Speaker 1: Hey everybody. I'm Jenny Garth and I am joined today
Speaker 1: on the Mommy and Me podcast by my me. This
Speaker 1: is my little me.
Speaker 2: Hi, I'm the me. I'm Luca Bella. I'm Jenny's oldest daughter.
Speaker 1: You're my first little baby me. Yes, it's your first,
Speaker 1: my first born. We are taking over Bethany's podcast today.
Speaker 1: This is pretty fun.
Speaker 2: It's just like hanging out. Though I purposely didn't call
Speaker 2: you earlier because I was like, we gotta have some
Speaker 2: juice for the for the pod. I call you like
Speaker 2: choice to day three times a day before before noon.
Speaker 1: For those of the of you that don't know, Luca
Speaker 1: is living in New York City now and I'm living
Speaker 1: in California, So we're a by coastal mommy and me.
Speaker 2: Longest and relationship. We make it work.
Speaker 1: We make it work.
Speaker 2: We we're honestly together a lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah. We zoom while I'm driving, which is probably not
Speaker 1: a good idea. We zoom while we're making dinner at
Speaker 1: our different houses. Anytime you go on the subway, I
Speaker 1: feel like you zoom me because then I have a
Speaker 1: panic attack.
Speaker 2: Also, it's like very loud and you're like, why are
Speaker 2: you going me? At the loudest moment.
Speaker 1: That's the worst. But every time you go to the
Speaker 1: subway and you're I can hear you like click click click,
Speaker 1: like walking downstairs. I can hear like the thing, like
Speaker 1: the money when you put the card, and the like
Speaker 1: turnstile thing. And then I can hear you standing there waiting,
Speaker 1: and my mind is just racing with all the bad
Speaker 1: things that could happen to you down there. And then
Speaker 1: this is the best part. We'll be talking mid sentence,
Speaker 1: I'll just lose you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll cut out. Yeah, sorry, let the subway.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, But you know what happens to my mommy
Speaker 1: brain at that point, I'm like full blown panic. What
Speaker 1: someone's pushed her onto the tracks, There's been a gunfight,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think of the worst possible scenarios
Speaker 1: when that happens.
Speaker 2: Usually I'm just hanging up on you. I'm sorry. I
Speaker 2: do abruptly out a lot.
Speaker 1: Oh, well, you are a big girl. I guess I
Speaker 1: should let you take the subway.
Speaker 2: I you know, I am out here hustling. I'm out
Speaker 2: here grinding, so every day you never.
Speaker 1: Know, You're not kidding. Living in New York City is
Speaker 1: a ussle. It's a grind.
Speaker 2: Yeah. They say that New York is hard on the body,
Speaker 2: but Ela is hard on the soul. They say, I've
Speaker 2: heard that. I think it's funny because La is a
Speaker 2: little dryer. I feel like New York you just get
Speaker 2: like so much culture and so much you know, energy.
Speaker 2: So I feel like it's a really good place for
Speaker 2: me at this chapter in my life, but definitely definitely
Speaker 2: a harder place to live.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Every time I come to visit you in New
Speaker 1: York's city, we walk at least fourteen thousand steps in
Speaker 1: a day.
Speaker 2: Well, I feel like I'm hard on you, and we
Speaker 2: come because I really love to walk, so you do,
Speaker 2: Oh it's only two blocks away, and then I'll there
Speaker 2: minutes later. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The thing we all know about you is you lie
Speaker 1: about how far our destination is. Because you'll say it's
Speaker 1: two blocks, and in two blocks, I'll be like, are
Speaker 1: we here yet? You say no, no, no, it's just
Speaker 1: two more blocks. And that happens over and over and over,
Speaker 1: and Yeah. I don't know why you do that. I
Speaker 1: guess you don't want me to know how far it is,
Speaker 1: because you know, I'll be like, let's get in a taxi.
Speaker 2: I feel like it feels like two blocks to me,
Speaker 2: but to other people.
Speaker 1: Well, your legs are really long, right, and you are
Speaker 1: so used to that life, like I'm used to getting
Speaker 1: in my car to go wherever I want.
