Speaker 1: What's going on? How's everybody, dude? It's got back from
Speaker 1: a run and I run with Caral my bloodhound. We
Speaker 1: got back and our other dog, or Sarah's dog, Boo
Speaker 1: kind of princess out from the kitchen, and that little
Speaker 1: stinker got in the trash. I'll tell you that story
Speaker 1: and tell you a different story because maybe like a
Speaker 1: week ago, you might have seen it on my Instagram
Speaker 1: or on my TikTok. Was about a week ago. I
Speaker 1: come home and I go into the kitchen and Carl
Speaker 1: is nose deep in the trash. It's everywhere in the kitchen,
Speaker 1: all right, so much trash strewn about. So Carl gets
Speaker 1: into a lot of trouble. Okay, he gets yelled at,
Speaker 1: he gets sent to his little kennel, gets reprimanded. I'm
Speaker 1: sitting there thinking, oh my god, Boo is such a
Speaker 1: good girl. She knew that what he was doing was wrong.
Speaker 1: She has gone upstairs and she stayed out of the trouble.
Speaker 1: And I was the night before that, I had been
Speaker 1: cooking fish and so I had floured the fish and
Speaker 1: pants here and everything. So there's a bunch of flour
Speaker 1: in the trash. So I get a treat to go
Speaker 1: upstairs to give the boot because she was such a
Speaker 1: good girl. And I go upstairs and what do I see?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, her snout is completely white, like she's been
Speaker 1: hanging out with Charlie Sheen all night long. Little stinker,
Speaker 1: she got in the trash. So when I got back
Speaker 1: from run the day, which, by the way, I've now
Speaker 1: been diligent about closing the trash drawer so the dogs
Speaker 1: don't get in it. When I come back today, I'm
Speaker 1: near thinking I think that Coral was a Patsy. He
Speaker 1: was a fall guy because boost somehow figured out how
Speaker 1: to open up the drawer and get the trash owl.
Speaker 1: It's called and do it this time, And we were
Speaker 1: prancing down Ventura Boulevard. I don't know I'm telling that
Speaker 1: story other than can't trust these dogs, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. All Right, let's uh, let's do the show.
Speaker 1: This is the Wells Cast with Wells Adams and I
Speaker 1: Heart Radio podcast. Yeah, welcome to the Wells Cast. Excited
Speaker 1: for today's episode. I feel like Andy Cohen, you know,
Speaker 1: anytime I get to do a housewife, I'm like, I'm
Speaker 1: Andy Cohen, now taking your job, and we're going to
Speaker 1: New Jersey. That's right. Today's episode stars one of my
Speaker 1: favorite housewife, Jennifer Aiden, and she's going to dish out everything,
Speaker 1: all the tea on her parents, having to bribe her
Speaker 1: kids to do the show, how she met her husband.
Speaker 1: She got dating tips for us. Oh yeah. Also, she's
Speaker 1: got a new beauty pillow but she's slinging. She's one
Speaker 1: of the realists of all the real housewives. This is
Speaker 1: an episode you do not want to miss. Stick around
Speaker 1: Jennifer Aiden right here on the Wells cast. Hello, Hello,
Speaker 1: can you hear me? I can hear you? Can you
Speaker 1: hear me? I can? They did it right? You did
Speaker 1: it right? And you are I like this set up.
Speaker 1: This is a badass set up. You look like a
Speaker 1: queen on the throne right there. I am the Queen
Speaker 1: of thrones. Well Adams, if you didn't know, then you
Speaker 1: better ask somebody. The new Calisi now it resides in
Speaker 1: New Jersey, apparently, you know what. I have a lot
Speaker 1: of thrones in the house. And I don't know if
Speaker 1: you watched my first season, but I went to China
Speaker 1: to get furniture and my husband loves ornate regal furniture,
Speaker 1: and I had a container to fill and they were
Speaker 1: so great and the price going through so you know,
Speaker 1: affordable compared to what we have here. And I was like,
Speaker 1: just give me a ton of throne. And then it
Speaker 1: became like a joke. Everybody was like, and you know,
Speaker 1: my house was famous for having sixteen bathrooms, so I
Speaker 1: talked about those being my thrones, so I'd laugh about it.
Speaker 1: And now I just like somebody had tweeted me that
Speaker 1: I was the queen of thrones, and I'm like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, I love that. I'm gonna take that and
Speaker 1: run with it. So here I am. You're the Oprah
Speaker 1: of thrones. That's right, that's exactly what. Everybody gets a
Speaker 1: throne in my house. We don't discriminate now, Jennifer Braden,
Speaker 1: how are you doing. I'm doing great, Thank you. I'm
Speaker 1: excited to be here. I've had a busy day. I
Speaker 1: have a very busy day. Well that's okay. I made
Speaker 1: time for you. Thank you. I won't keep you too long.
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess, yes, you are the Queen of thrones,
Speaker 1: but I guess you're also the queen of beauty pillows.
Speaker 1: I am, I am this. My beauty pillow is a
Speaker 1: non choking hazard. Which is a must in a beauty
Speaker 1: pillow because there's others on the market that just have
Speaker 1: a contraption against your neck. No, we don't want any
Speaker 1: asshixiation happening. We want a nice, comfortable, cozy, snuggly beauty pillow.
Speaker 1: And I have run right here. Pleasure asphyxiation has to
Speaker 1: be consensual in the bed, I suppose. So you sent
Speaker 1: me one of these ultimate beauty pillows and I absolutely
Speaker 1: do appreciate it. But guess what, my fiance has already
Speaker 1: stolen it, so that's hers. Now tell everyone how this
Speaker 1: all came about. Well, I don't know if you know.
Speaker 1: My husband is a plastic surgeon. One part of this
Speaker 1: practice is also a medspot, so they do a lot
Speaker 1: of facials. We do a lot of laser treatments, injectables
Speaker 1: such as lip fillers, face fillers, and botox, and you know,
Speaker 1: after care protocol one oh one is not to sleep
Speaker 1: on your face when you get injectibles. It can move
Speaker 1: the filler around. It could really leave you lopsided and
Speaker 1: mangle looking. So you need to sleep off your face.
