since she
- 25:30Speaker 2: was young that she just doesn't want kids. She got
- 25:35Speaker 2: out of her growling phase, but she used to like, like,
- 25:38Speaker 2: and growl at them almost. And I was like, Anna,
- 25:40Speaker 2: don't growl at children. But now she's like, no, they're cute.
- 25:45Speaker 1: But no thanks. Did you ever want another child?
- 25:49Speaker 2: I did at one point. I've had a lot of miscarriages,
- 25:55Speaker 2: and I didn't know why until recently. And I found
- 25:58Speaker 2: out when I was getting my brain scanned actually. I
- 26:01Speaker 2: did a full body scan and I found out that
- 26:06Speaker 2: I have a septum in the middle of my uterus.
- 26:08Speaker 1: So you have just one miracle baby.
- 26:10Speaker 2: One miracle baby. And my husband, thank God, is okay
- 26:13Speaker 2: with that. We have our dog.
- 26:15Speaker 1: Babies and yeah, thankfully he's very understanding.
- 26:19Speaker 2: But I had no idea. We got pregnant together and
- 26:22Speaker 2: I miscarried.
- 26:25Speaker 1: Miscarriages are so common and people don't talk about them. Yeah.
- 26:29Speaker 1: I mean, I've been through a few. It's hard. It's
- 26:32Speaker 1: really hard. Can you share about your healing process? Ooh, yeah.
- 26:38Speaker 2: That one was, this one, I've had multiple.
- 26:40Speaker 1: This one was, it really knocked me down. Especially because
- 26:43Speaker 1: it's with, you know, your love.
- 26:45Speaker 2: Yeah. And I really, I really wanted, I just switched
- 26:51Speaker 2: where I really wanted it so bad and I didn't
- 26:54Speaker 2: realize how bad it was. And it didn't even dawn
- 27:01Speaker 2: on me. Like I was so excited. It didn't, I
- 27:04Speaker 2: forgot about all the other times I miscarried and I
- 27:07Speaker 2: was just so hopeful in my head, making all these plans. And,
- 27:12Speaker 2: and then I think doing it on the show as well. They,
- 27:18Speaker 2: there was no time to grieve. There was no, they,
- 27:21Speaker 2: they were rushing to my house and remain like right
- 27:24Speaker 2: from the, from the doctor's appointment, finding out they were
- 27:27Speaker 2: going to come and see the ultrasound picture. And Roman's like,
- 27:33Speaker 2: don't you dare come over here. And they were like, no,
- 27:36Speaker 2: we just want to, we have to be in the
- 27:37Speaker 2: moment and catch it. He's like, come over and see
- 27:40Speaker 2: what happens. He's like, she needs a minute. And so
- 27:44Speaker 2: they came the next day, the next morning. Literally a minute.
- 27:50Speaker 2: But at least I had like that night just to
- 27:54Speaker 2: just to figure it out. I think I was in
- 27:56Speaker 2: shock still, but I would say for about six months,
- 27:59Speaker 2: I would, I was a shell of myself. I just,
- 28:02Speaker 2: I would put on a smile and, and pretend everything,
- 28:07Speaker 2: just go to work, go film, pretend, like pretend things
- 28:11Speaker 2: are okay. I think my book was coming out right
- 28:15Speaker 2: around then. I was trying to still do that and stuff.
- 28:18Speaker 2: And then I had to start talking about that. So
- 28:20Speaker 2: every time I would try to like let things go
- 28:22Speaker 2: and stuff, like, I would just have to talk about it.
- 28:25Speaker 2: And it was so raw because I just never, I
- 28:28Speaker 2: don't know.
- 28:29Speaker 1: It was just, it was hard. It was very hard. Yeah. It's, it's,
- 28:36Speaker 1: it's happened so quickly. Like one second you're on top
- 28:40Speaker 1: of the world and have all this hope and excitement. Yeah.
- 28:44Speaker 1: And I don't know about for you, especially since we're
- 28:47Speaker 1: both with younger men, I felt like I needed to
- 28:51Speaker 1: have a baby for my husband because he didn't have
- 28:55Speaker 1: a child. I had already had three. Yep. And you
- 28:58Speaker 1: already had your one. That's the same.
- 29:00Speaker 2: It was the same.
- 29:00Speaker 1: And so I thought, oh, he needs to have a child.
- 29:02Speaker 1: He's such a great guy. He needs to be a father.
- 29:04Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 29:05Speaker 1: And I want to be the person to do that
- 29:06Speaker 1: for him.
- 29:07Speaker 2: Yep.
- 29:08Speaker 1: And I was really attached to that.
- 29:10Speaker 2: Yep.
- 29:11Speaker 1: Which made it so much harder.
- 29:13Speaker 2: He wanted a family. He wanted kids. And I thought
- 29:16Speaker 2: it's so unfair not to give that to him. I mean,
- 29:20Speaker 2: I've been there, done that. But once I got pregnant,
- 29:23Speaker 2: everything changed. Like, I wanted it so bad.
- 29:26Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it was hard. In retrospect, I mean, first
- 29:36Speaker 1: of all, how are you now with it?
- 29:39Speaker 2: I'm fine. I'm better now. Yeah. I try not to
- 29:43Speaker 2: think about it too much, but I'm okay now. I just,
- 29:48Speaker 2: I won't do it again because I know the outcome
- 29:51Speaker 2: now and at least I know that. But yeah.