Speaker 2: I feel like you have a pretty good setup when
Speaker 2: you ride around. You have your music, you have your dogs,
Speaker 2: like I wish I'm fighting to the New York cold.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I have a lot of respect for you, Luca.
Speaker 1: I mean I have a lot of respect for you
Speaker 1: just because you're amazing, but also because you make living
Speaker 1: in New York City look easy, and I know it's
Speaker 1: not easy.
Speaker 2: To My mom is telling me I should start like
Speaker 2: a TikTok on how to live in New York for
Speaker 2: five dollars a day, because.
Speaker 1: I definitely yeah, tell them.
Speaker 2: I've been known to stretch a dollar in New York City.
Speaker 1: You are a magician when it comes to cash money, Like,
Speaker 1: I don't know how you do it. You don't. This
Speaker 1: girl can literally live in New York City on five
Speaker 1: dollars a week if she wanted to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because you killer problem.
Speaker 1: But where do you think that that ability came from?
Speaker 2: You're good a budget. You always taught me to be
Speaker 2: smart with money, But I just also just like I
Speaker 2: feel like I have like a less a zest for life,
Speaker 2: Like I like to like do a lot. So it's
Speaker 2: about like getting as much done as possible, and you know,
Speaker 2: you got to stretch it when you can.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you can get into any door with that
Speaker 1: smile of yours and your personality. You can get into
Speaker 1: any museum for free. Like, I don't know how you
Speaker 1: do it. You're a master at all of that. I
Speaker 1: have a lot of respect for you.
Speaker 2: I have a lot of respect for you. I feel
Speaker 2: like that's one of my favorite things about our adult
Speaker 2: mother daughter relationship is that it's founded on really great
Speaker 2: mutual respect. And I don't really know when that started.
Speaker 2: Do you remember, because I feel like we've always been
Speaker 2: really close. But I feel like as I've gotten older
Speaker 2: and you've gotten older, it's just really deepened in a
Speaker 2: really beautiful way.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, first of all, I haven't gotten older.
Speaker 2: You are a rich one. No.
Speaker 1: I We've always had such a good relationship. You were
Speaker 1: the baby, you were the first child that your dad
Speaker 1: and I had, and we were so young, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: So it was like we were growing up together. I
Speaker 1: think that's probably one of the things that bonded us
Speaker 1: the most, and when I had you, like nothing else mattered.
Speaker 1: All that mattered was spending time with you. So we
Speaker 1: spent so much time together.
Speaker 2: But I still feel like you're that way, like anytime
Speaker 2: we have time off or any time you're not working,
Speaker 2: like we're together or we're making plans to meet up
Speaker 2: somewhere and have an adventure, Like I think that's something
Speaker 2: you really made a value in your motherhood, is presence
Speaker 2: and being there and always showing up. And yeah, I
Speaker 2: just really am inspired by that.
Speaker 1: Oh thanks Lou. Yeah, it's really hard on me having
Speaker 1: you live in New York, I'll be honest, but you
Speaker 1: already know that I tried not to put it on you.
Speaker 2: I love how you text me every night or at
Speaker 2: least every day once a day and like saco nay
Speaker 2: or check in. Like, I still feel like you're very
Speaker 2: present in my life.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I think that's called helicopter mom.
Speaker 2: No, I think you're the opposite. I don't think you
Speaker 2: ever were like super involved in like my decisions. I
Speaker 2: think you're very like hands off, And that's going back
Speaker 2: to the mutual respect thing. It's like you just trust
Speaker 2: me to make the best decisions for myself. And yeah,
Speaker 2: I just I love your parenting style. I hope if
Speaker 2: I'm ever a mommy that can be as good mommy
Speaker 2: as you thought.
Speaker 1: I can't wait till you're a mommy.
Speaker 2: Told me many times. I'm alone.
Speaker 1: I like babies.
Speaker 2: No no, no, no, no, you're right, just wait, keep waiting.
Speaker 1: But going back to that thing about parenting, I I
Speaker 1: was looking through my old journals the other day and
Speaker 1: I saw this part about like I don't know, I
Speaker 1: was talking about being a parent, and I was kind
Speaker 1: of defined my rule as a parent. It's if I
Speaker 1: imagine a ping No, no, what's that thing? Your dad
Speaker 1: has one with Elvis on it? The machine, the.