Speaker 1: And it's very difficult for people who are not used
Speaker 1: to sleeping on their backs. So I came up with
Speaker 1: this concept to create a beauty pillow that you sleep
Speaker 1: on top of your existing pillow. And what it does
Speaker 1: is it's really so simple. It just cradles your neck
Speaker 1: and it keeps your head and face elevated so that
Speaker 1: your face is not touching the pillows. So even if
Speaker 1: you were to sleep on your side, you still have
Speaker 1: a great ample space so that your face is not
Speaker 1: going to get all mushy throughout the night. And let's
Speaker 1: say you get your lashes done, right. I'm sure you're
Speaker 1: Beynestly gets her lashes done once in a while, and like,
Speaker 1: let's say her eye makeup looks so great one day
Speaker 1: and she kind of wants to keep it for the
Speaker 1: next day. You sleep on this beauty pillow and those
Speaker 1: lashes are going to stay in place all night. So
Speaker 1: it's a must for your beauty regiment. I've been told
Speaker 1: many a time by Sarah that she has to have
Speaker 1: special pillows on the bed because of her eyelash extensions,
Speaker 1: and then she saw this thing, so it's a match
Speaker 1: made in heaven. That's why I came up with the
Speaker 1: acronym l l B because it's lips, slashes, brows and
Speaker 1: you can't see it with the glare, lip slashes, brows
Speaker 1: and listen. This is like my first batch of ordered.
Speaker 1: I think the next time, I'm definitely gonna put my
Speaker 1: signature on it so that people can have a little
Speaker 1: piece of me, which I know is their main goal
Speaker 1: of course. So where do people grab the Ultimate Beauty
Speaker 1: Pillow right now? The only place to get it is
Speaker 1: through my husband's practice, Aidan Plastic Surgery. You can either
Speaker 1: get it on their website or just call them up
Speaker 1: and they'll ship one out to you. I'm working on
Speaker 1: my website and we're going to relaunch it, you know,
Speaker 1: hopefully by the summer. You could definitely go to my
Speaker 1: Instagram which is jennifer Aiden. Just no um, underscores or
Speaker 1: anything like that. Jennifer Aiden. Type it as it is
Speaker 1: and then there's a link in my bio and you
Speaker 1: could go to Shop jennifer Aiden. Also follow them and
Speaker 1: as soon as it's available, the updates will be presented.
Speaker 1: So follow Shop jennifer Aiden and you'll get to see
Speaker 1: all the updates on when the pillow will be available.
Speaker 1: So you got a sneak peek, well, I love it, Well,
Speaker 1: I got a sneak peak for about seventeen seconds until
Speaker 1: I under stend you another one because I don't want
Speaker 1: you to get wrinkles. I know, and it's I'm on
Speaker 1: the wrong side of thirty, Jennifer. I need to go
Speaker 1: see your husband at ink. There you go. I mean, listen,
Speaker 1: everything looks pretty good to me, but ask your fiance
Speaker 1: whatever she wants. She's in a botox that out of
Speaker 1: my face at some point. I know it's it's coming soon.
Speaker 1: You grow together. You evolved together as a couple, so
Speaker 1: I love it. Yes, we we grow together. We do
Speaker 1: not age together. We stay the same age forever. Yes,
Speaker 1: and make sure you get better with age instead of
Speaker 1: you know, from, you don't want from. I know that
Speaker 1: there's a limited number of them out there, but did
Speaker 1: you send them to your cast mates? I gave it.
Speaker 1: I gave it all to them off camera. Yes. I
Speaker 1: actually gave it to them on camera this season as well,
Speaker 1: but that clip got cut out. Yeah, you know, listen,
Speaker 1: we got forty two minutes, and we got six women
Speaker 1: that talk a lot and are very opinionated, so me
Speaker 1: giving them my pillow may not have been at the
Speaker 1: top of their list. That's okay, that's what you're for.
Speaker 1: Are well. I'm a huge fan of all the Real Housewives,
Speaker 1: to be honest with you, but you know the iteration
Speaker 1: that you were on the New Jersey one, I feel
Speaker 1: like gets the best one of all the Real Housewives.
Speaker 1: Do you think that too? I mean, of course I'm biased.
Speaker 1: I'm going to always say Jerseys number one in my eyes. Um,
Speaker 1: but I I enjoy all of the franchises. Really. I
Speaker 1: love Beverly Hills, I love Salt Lake City. That's a
Speaker 1: new one that just came on the scene. You know,
Speaker 1: love that very entertaining. Atlanta girls seem like they're bringing
Speaker 1: it this year. So I really loved the whole franchise
Speaker 1: as a whole. I've always been a fan like I was.
Speaker 1: You know, I had five children, I don't know if
Speaker 1: you know that, and all my children are two years apart.
Speaker 1: So literally I was home, barefoot and pregnant watching the show, thinking,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I could do that. People get paid
Speaker 1: to do that. I do that every day. I've often wondered,
Speaker 1: you know, as someone who is a part of one franchise,
Speaker 1: are you ever like if I didn't live in New Jersey,
Speaker 1: I would like to do I don't know the Atlanta
Speaker 1: one or the Beverly Hills, Like have you ever thought
Speaker 1: about that? Like, could you fit yourself in into like
Speaker 1: another one of the shows. I would do Beverly Hills. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was My in laws live in California, so my
Speaker 1: in laws have always since day one, wanted us to
Speaker 1: move out to l A. So if we ever did
Speaker 1: the l A thing, it would be Beverly Hills. The
Speaker 1: show has been going since what two thousand nine, I believe,
Speaker 1: so I only got on three years ago. This is
Speaker 1: my third season, but we are in our season eleven
Speaker 1: right now, so you know, come back eleven years and
Speaker 1: if it's two thousand and nine, I trust you. You
Speaker 1: jumped in in two thousand and eighteen. I imagine that's
Speaker 1: a pretty daunting thing to do, to join a show
Speaker 1: that's already successful with a lot of really big personalities.