- 29:55Speaker 1: Sometimes I look back now, this would have been We
- 29:58Speaker 1: would have had a preteen by now if our pregnancies
- 30:04Speaker 1: had made it. And I sometimes look back now at
- 30:08Speaker 1: this stage of my life and think, I'm actually pretty
- 30:11Speaker 1: grateful to have a baby. Yeah.
- 30:15Speaker 2: I've thought that about with my second husband, we did
- 30:17Speaker 2: in vitro because he had a blockage. And I was like, oh,
- 30:20Speaker 2: good Lord. Thank God that didn't happen. Things happen for
- 30:23Speaker 2: a reason. And I still like.
- 30:27Speaker 2: I feel bad even saying that because it was, but
- 30:30Speaker 2: I would be attached to him forever. And he was
- 30:32Speaker 2: a nightmare, an absolute nightmare.
- 30:35Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Well, I'm so happy you're in a
- 30:38Speaker 1: healthier relationship now. That means amazing. What have you learned
- 30:42Speaker 1: about relationships from maybe that nightmare or from your current
- 30:48Speaker 1: situation or all your personal work? Like what would you
- 30:51Speaker 1: tell your best friend is the most important thing when,
- 30:55Speaker 1: you know, in relationships?
- 30:59Speaker 2: Trust. I think trust and letting each other just be
- 31:06Speaker 2: who they are. You're never going to change somebody. And
- 31:09Speaker 2: you have to just love them and accept them for
- 31:12Speaker 2: who they are and let them be themselves. Like if
- 31:14Speaker 2: you try to hold them back or change like their personality,
- 31:20Speaker 2: no one's ever going to be happy. That's who they are.
- 31:22Speaker 2: Be with them or don't. And you have to respect
- 31:26Speaker 2: and love or sometimes tolerate. who it is, but that's
- 31:30Speaker 2: who they are. And so trying to change them, you're
- 31:33Speaker 2: only setting yourself up for disappointment.
- 31:36Speaker 1: It's very true. I've tried to change it. Yeah.
- 31:39Speaker 2: It doesn't work.
- 31:41Speaker 1: It backfires.
- 31:41Speaker 2: I don't really know why.
- 31:44Speaker 1: Yeah. You're lucky. Everybody's not so lucky and breakups are
- 31:48Speaker 1: really tough and you and I have both experienced them.
- 31:51Speaker 1: What would you tell somebody that's going through a breakup?
- 31:55Speaker 1: Because I know your friend Oh, yeah. I mean, I
- 31:59Speaker 1: was reading about it. She just broke up with– Yeah.
- 32:02Speaker 2: I'm not sure. I mean, we haven't really kept in
- 32:04Speaker 2: touch since the show. But, I mean, she's an amazing human,
- 32:11Speaker 2: just incredible energy and stuff. I don't know the details
- 32:14Speaker 2: of what happened or why, but I just, you know,
- 32:19Speaker 2: I can't give any insight on that. But I hope
- 32:21Speaker 2: that they're okay because breakups suck.
- 32:24Speaker 1: Yeah. What would you– What have you learned about breakups
- 32:29Speaker 1: that got you through it?
- 32:36Speaker 2: Okay. So I was just giving this advice to Sandra, actually.
- 32:42Speaker 2: She was on the show as well. She just went
- 32:45Speaker 2: through one. And I think that you always feel like
- 32:48Speaker 2: you're never it's so consuming, like the pain and, and
- 32:53Speaker 2: thinking about like what if, and, and what you could
- 32:56Speaker 2: have done or what they did or the anger from
- 32:59Speaker 2: what they did or something like that, whatever the situation is,
- 33:02Speaker 2: you feel like you're so consumed by it and so
- 33:05Speaker 2: overwhelmed by it. And you're never going to get out
- 33:07Speaker 2: of that feeling, that heartbreak. And just think back to
- 33:12Speaker 2: the last time. And, and the, cause I, I just
- 33:15Speaker 2: say like, have you, when was last time you guys had, had,
- 33:19Speaker 2: broken up, like your ex, did you feel like this? Yeah.
- 33:22Speaker 2: It's like, did you make it through it?
- 33:24Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
- 33:25Speaker 2: Did you like, do you want him back? No. Right.
- 33:28Speaker 2: And so it's like, okay, it's going to be the
- 33:29Speaker 2: same thing. It's like, you don't know that now, but
- 33:32Speaker 2: just keep that in mind. It's like, you always make
- 33:34Speaker 2: it through. You stuck in the moment. It doesn't feel
- 33:37Speaker 2: like it, but everything is temporary and this will be too.
- 33:41Speaker 1: So. That's great perspective to have because when you're in it,
- 33:46Speaker 1: you can't see. Right. the light.
- 33:50Speaker 2: No, no, you can't. But it always passes. Everything does.
- 33:55Speaker 2: It just takes time and it sucks in the meantime,
- 33:59Speaker 2: but you'll get through it.
- 34:01Speaker 1: This is so true. Good advice. This is so much fun. Okay.
- 34:06Speaker 1: We couldn't squeeze all of our conversation into just one episode.
- 34:09Speaker 1: So come back for more. And until then, plan some
- 34:13Speaker 1: time away all by yourself. It doesn't have to be Bali.
- 34:17Speaker 1: It can be taking yourself out to lunch. You deserve it.
- 34:21Speaker 1: See you soon.