Speaker 2: Player ping pong ball, pinball.
Speaker 1: Pinball, pinball, Yes, if you have a okay, So it's
Speaker 1: like a pinball machine, right, and I'm standing I'm playing it,
Speaker 1: and I'm standing there, and I have the two buttons
Speaker 1: on the side and they control the flippers.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: So I launched you out, No, no, no, I can
Speaker 1: only flippers. I launched you out of the huote that
Speaker 1: little thing you pull back and you're like ding. And
Speaker 1: when you go into the world into the ping ball machine,
Speaker 1: and you ding did ding ding ding, did ding ding
Speaker 1: ding ding ding, And then when you come down to me,
Speaker 1: I'm right there to push my little flippers to like
Speaker 1: get you back up there. And I feel like that's all.
Speaker 1: That's all I'm supposed to do as a mom, is
Speaker 1: just keep you going on your life and be there
Speaker 1: to help you and keep you from falling down on
Speaker 1: the shoes.
Speaker 2: I don't want to fall down there.
Speaker 1: No, So that's that's my parenting analogy for the day.
Speaker 1: You're welcome.
Speaker 2: No, it's really really true, and I think it's kind
Speaker 2: of rare because I have a lot of friends and
Speaker 2: you know, even family members where their parents are way
Speaker 2: more involved, and I feel like you're just what you said,
Speaker 2: like somebody to kind of like support but not be
Speaker 2: two hands on.
Speaker 1: You know, I have so much respect for each of
Speaker 1: you girls, you and your sisters, because I know what
Speaker 1: is inside of you, and I know what each of
Speaker 1: you are capable of, and I know what each of
Speaker 1: your strong suits are and where you need a little
Speaker 1: bit more, you know, guidance or support, and and I
Speaker 1: really think that having that support and that respect, having
Speaker 1: that respect for your your young teenagers or girls as
Speaker 1: they get older in life I think that's vital to
Speaker 1: a healthy mother daughter relationship because I'm not as much
Speaker 1: your mommy now as I am your friend or your
Speaker 1: sort of mentor kind of a vibe. And I really
Speaker 1: take that seriously.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I'm the oldest, so I feel like you
Speaker 2: kind of spread us each like there's five years kind
Speaker 2: of between each of us, and so we're all at
Speaker 2: different chapters in our lives and we all kind of
Speaker 2: need different things. And I feel like you're really good
Speaker 2: about individualizing our parenting, like not just you know, kind
Speaker 2: of can go out making us one. So yeah, I
Speaker 2: feel like, is that hard for you as a mom
Speaker 2: to like hit our different needs at different times? You
Speaker 2: have no idea? So I feel like I always kept
Speaker 2: more in the childhood world for a long time because
Speaker 2: we're very siblings. Like Sanna came until I was like
Speaker 2: twenty one. You know it still come.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you've got five years. First of all, you
Speaker 1: got five years completely on your own, best years ever know,
Speaker 1: before your first sister Lola came along. No, but you
Speaker 1: say always that's the best gift you ever got.
Speaker 2: Best gift I ever got. And it's funny because when
Speaker 2: you told me about Lola, you were like, I'm giving
Speaker 2: you this gift, like this is a huge responsibility as
Speaker 2: a big sister, Like you'll have her as a best
Speaker 2: friend forever. And I feel like that's how I shape
Speaker 2: my whole view of being a sister, is that this
Speaker 2: is like my best friend playmate that I get to have,
Speaker 2: and you gave her to me. So I have so
Speaker 2: much to be grateful to you for.
Speaker 1: You're welcome, and then I gave you another one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1: You're so lucky to have. I have sisters, you know, like.
Speaker 2: That are older older than me. You're the youngest, I'm
Speaker 2: the oldest. This is they're like.
Speaker 1: Half My sisters are all half sisters. Though they have
Speaker 1: different dads, they'll have the same mom. But we're very
Speaker 1: different then, you know, we have very different lifestyles, each
Speaker 1: one of us. And I always really it was really
Speaker 1: always so important to me when I had you guys,
Speaker 1: to keep you together forever, whether you wanted it or not.