Speaker 1: Were you apprehensive to join in? I wasn't apprehensive to
Speaker 1: join in, but it definitely was an interesting transition from
Speaker 1: going as a viewer because aside from me having my favorites,
Speaker 1: I all looked I looked up to all of these
Speaker 1: women as characters on a show. So now I'm no
Speaker 1: longer a viewer. I have to go in and I
Speaker 1: am one of these women, so I have to have
Speaker 1: enough guts to say my opinion rather than be super
Speaker 1: nice just so that they like me. I'm not here
Speaker 1: for them to like me. Hopefully we get along, of
Speaker 1: course that's always the goal. But I'm also here to
Speaker 1: say what comes uh, you know, what pops into my head,
Speaker 1: and I do that very well, sometimes to my detriment.
Speaker 1: It's an interesting transition, to say the least. But you know,
Speaker 1: I was a little rocky at first, and then Teresa
Speaker 1: gave me a lot of good tips and then it
Speaker 1: was smooth sailing. And here I am season number three.
Speaker 1: So I must be doing something right. You know. I've
Speaker 1: done I think seven or eight reality TV shows, but
Speaker 1: I live in a different space. It's just me that
Speaker 1: has to kind of be on screen and be on
Speaker 1: I don't have to involve my family or my friends,
Speaker 1: and I think that that's something that would be tough
Speaker 1: for me to come to terms with. One is like,
Speaker 1: do I want to involve I don't have kids, but
Speaker 1: if I did, do I want to involve my kids
Speaker 1: or my spouse, or my parents or my siblings. What
Speaker 1: is that conversation like for you? Before the show starts
Speaker 1: because inevitably you being on also includes them being on. Well,
Speaker 1: my husband wasn't a big fan, so if you watch
Speaker 1: him my first season, you can actually tell his energy.
Speaker 1: I mean, even though he doesn't say it, I know
Speaker 1: his mannerisms and I know when he's uncomfortable. So he
Speaker 1: wasn't a big fan. Only because there's a lot of
Speaker 1: hate that comes with this platform as much as all
Speaker 1: of the pros. You have to sit there and think
Speaker 1: of the con So. But the thing is with me,
Speaker 1: I've always lived my life pretty forthright, pretty candid. I'm
Speaker 1: the type where if someone compliments my dress, I'll tell
Speaker 1: them where I got it, how much I spent on it,
Speaker 1: who to ask for? Tell them I sent you. That's
Speaker 1: always been me. So if I'm always very truthful with
Speaker 1: my life off camera, then why would it bother me
Speaker 1: if I did it on camera? Um So, for me,
Speaker 1: it was easy. M my husband, it took him a
Speaker 1: while to get his feet with I think my children,
Speaker 1: all of them were really too young to understand, um
Speaker 1: the future about it because for them, you know, these kids,
Speaker 1: they think it's cool to be on TV. And my
Speaker 1: first season, they loved it. They loved filming of course,
Speaker 1: like you know, now that it's my third season, now
Speaker 1: it's a little bit more of a nuisance to them
Speaker 1: also because they see how sometimes things could get spun
Speaker 1: or um, you know, just maybe not shown in the
Speaker 1: best light. So they're not liking it as much as
Speaker 1: day one. My family, as far as my siblings, for
Speaker 1: the most part, they're all very supportive. My parents were supportive,
Speaker 1: um up until the season, because I did share, um,
Speaker 1: something that's going on in my life that it's difficult
Speaker 1: for my parents and they feel extremely embarrassed that this
Speaker 1: is now on a TV show for everybody to say.
Speaker 1: But see, I think that there's something that we can
Speaker 1: learn from this. You know, it's not the end of
Speaker 1: the world knowing that the person that you've been married
Speaker 1: to for fifty years now you can't stand them. I mean,
Speaker 1: they make sitcoms over this stuff. They don't sit here
Speaker 1: and have panic attacks. You know. I think this is
Speaker 1: normal growing pains. When you're in a relationship, you grow
Speaker 1: together and sometimes you end up pickering all the time. Um.
Speaker 1: For my parents, it got a little extreme, and I
Speaker 1: thought the best thing for them was to just separate.
Speaker 1: And the only way for me to do that was
Speaker 1: to have my father come live with me, and then
Speaker 1: the camera started rolling. I am on a show that
Speaker 1: is about my reality, and I never knew that they
Speaker 1: were going to even showcase that story. It's just that
Speaker 1: the producers were filming my everyday life and was like,
Speaker 1: what's your dad do in here every day? And I
Speaker 1: was like, well, he lives with me now, so it's
Speaker 1: like I can't hide him. That's not my style. I
Speaker 1: don't like to hide anything because I'm not embarrassed about it.
Speaker 1: We showcased it and my mom got pissed off. It's
Speaker 1: not a unique story in our country. I think our
Speaker 1: last president slept in a different room than his wife.
Speaker 1: You know, like it's it's a pretty but but I
Speaker 1: understand your parents didn't sign up to do a reality
Speaker 1: television show. You did, so I can see how your
Speaker 1: mother could be like, wait, hold on a second, I
Speaker 1: don't know about this. Does your dad enjoy it? Because
Speaker 1: he's much more in the focal point because well, he's
Speaker 1: with you. My dad has been molded to become the
Speaker 1: type of person that just doesn't complain. He doesn't complain,
Speaker 1: he doesn't want confrontation. He's afraid that anything he says
Speaker 1: is going to be rebutted or looked down upon or
Speaker 1: found upon, because when him and my mother were always
Speaker 1: in the same environment, every time my father would stay something,
Speaker 1: my mom would say, oh, be quiet, John, or you
Speaker 1: don't know what you're talking about, or shut up, and
Speaker 1: these type of behaviors actually embarrassed my father. So because
Speaker 1: my father is so used to it, he doesn't talk
Speaker 1: at all. So I honestly don't even know what he thinks.
Speaker 1: I have no idea, but he never complains, but yet
Speaker 1: he never says anything that's really for it as well.