Speaker 2: But we mostly wanted it. Like I feel like to
Speaker 2: this day, like we still want to hang out all
Speaker 2: the time, like us girls, like the Garth Girls is
Speaker 2: what we call ourselves, and like we are such a
Speaker 2: unit and we've been through so much together, and I
Speaker 2: think we really value just like being strong, independent women together.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I couldn't be prouder of you, baby.
Speaker 2: But that's an interesting thing because you have older sisters
Speaker 2: and I have younger sisters. So how do you think
Speaker 2: that makes us different the way we look at well,
Speaker 2: our birth order. You know, there's a there's something to theory. Yeah,
Speaker 2: birth order is like a big thing. Like you're the
Speaker 2: oldest and that's a whole different cup of tea.
Speaker 1: I'm the baby of my family.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's snotty brat sometimes.
Speaker 2: Well I think you and Fiona, who's my youngest sister,
Speaker 2: really see things similarly sometimes, and you and Williss sometimes
Speaker 2: get frustrated because we're like, hey.
Speaker 1: I know, I know, I see it. Trust me.
Speaker 2: That's the other thing is you're very aware as a mommy,
Speaker 2: Like you're very in tune with like I don't know
Speaker 2: just how we see you. And I mean because you.
Speaker 1: Guys are my everything. Like work is important to me,
Speaker 1: my marriage is important to me. Yeah, and my fam
Speaker 1: my home is important to me. And that is it.
Speaker 1: Like but you guys with your other children, oh yeah them,
Speaker 1: but my fur babies. But you guys have always been
Speaker 1: my number one priority, no matter what, does not matter.
Speaker 1: And I think most moms would say that, but you
Speaker 1: don't really understand that until you become a mommy, your
Speaker 1: priorities just shift. And it's okay that I was actually
Speaker 1: relieved when I had a kid because I could shift
Speaker 1: the attention off of myself, which I'm not comfortable you know,
Speaker 1: worrying or thinking or being like too self important. You know, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was like so great for me to be able
Speaker 1: to have you guys that I could put all my
Speaker 1: love and energy into. And it's so reciprocated because everything
Speaker 1: I've ever given to you girls has been returned to
Speaker 1: me tenfold, and you guys teach me every day how
Speaker 1: to be a better person.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Mom, I mean, I love you too because
Speaker 2: I missed you.
Speaker 1: I hold each other's hands, don't we We do?
Speaker 2: We do hold each other's hands. And I was going
Speaker 2: to say that you it might be normal for a
Speaker 2: mom to make their kids the priority, but I feel
Speaker 2: like you've taught us to make our family priory and
Speaker 2: to make just I feel like as a daughter, my
Speaker 2: mom my dad were always my priority to like, even
Speaker 2: in my like teenage angsty years, which were very short.
Speaker 2: I think, really, let's talk about those. I don't have
Speaker 2: like a long like teenage period, but I still think
Speaker 2: like my family was always the most important thing to me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yep, for sure. So I have a question. Oh, yes,
Speaker 1: you know I'm doing a podcast now, right.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm like a super fan. I actually listened this
Speaker 2: morning on my way to work on my subway commute.
Speaker 2: I I'm such I literally, I'm so proud of you.
Speaker 2: I really love it. I feel like it's such You're
Speaker 2: just a great storyteller. It's just so you like the
Speaker 2: way you tell stories. I listened to the Dave episode,
Speaker 2: so the episode of my stepdad, and I was given
Speaker 2: a shout out.
Speaker 1: You talk about how you didn't want us to get married.
Speaker 2: Yes, that story is really funny. They like showed up
Speaker 2: at my school and we're like, hey, we're getting married.
Speaker 2: And I was eating my little sushi bowl that you
Speaker 2: brought me with my chopsticks, and I was like, I
Speaker 2: do not approve.
Speaker 1: Yep, I remember, trust me, but you.
Speaker 2: Still want ahead with it. So it's right. And it
Speaker 2: was a really really beautiful wedding. And I think you
Speaker 2: obviously had way more like perspective on everything than me
Speaker 2: at seventeen, but she just wanted to protect her mommy,
Speaker 2: a little seventeen year old.
Speaker 1: I know you always do. You girls are so fiercely
Speaker 1: protective of me.
Speaker 2: It's crazy.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to be a dude walking in here
Speaker 1: date me or marry me.
Speaker 2: Do you remember my one rule when you were dating
Speaker 2: a little bit? No, I was like, they can come,
Speaker 2: but they have to bring us gifts to the house.
Speaker 2: Like it was like I wanted them to be like
Speaker 2: old fashioned suitors, like bring like a fruit play or
Speaker 2: like a little snack or something plight you just like snacks.
Speaker 1: Let's just leave it at that.
Speaker 2: I needed you to have like suitors like in the
Speaker 2: nineteenth century.
Speaker 1: Well you, that's the thing about you, You, Luca, are
Speaker 1: a nineteenth century like heroin You were you were you?
Speaker 1: And I love reading our period pieces, our books and
Speaker 1: watching our Buccaneer Center. What else? What other show do
Speaker 1: we just love?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we get a little obsessed with things like.
Speaker 1: We see, like we choose to see life like that
Speaker 1: because it's so much prettier, just more I don't know, rewarding.
Speaker 2: So I don't know, it was very simple. It feels
Speaker 2: like a idealized time, but obviously they had their own
Speaker 2: chaos problems.
Speaker 1: I was wondering. I was asking a question I forgot about.
Speaker 1: Oh podcast, So oh yeah, but the podcast I choose.
Speaker 2: I'm a super fan, Yes, superfan.
Speaker 1: You've listened to it. You haven't been on it yet,
Speaker 1: but you will.
Speaker 2: Well, you told me this is like my audition. So
Speaker 2: that's why I'm nervous today because I want to be
Speaker 2: on yours, but I honored to be on this.
Speaker 1: What do you think about Like you're listening to me
Speaker 1: and your little ears on your subway, and it's just
Speaker 1: me and you in that moment, you're the only one
Speaker 1: listening to it, But actually the entire world can listen
Speaker 1: to what I'm saying, And sometimes I think of that.
Speaker 1: I'm like, whoa first of all, but also what do
Speaker 1: you think of it? As my daughter?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: How do you feel with me putting myself out there
Speaker 1: in such a vulnerable way and talking about things I've
Speaker 1: never talked about and talking about our lives?
Speaker 2: I think it takes immense courage. I think that I
Speaker 2: just really, I'm proud of you for telling me your story,
Speaker 2: and I'm excited to see you where else you go
Speaker 2: with it. I'm excited to hear stories I've never heard
Speaker 2: before because obviously I am your daughter and one of
Speaker 2: your closest friends, but there's probably still some story that
Speaker 2: I've never heard, so I'm excited to hear those. And
Speaker 2: I'm it's just like you get to live in my
Speaker 2: ears right like all day when I'm like all so,
Speaker 2: but it's just it's been fun so far. So I'm
Speaker 2: excited for the gross and I really love the messaging
Speaker 2: of it about choosing yourself first, and that's something that
Speaker 2: you have always instilled in me as a daughter, putting
Speaker 2: my strength and myself first. Yeah, so I'm excited for
Speaker 2: other people who need to learn that wisdom too, to
Speaker 2: get to learn and hear more from your experiences.
Speaker 1: Well, I feel like I've always taught you guys that
Speaker 1: that you are the director of your life. You are
Speaker 1: the CEO of your company called you you. It's you
Speaker 1: are in charge. And I've always wanted to make sure
Speaker 1: you girls know that and like live your life leading
Speaker 1: with that because you have everything it takes to go
Speaker 1: out in the world and do whatever you want. And
Speaker 1: I've always really tried to make you guys feel confident
Speaker 1: and strong and know also how to be safe in
Speaker 1: a world that isn't always welcoming to confident and strong women.
Speaker 2: And like the day to day as you were talking
Speaker 2: about in the beginning of this kind of beats you down.