Speaker 1: So with my dad, I really don't know how he thinks,
Speaker 1: but I don't think he's happy about it, because sometimes
Speaker 1: when I'm watching it on the screen and the scenes
Speaker 1: come on where it's my parents, I noticed that he
Speaker 1: walks out. So for him, it's tough. You know, they're
Speaker 1: very old school. They're off the boat, they're from the
Speaker 1: villages of Turkey on first generation here. They get it
Speaker 1: that this is normal in America, but for them, it's
Speaker 1: not normal. But it's almost like, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1: I'm not here to hide my life. I told my mom,
Speaker 1: you should have been nicer to my dad, so I
Speaker 1: didn't have to separate you, and then none of this
Speaker 1: would have ever happened. They probably would have followed like
Speaker 1: something going on with my children or something, because there's
Speaker 1: always something going on with them. I mean, I have
Speaker 1: five kids on a stay at home mom. I got
Speaker 1: content that will keep you running all day every day.
Speaker 1: Doesn't have to be my dad. Listen, I'm the youngest
Speaker 1: of five, and we used to make a joke that, like,
Speaker 1: our family would be the funniest reality TV show. So
Speaker 1: I totally get it. Yeah, if you you would be
Speaker 1: the funniest if you would be willing to do it
Speaker 1: all on camera. And that's the key, very very true. Okay,
Speaker 1: because my kids will sometimes start doing something and I
Speaker 1: whip out the phone and then they stop. No, we
Speaker 1: don't want it on your Instagram. We don't want I'm like,
Speaker 1: are you kidding? In the TV? Gold Okay, you gotta
Speaker 1: do this on camera. Don't be reserved. Just be yourselves.
Speaker 1: Like when my husband was asking me, like, what do
Speaker 1: you want me to say, I'm like, I want you
Speaker 1: to say what you would say exactly you as you
Speaker 1: would had the camera's not been there. So however you
Speaker 1: do it, just just go it it, I trust you.
Speaker 1: It's when they think of like what they think the
Speaker 1: cameras want to see is I think when they get
Speaker 1: in trouble. I've done enough reality where when people start
Speaker 1: doing that, it seems so inauthentic. It seems like they're
Speaker 1: acting or something. Immediately when that happens, the audience either
Speaker 1: is like I don't like you because you're not being real,
Speaker 1: or in the edit bay they'll cut it because they're like,
Speaker 1: this isn't real at all. Like my first season, I
Speaker 1: actually got a lot of criticism over the way that
Speaker 1: my kids looked. They're like, you don't brush their hair.
Speaker 1: They always look like they rolled out of bed. Listen,
Speaker 1: my kids like elastic waste. They like T shirts and
Speaker 1: elastic waste. The only time I dressed them up like
Speaker 1: all fancy what they call it, is when we go
Speaker 1: to church. When they wear something with a button or
Speaker 1: button down or something poplin. That's when they complain. So
Speaker 1: I'm not going to sit here and dress my kids
Speaker 1: up for the camera because that's not my every day.
Speaker 1: My every day my kids are in athletic shorts, tank tops,
Speaker 1: t shirts, usually something that's Disney or some kind of anime,
Speaker 1: kind of thing, you know, like, my kids are kids.
Speaker 1: How they are every day is how you see them.
Speaker 1: I don't sit here put bows in their hair anymore.
Speaker 1: I tried to when they were younger, but once they
Speaker 1: got old enough and they had their own voice, I
Speaker 1: was like, you know what, let them be kids. Whatever
Speaker 1: I look great. That's a lot of matters. Very true. Listen,
Speaker 1: you're super candid about your life. You've talked about your parents,
Speaker 1: Your brother's storyline was a big one. Getting work done
Speaker 1: has been a big kind of storyline for you on
Speaker 1: camera and on your social media. What has been the
Speaker 1: hardest to kind of show the world? And two is
Speaker 1: there anything that you wouldn't show the world? The thing
Speaker 1: that I would say was the hardest showing the world
Speaker 1: was probably my parents situation what's been going on right now,
Speaker 1: only because I've gotten the most like heat from my parents,
Speaker 1: really my mother from that. The repercussions of me showcasing
Speaker 1: that on the show now has now caused a big
Speaker 1: gap in my mother and I his relationships. So we're
Speaker 1: not speaking right now and we haven't spoken since January.
Speaker 1: And it actually wasn't It was funny because like once
Speaker 1: the show wrapped, she had a lot of loose ends
Speaker 1: in her house that she needed me. She needed my
Speaker 1: help to tie up. And when I say help, I
Speaker 1: don't mean financially, I mean just the logistics of connecting
Speaker 1: her with people, making people go there, finishing the jobs
Speaker 1: of her house, like putting up light fixtures, all these things.
Speaker 1: So we had tied up a lot of those loose
Speaker 1: ends once we had wrapped filming, which was great. My
Speaker 1: mom had forgot about what she was mad at. We
Speaker 1: were back to normal, hanging out all the time. And
Speaker 1: then in January, the trailer had come out and she
Speaker 1: was at my house where my dad lives, and she
Speaker 1: was having one of her bickering fights with my dad,
Speaker 1: you know, and she kind of she kind of goes
Speaker 1: at him a lot, and like I said, he doesn't
Speaker 1: like confrontation. He walks away, and she just kept going
Speaker 1: at him, and of course, me that I can't keep
Speaker 1: my mouth shut, walk in and I go, well, you
Speaker 1: know what's going on? And she started complaining about something
Speaker 1: that he did, and I said, you know what, well,
Speaker 1: he doesn't live with you anymore, so you know, a
Speaker 1: good thing. You don't have to worry about it. And
Speaker 1: she just turned around and she was just like, well,
Speaker 1: of course he doesn't live with me. This is all
Speaker 1: your faults anyway, This is all you're doing. Like, if
Speaker 1: he was with me, none of this would happen. And
Speaker 1: I'm like, if he was with you, you would be
Speaker 1: doing all of this to him there in that house,
Speaker 1: and he would have nobody to protect him. So we
Speaker 1: had a big, all out role. She's thinking that I
Speaker 1: always side with him, but she doesn't see that I'm
Speaker 1: just protecting whoever happens to be weaker in the confrontation.