Speaker 2: It's just hard in the real world. And I feel
Speaker 2: like just coming back to the foundation that you gave
Speaker 2: us and like a little reminder. Now it's a podcast
Speaker 2: when I get to listen to your advice on repeat,
Speaker 2: and it's just the daily little reminder that I need,
Speaker 2: you know, to keep my head up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know what, you are also really talented writer,
Speaker 1: and I turned to you often for things.
Speaker 2: You a little bit, but honestly, like you are doing
Speaker 2: it on your own, Like this is such a passion
Speaker 2: project for you, and I'm just really proud to support you.
Speaker 2: Like sometimes I write little messages before she'll record the podcast,
Speaker 2: but I feel like it's just like inspiration for you
Speaker 2: to jump off of because it's all there. And yeah,
Speaker 2: I feel like you're just a really good interviewer too,
Speaker 2: Like I love hearing you in conversation with other people,
Speaker 2: so I'm excited to hear even more and all the
Speaker 2: guests you'll have on in the future. It's just the
Speaker 2: beginning the beginning, just the beginning. Yeah, I love that
Speaker 2: this show exists, So thank you Beth and for creating it,
Speaker 2: because it's really cool to hear like all the different
Speaker 2: mother daughter duos. And I know that this show is
Speaker 2: just starting too, so I'm excited to see where this grows,
Speaker 2: because Yeah, I just feel like mother and daughter relationships
Speaker 2: are so special, and yeah, I feel like they're they're
Speaker 2: all so different. It's just interesting to hear that the
Speaker 2: line seems a lot of different mommy and daddy to do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I had a really different relationship with my mom
Speaker 1: than any of you have with me, and I I
Speaker 1: think I've really done that intentionally because the relationship I
Speaker 1: have with my mom. I love my mom. My Mom's
Speaker 1: one of the smartest people I know. She has taught
Speaker 1: me everything I know and more, and I have so
Speaker 1: much respect for her and what she's done over the
Speaker 1: course of her life. Now, of course, she's in her
Speaker 1: eighties and it's hard, you know, to watch me me
Speaker 1: getting older, and but she's always been such a fire cracker,
Speaker 1: so full of it.
Speaker 2: I wonder where gem I know my mom is.
Speaker 1: Like a deep, deep river and had I didn't really
Speaker 1: value that as much as I do now, because I
Speaker 1: don't know why. I was just probably like I always
Speaker 1: felt like maybe not the best daughter because I didn't
Speaker 1: really let my mom in as much as I make
Speaker 1: you guys let me in.
Speaker 2: I feel like that relationship has definitely ebbed and flowed
Speaker 2: where there were periods where she was less involved in
Speaker 2: your life. I think you've made it a priority where
Speaker 2: you want to be like super involved in all three
Speaker 2: of our lives, you know, yeah, yeah, but yeah, it's
Speaker 2: interesting generationally because my Memi and I have our own
Speaker 2: separate relationship, then you and your mom, you know, like
Speaker 2: that's your mom, but it's also my grandmother, and it's
Speaker 2: just interesting to see like the generations of women and.
Speaker 1: What a great Memi you have. She taught you to
Speaker 1: read so early, remember, I.
Speaker 2: Know, and you were working a lot when I was
Speaker 2: very very little. So if we have anything maybe grateful
Speaker 2: for it is that she was right there and she
Speaker 2: was very present and helpful for you when we were
Speaker 2: working so hard. And yeah, that's another huge reason that
Speaker 2: I have a lot of respect for you, is because
Speaker 2: you were a super mom, Like you were literally taking
Speaker 2: me to set with you and making time to be
Speaker 2: a mother amongst like the craziness of filming, the long
Speaker 2: hours that you did when you're shooting now, I don't know,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would wake you up at like five am.
Speaker 1: We'll try to not wake you up at one month old. Yeah,
Speaker 1: get you strapped into a car seat in the dark,
Speaker 1: take you to work in the dark. And you're Nina.
Speaker 1: Who when when Mimi wasn't on the job, it was Nina.
Speaker 1: And Nina's been with us and she's helped me raise
Speaker 1: you girls. She's like a second mom to me and
Speaker 1: I know to you guys.
Speaker 2: But for Mother's Day, we celebrate you Mina and me.
Speaker 2: That's right anyway. So yeah, you'd take me to work
Speaker 2: with you, which is crazy because you were literally working
Speaker 2: on a teen show. So that must have been like
Speaker 2: the disorienting so weird.
Speaker 1: I was, like, you know, Kelly Taylor, like hot stuff,
Speaker 1: And meantime, my boobs were hurting because it was time
Speaker 1: to go back to the trailer and feed you.
Speaker 2: Like.
Speaker 1: It was really the weirdest time for me because I
Speaker 1: didn't I didn't have the same identity that I had
Speaker 1: a month earlier, and I and nobody.
Speaker 2: Was your like maternal leave or like break or did
Speaker 2: you not want one?
Speaker 1: Literally? Man, Yeah, for all of you, I think, oh
Speaker 1: except Fiona. I had a little more time with Fiona
Speaker 1: before I went back to work. But yeah, it was
Speaker 1: like I was living two lives. I was living like
Speaker 1: the life of you know, young little starlet Kelly Taylor whatever,
Speaker 1: playing actress. And then I.
Speaker 2: Would whatever drama she was going through, Yeah, she went
Speaker 2: through it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And then I would after they would call cut,
Speaker 1: I would run literally back to wherever you were the
Speaker 1: baby trailer and I would be like, Okay, let me
Speaker 1: give her to me, let me feed her, like I
Speaker 1: wanted to be with you all the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you made me a priority, which is kind of
Speaker 2: going back to choosing, like what was important to you,
Speaker 2: and you just chose to have me be part of
Speaker 2: the deal. You know, I was going it was a
Speaker 2: two for Yeah. And you did that with Lola too,
Speaker 2: which is like, it's just hard to be working mom.
Speaker 2: A lot of them, a lot of moms have to
Speaker 2: go through that, like balancing work and real life.
Speaker 1: It's so so much more than people even know or
Speaker 1: give it, give women and mom's credit for. And I
Speaker 1: was so fortunate and blessed to be able to take
Speaker 1: my girls with me to work and bring someone along
Speaker 1: like Nina or Mimi to help me while when I
Speaker 1: did have to go to set, and I was very
Speaker 1: fortunate to be in that position, because so often women
Speaker 1: aren't able to take their children to work with them,
Speaker 1: or there's no childcare available. And I think that that's
Speaker 1: something we should all We should definitely change, you know,
Speaker 1: societal because babies belong with their mommies. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Still, I still feel like I.
Speaker 1: Could talk to you all day long, Luca Bella.
Speaker 2: I feel like we usually do.
Speaker 1: Did you know your name is Luca Bella?
Speaker 2: Okay, so that this is actually a problem in my
Speaker 2: life because my parents have given me an identity crisis.
Speaker 2: Who were like, I don't know how to spell my
Speaker 2: name and my mom spells it because.
Speaker 1: Your dad and I. Another one of the things that
Speaker 1: we don't agree with.
Speaker 2: Is giving me some very difficult paperwork and legal issues,
Speaker 2: all thanks to you.
Speaker 1: Well, your name is Luca Bella, girth Faction Elli. And
Speaker 1: don't you forget it.
Speaker 2: It's a full title. Your name is Jennifer Eve Garth.
Speaker 2: That's it, Abrams.
Speaker 1: No, Well, I guess marital maritally legal, yes, But I
Speaker 1: kept I always kept my own name. I hope you
Speaker 1: guys will too.
Speaker 2: Because yeah, that's your title. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't really get why a woman needs to give
Speaker 1: up her name just because she gets married. That's never
Speaker 1: made sense to me.
Speaker 2: Sometimes peopel like the sound the ring of a new
Speaker 2: last that's something fun, Like what if you were like
Speaker 2: Jennifer Jones. There's something like really fun. I don't know.
Speaker 1: And it's your choice. You can change your name, whatever
Speaker 1: you want.
Speaker 2: To choose, whatever you want to choose, you to choose
Speaker 2: whatever shipped to steer h But I'm just really excited
Speaker 2: for all that to come, and hopefully I did a
Speaker 2: good job and you'll have me on.
Speaker 1: Yes, you've you've passed, you've passed the audition. You've won
Speaker 1: the role as my daughter.
Speaker 2: I love you, I love you.