Speaker 1: And just coincidentally, lately, it's always been my dad on
Speaker 1: the other end of the beating stick. And it's like,
Speaker 1: I tell my mom, I would never or let you
Speaker 1: stay with somebody who treated you that way, you know,
Speaker 1: So why does it matter that it's a woman doing
Speaker 1: it to a man. She's trying to tell me that
Speaker 1: this is her marriage and this is how all married
Speaker 1: couples are, and I get it, But there comes a
Speaker 1: certain point where you just have to be like enough, Like,
Speaker 1: my father is ten years older than my mom. I
Speaker 1: don't know how much longer he's got to live. Can't
Speaker 1: we just leave the rest of his years in peace
Speaker 1: and harmony? Like, is it really that deep that you
Speaker 1: you have to sit here and punish him and crucify him.
Speaker 1: They didn't. He didn't buy you flowers twenty years ago.
Speaker 1: I get it. It's terrible. You know, he sucks. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying he's great, but right now, as a human being,
Speaker 1: he is an elderly old man and he needs love
Speaker 1: and affection, not somebody throwing in his face all the
Speaker 1: things that he did wrong in all his life. I'm
Speaker 1: sure he thinks about that every single night. We don't
Speaker 1: need to rub salt into the wound, you know. So
Speaker 1: like that's my thing. I'm always trying to protect the
Speaker 1: weaker person always, and I'm always trying to stand up
Speaker 1: for what I believe is right. I don't want to
Speaker 1: diminish what my mom feels, because at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, she does feel that my father emotionally abused
Speaker 1: her throughout their marriage. And regardless if I believe it's
Speaker 1: if it's true or not, which I don't, I can't
Speaker 1: tell my mother that her feelings are not valid. See,
Speaker 1: my husband's a doctor, and the one thing that he
Speaker 1: always tells me that you can't argue with is people's feelings.
Speaker 1: All I feel that you were mean to me. You
Speaker 1: may not have been mean, but if that person says
Speaker 1: that they feel that you were, you've got to acknowledge that,
Speaker 1: and you've got to be like, Okay, I I may
Speaker 1: not agree with it, but I understand now why you
Speaker 1: are behaving this way. So I have to validate her
Speaker 1: feelings because we all have feelings. Well, so make sure
Speaker 1: you listen to your fiance when she tells you about
Speaker 1: her feelings, because if she says that she feels a
Speaker 1: certain way, no matter what you say, your point is moot.
Speaker 1: I feel that you're doing the right thing, and I'll
Speaker 1: tell you why. One. I think that time heals all wounds.
Speaker 1: Um and too. I come from a very big family
Speaker 1: that has a lot of big personalities, and I think
Speaker 1: one of the flaws in my family is is that
Speaker 1: we generally will sweep things under the rug or pretend
Speaker 1: like that nothing's wrong, and that doesn't help anything. That
Speaker 1: actually perpetuates and has lets the wound fester even longer.
Speaker 1: So I think that what you're doing is the right thing,
Speaker 1: even if people can't see that or appreciate it. So
Speaker 1: just know that I think you're doing the right thing,
Speaker 1: and that's really Jennifer, that's all that matters. If the
Speaker 1: rest of you who don't agree with me, you can
Speaker 1: go scratch um. I also listen, it's not easy to
Speaker 1: show my life. It's not it's a gift. It's a gift.
Speaker 1: Not a everybody can handle it. Not everybody can handle
Speaker 1: the backlash, not everybody can handle the criticism. But I
Speaker 1: do it. I do it because it's part of who
Speaker 1: I am and I've always been that way. So I
Speaker 1: don't turn it on for the cameras. The cameras get
Speaker 1: me because I'm just always turned on. I don't know
Speaker 1: what that means, but I like it. That means that
Speaker 1: I'm always like, like, this is me, Like when you
Speaker 1: see me off camera, you're gonna see me always on.
Speaker 1: People are like, oh, like when they meet me, they'll
Speaker 1: they'll say, you're just like you are on TV. And
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, the TV catches me just as I am.
Speaker 1: So that's the difference. I don't amp it up for
Speaker 1: the cameras. I'm always kikiing up, I'm always high five
Speaker 1: and with someone I'm always saying hey, it's not just
Speaker 1: for the cameras, Like what you see is my everyday reality.
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on Jackie's husband. I think they're solid.
Speaker 1: I think they have a solid relationship. I did not
Speaker 1: believe that rumor one bit um, But I do believe
Speaker 1: that if a rumor is out, I personally would like
Speaker 1: to know. I agree he's a solid guy. They have
Speaker 1: a solid relationship. Yeah, do you pay your kids for
Speaker 1: being on screen? I don't pay them. I bribe them
Speaker 1: with trips to target. They love trips to target. Like
Speaker 1: when we were at Jackie's birthday party. Okay, so like, okay,
Speaker 1: we'll bring Jackie's birthday party, and it was last season,
Speaker 1: and everybody thought that I was like mad about the food, which,
Speaker 1: of course, like I was, you know, I was just
Speaker 1: surprised about the food. But really there was no activity.
Speaker 1: The activity was playing basketball on a driveway. And my
Speaker 1: boys are not athletic, their video game boys. So and
Speaker 1: I take them to a birthday. Not to mention, I
Speaker 1: brought my six year old who was wearing high heels,
Speaker 1: so she was not expecting to play basketball. And we're
Speaker 1: like filming, and my kids, obviously they were out within
Speaker 1: two seconds because they're not athletic, and they're both on
Speaker 1: the sidelines and they're coming to me and we're mikes
Speaker 1: and they're mics and their life. This party is so boring,
Speaker 1: there's nothing to do. We want to leave and I
Speaker 1: have to film, right, So like we gotta stay here
Speaker 1: for three more hours. And I'm just like, please, are
Speaker 1: gonna embarrass me. They're already gonna say I spoil my children,
Speaker 1: So play, just play the goddamn game. And they're like
Speaker 1: in the corner and they're like, you better take us
Speaker 1: to Target. I'm like, I promise, I promised after this,
Speaker 1: if you just if you just stay and don't complain
Speaker 1: and don't make me look like this person who constantly
Speaker 1: spoils their children, I will take you to Target and
Speaker 1: spoil you, guys. But when you're a parent, you'll see
Speaker 1: you'll bribe them to You'll bribe them to eat veggies.
Speaker 1: You'll bribe them to try something, You'll bribe them to
Speaker 1: wear something. I mean, listen, a parents gotta do what
Speaker 1: a parents gotta do. Don't talk a good game until
Speaker 1: you have kids of your own. No, I applaud you. Actually,
Speaker 1: I think it's uh, that's a thrifty bribe. I feel
Speaker 1: like if my kids would be like, we're going to
Speaker 1: Rodeo drive and I'm like, and you know what, I'll
Speaker 1: also do or sometimes I'll tell them I'll do this
Speaker 1: to them. I tricked them with this before. I'll be like,
Speaker 1: you know what, if you just do what I want,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take you to the store and you can
Speaker 1: each buy five things. And they look at us like
Speaker 1: why do they look at me? And they're like, Mommy,
Speaker 1: really we can buy five pinky promise. And now I
Speaker 1: always stick with my word because if I don't, then
Speaker 1: they're not going to trust me the next time I
Speaker 1: say it. So what do I do? Pack them in
Speaker 1: and we go to the dollar store and then they're like, mommy,
Speaker 1: you tricked us, Like no, I did it five things.
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Speaker 1: gonna say a quick break and we come back. We're
Speaker 1: gonna pivot over to my portion of the show. I
Speaker 1: don't know if anyone told you, but I like origin stories.
Speaker 1: I like finding out how where people came from. And
Speaker 1: how the hell they got to where they are and
Speaker 1: became so successful. So when we come back, are you
Speaker 1: down to shine a little light as to what the
Speaker 1: hell you were doing before you joined Real Housewives of
Speaker 1: New Jersey? Sure can. I don't know how interesting it's
Speaker 1: gonna be, but I'll try to dig around. We're right
Speaker 1: back with Jennifer Aiden of Real Housewives of New Jersey.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Wells Cast. Very excited to have
Speaker 1: Jennifer Aiden from Real Housewives of New Jersey on this show.
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Speaker 1: I'm fascinated to find out your origin story, because you
Speaker 1: know we touched on it leading up to this portion
Speaker 1: of the show that you are effectively a first generation
Speaker 1: uh Turkish woman. Um So let's go back to the beginning.
Speaker 1: Where did you come from? Where were you born? So
Speaker 1: I was born in Queens, New York, and when I
Speaker 1: was two years old is when we moved to Long Island,
Speaker 1: which is where I grew up, and I have I'm
Speaker 1: one of four were two boys, two girls. My dad
Speaker 1: came here from Turkey with nothing but a craft. He
Speaker 1: was a jeweler and he was easily sponsored because he
Speaker 1: made jewelry so well. And the only thing, probably the
Speaker 1: only problem with that is that he worked a lot.
Speaker 1: So sometime when I was growing up, my mom found
Speaker 1: a cute little um jewelry exchange on Long Island and
Speaker 1: we got a jewelry store. And that was our first
Speaker 1: retail space ever that my mom actually opened for our family.
Speaker 1: It was only opened four days a week, and we
Speaker 1: grew up having to work at the jewelry store. That's
Speaker 1: what we had to do. And it's funny because once
Speaker 1: I was like thirteen fourteen, I wanted to start getting paid,
Speaker 1: but my father would always be like, I don't charge
Speaker 1: you to live in my house, why are you going
Speaker 1: to charge me to work in my store? So he
Speaker 1: wouldn't pay me, So I still had no money. And
Speaker 1: then all my friends were like, oh, you have an
Speaker 1: in ground pool, you have a nice colonial house, your
Speaker 1: father has in Mercedes, but you never have any money.
Speaker 1: And I was like, my parents have money, it's me
Speaker 1: that's broke, like my dad us see. And then once
Speaker 1: I got to high school, he gave me twenty dollars
Speaker 1: a week for lunch. And that should be okay because
Speaker 1: that's usually like two bucks a day. But you know,
Speaker 1: if we went out to lunch with some seniors on
Speaker 1: Monday Tuesday, by Wednesday, I didn't have any money, and
Speaker 1: I would go to my dad and I'd be like, Daddy,
Speaker 1: I spent all my twenty dollars and he'd be like,
Speaker 1: that's not my problem. So I would like go to
Speaker 1: school and and and be hungry. And so I was
Speaker 1: a grub. I was a school grub. Yes, if you
Speaker 1: remember me getting off the line, thank you have any change?
Speaker 1: Do you have any change? Do any change? That was me, Yes,
Speaker 1: that was me, do you have any change? And until
Speaker 1: I grubbed enough money for a lunch, i'd get that
Speaker 1: school lunch. So I've always had somewhat of a hustle
Speaker 1: in me. Um. You know, my first Halloween that I
Speaker 1: ever experienced in America. Was very traumatizing because my mom
Speaker 1: spent me, sent me to school with no costume, and
Speaker 1: nobody everyone had to walk in the parade parade with
Speaker 1: a buddy, but nobody wanted to be my buddy because
Speaker 1: I didn't have a costume. And I was crying because
Speaker 1: I didn't have a costume. And even though I didn't
Speaker 1: understand what this holiday was. And then my teacher made
Speaker 1: me a pumpkin with with two pieces of orange oak
Speaker 1: tag paper and she made me a green little hat,
Speaker 1: and I was a pumpkin, folks. I was very proud
Speaker 1: of that pumpkin. Yes, I was happy that I finally
Speaker 1: had a costume in the end, even though it was handmade.
Speaker 1: And then I, you know, when I got married to
Speaker 1: my husband, he's also from the same community, so we're
Speaker 1: from Turkey, but I'm actually Syrian Orthodox. It's confusing because
Speaker 1: it's the culture as well as a religion, and um,
Speaker 1: he's from the same church. Technically, my mom was trying
Speaker 1: to marry me off. She was trying to like get
Speaker 1: guys to ask me to marry them, and they would
Speaker 1: come to the house. I would sit there prim and proper.
Speaker 1: I would serve coffee, smile, and then they would leave
Speaker 1: and my mom would be like, so, what do you
Speaker 1: think And I'd be like, oh, no, I can't. I
Speaker 1: can't even do that for the rest of my life.
Speaker 1: You know, that's a long time. And my mom would
Speaker 1: sit there and she'd be like, what do you want?
Speaker 1: You want the club guy, club guy? No, I didn't
Speaker 1: want a club guy because the club guy was not
Speaker 1: going to treat me the way that I needed to
Speaker 1: be treated. And when I met my husband, you know,
Speaker 1: he was going to school for medicine, so he was
Speaker 1: not by any means anything that he is now. But gosh,
Speaker 1: he was so hot. He was so hot when I
Speaker 1: met him, Like at that point, after I found out
Speaker 1: it was adopted, the doctor was just like an added
Speaker 1: luxury because he had all the key finds that my
Speaker 1: mom always wanted. My mom always wanted somebody that was tall.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter how attractive you are in my culture.
Speaker 1: But if you're tall, if you're so tall, did you
Speaker 1: see Yeah, he looks like killer clowns from out of space,
Speaker 1: but he's tall. Yeah, that's a no. That's a hard
Speaker 1: note for me. So when I met my husband at
Speaker 1: a wedding and I saw him. I was just so
Speaker 1: happy that there was actually a good looking one that
Speaker 1: I was attracted to that I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: he's the one that I want. And then when I
Speaker 1: found out he was a doctor training to be like
Speaker 1: that just made it all better. But that wasn't even
Speaker 1: the initial concept. It was really just pure physical attraction.
Speaker 1: No shame in my game. Yeah, I had to be
Speaker 1: attracted to the person if I'm going to be married
Speaker 1: to him, don't you think ye. My husband and I met,
Speaker 1: we got engaged right away. I met him Sunday before
Speaker 1: Labor Day. I got married Sunday before Labor Day one
Speaker 1: year to the day, I had six hundred people at
Speaker 1: my wedding, and my wedding in our culture, the man
Speaker 1: pays for the wedding, just so you know, girls, so
Speaker 1: get your Syrian Orthodox men ladies here me we're are
Speaker 1: the man case for the wedding. Six hundred people I
Speaker 1: had um at the West Mountain Country Club. It was
Speaker 1: like a fairytale wedding. I got everything I wanted. And
Speaker 1: I'm always about manifesting. I'm always about positive energy. And
Speaker 1: even when my husband was finished with his residency, we
Speaker 1: lived in Michigan. I lived in Michigan when it's where
Speaker 1: he did his fellowship for two years. And when we
Speaker 1: were done, it was like, where are we going to go?
Speaker 1: East coast? West coast because his family's West coast and
Speaker 1: my parents were East coast, and I just thought that
Speaker 1: my Syrian Orthodox community is very strong in New Jersey.
Speaker 1: So I really wanted my kids to grow up in
Speaker 1: the culture. So I was like, I want to move
Speaker 1: to Jersey. And you know, Bill would always look at me.
Speaker 1: He'd be like, listen, just so you know, we're not
Speaker 1: going to be like that rich you know, because at
Speaker 1: the time he was doing general surgery and he's like,
Speaker 1: you know, And I said, I was like, listen, anything
Speaker 1: that you tell me, it's going to go in this
Speaker 1: year and out the other. I said, because I believe
Speaker 1: in you. I told my husband, and all the things
Speaker 1: that you think you're not going to accomplish, I know
Speaker 1: you're already there. So it's okay. You could tell me
Speaker 1: that we're not going to get it like that, We're
Speaker 1: not going to have it like that. That's okay. You
Speaker 1: believe that, and I'll believe what I believe. And hence
Speaker 1: here we are now in the taj Mahala Paramus Queen
Speaker 1: of Thrones and five children. Not too savvy? Was it
Speaker 1: love at first sight? How did that meeting at that
Speaker 1: wedding go? It's funny because like that wedding, it was
Speaker 1: his brother's wedding and he was the best man at
Speaker 1: that wedding and it was in California, and my parents
Speaker 1: trecked me all the way to California for this wedding
Speaker 1: because there was another guy who was asking for my
Speaker 1: hand and he was calling me all the time, and
Speaker 1: my mother said that he owned like five gas stations
Speaker 1: and was like this big jeweler. And I didn't even
Speaker 1: care because I wasn't attracted to him at all. It's
Speaker 1: very very sweet, Um, just not my type. And I
Speaker 1: went to this wedding anyway because I had a girlfriend
Speaker 1: who lived out in l a. And my girlfriend was like,
Speaker 1: remember I'm broke at this point. My my girlfriend was like,
Speaker 1: if your parents are willing to pay for your trips
Speaker 1: to come to Cali, just come and we'll hang out.
Speaker 1: So I was like, oh, but they want me to
Speaker 1: marry this guy and there's just no way I can
Speaker 1: even kiss him, Like no, whay? I don't care all
Speaker 1: the money in the world. I can't. I just can't.
Speaker 1: I'm not one of those girls. I went to this
Speaker 1: wedding and when I saw my husband, I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god. My aunt was next to me, and
Speaker 1: my aunt like shrugged me. She's like shrugging my shoulders, like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, you want handsome. He's handsome. And my
Speaker 1: mother turned around. I remember my mother turned around and
Speaker 1: she goes, forget it. That village they only married cousins.
Speaker 1: And I turned around. I was like, did I stay
Speaker 1: one gonna mary him? I didn't even stay wanted to
Speaker 1: marry him. I mean, he has to want to marry me.
Speaker 1: I don't go to anybody because, like I was like,
Speaker 1: all up in my head back then, we've seen nothing
Speaker 1: has change. Um. And then he asked my brother. He
Speaker 1: welcomed my brother right because they knew each other from
Speaker 1: the jewelry business. He said, welcome, thank you for coming
Speaker 1: to l A. He said hello to me. I was
Speaker 1: trying to be charming, but like nonchalant, because you know,
Speaker 1: you can't seem too thirsty. Well, if that's a huge
Speaker 1: turn off to a good looking guy when a pretty
Speaker 1: girl looks thirsty. Now, he's got to come to me,
Speaker 1: so you gotta like hang the bait just a little
Speaker 1: enough for him to come. And then I pulled away.
Speaker 1: And that's what I did. I played this little cat
Speaker 1: and mouse game with him all night. And then the
Speaker 1: very next day, the guy who wanted to marry me,
Speaker 1: he was calling my brother wanting to take us out
Speaker 1: to dinner that night, and my brother's like, he keeps
Speaker 1: blowing up my phone. What should I do? I was like,
Speaker 1: don't answer, tell him, tell him I I had to leave,
Speaker 1: tell him no, like make up some excuse. And and
Speaker 1: he was like, oh, well, that guy Bill called and
Speaker 1: they're going to the cheesecake factory in Glendale. Would you
Speaker 1: want to do that? I was like, I'll do that's
Speaker 1: just I just need some time to get ready. Give
Speaker 1: me like two hours. So I guess gold decked out
Speaker 1: old deck Dad. And I'm like thinking in my head
Speaker 1: as we're driving to the cheesecake factory in Glendale, I'm thinking, no, Pasadena, sorry,
Speaker 1: Pasadena Atlas And I'm thinking like, can I live in
Speaker 1: l A? Because you know, when you met you have
Speaker 1: to move to where the guy is in our culture?
Speaker 1: Can I live in l A? Could I really live here.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I could live here. What's wrong with living here?
Speaker 1: And it's so funny because the guy who wanted to
Speaker 1: marry me, who lived in l A. I told my
Speaker 1: mom up and down, there's no way I'm moving to
Speaker 1: l A. There's no way I'm going to live there.
Speaker 1: And meanwhile, all of a sudden, it's the hot doctor
Speaker 1: from the wedding and maybe I can live here. So
Speaker 1: when we got there, you know again I didn't know.
Speaker 1: I didn't know is he interested? Is he not interested?
Speaker 1: I gotta play it cool. And then as we were leaving,
Speaker 1: he whispered in my ear, oh no, wait. Before when
Speaker 1: we were on our way, when our way we got
Speaker 1: lost and my husband my brother was like, can you
Speaker 1: call his number from my phone? And I saw that
Speaker 1: his number was nine one seven, which is a New
Speaker 1: York City area code. So I said, why is his
Speaker 1: number nine one seven? And he's like, Jim, you didn't
Speaker 1: know he's a doctor at St. Vincent's. I was like, yes, yes, honey,
Speaker 1: this is the one. I cannot let this one go.
Speaker 1: So at the end of the night, he whispered in
Speaker 1: my ear, call me when you get back to New
Speaker 1: York and we can go out, and I was like,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of just nodded yes, and then I'm like,
Speaker 1: now I have to call him. I don't call guys.
Speaker 1: Guys have to call me. What am I gonna do?
Speaker 1: So as soon as we got to New York, I
Speaker 1: start six seven my number, which, for those of you
Speaker 1: who don't know, that will block your number. So I
Speaker 1: blocked my number so you couldn't see because I knew
Speaker 1: he wouldn't answer. I left a message with my number
Speaker 1: and then the rest there you know how it goes rove.
Speaker 1: Once he had my number, he had to come to me,
Speaker 1: and you know what, it worked. It worked. We were
Speaker 1: on the phone for seven weeks before he asked me
Speaker 1: out on a date. There was at one point that
Speaker 1: I even thought he was gay, because I was like,
Speaker 1: what the has taken him so long to ask me out? Like,
Speaker 1: but I knew that he couldn't ask me out without
Speaker 1: serious intentions, because in my culture, when you date without
Speaker 1: serious intentions, I risk shaming my family name because let's
Speaker 1: say he doesn't put a ring on it, and then
Speaker 1: let's say the next guy here's that I went out
Speaker 1: with him without serious intentions. That new guy's mother is
Speaker 1: going to d me a slot and she's gonna be like,
Speaker 1: oh no, she's tainted. She's gone out with this that
Speaker 1: the other without serious intentions. Oh no, you must stay
Speaker 1: away from her. And that's how it was in my time.
Speaker 1: And we have evolved since then, but it still a
Speaker 1: lot of like just so you know, a lot of
Speaker 1: the people from our community, the young Inns that are
Speaker 1: not married yet, they're not on social media that much.
Speaker 1: They don't let people know what they're doing. No, it
Speaker 1: wasn't until after I got married that I didn't give
Speaker 1: a what people knew about me because at that point
Speaker 1: there's no refunds. That's an amazing story. Story. It's a
Speaker 1: quite of story, yep, I guess. Then the last piece
Speaker 1: the puzzle is, you get married to Bill, you have
Speaker 1: five kids, how do you get looped into real housewives?
Speaker 1: You know, they really do do it like a casting call.
Speaker 1: You really do get an email and everybody just it'll say,
Speaker 1: like email there to whoever. You know. We also give
Speaker 1: recommendations as housewives. And when I had applied, I realized
Speaker 1: that my husband knew Dolores. Since Dolores knew me or
Speaker 1: knew me through my husband, they asked her about me.
Speaker 1: They did like a test shooting to see how I
Speaker 1: vibed with her. I mean, listen, uh, you know I
Speaker 1: could pull a conversation out of it. Really, you can
Speaker 1: give me anybody. I mean, there are some meetings that
Speaker 1: my husband purposely takes me to because if he can't
Speaker 1: start up a conversation with somebody, he knows I'm going
Speaker 1: to find something to talk about or make them laugh
Speaker 1: or crack some silly joke or whatever. Um. So obviously
Speaker 1: we vibed really well, and Dolores brought me in as
Speaker 1: her girlfriend on the show, and three years, I'm still
Speaker 1: here to talk about it. Listen, I get it. It
Speaker 1: makes total sense. The positive energy that just exudes from
Speaker 1: you is so contagious, so always like that. I have
Speaker 1: found it's really really hard to convey on reality TV,
Speaker 1: just because there's just so much editing going on. And
Speaker 1: that's why I love these podcasts. I really love an
Speaker 1: opportunity to talk to people one on one. I love
Speaker 1: meeting the fans. Like even when I'm out and someone
Speaker 1: comes to me and they're tiptoeing by me, I always
Speaker 1: want to make sure that I make them feel valid, right,
Speaker 1: because I'm sure it's for them. They're like, oh, I
Speaker 1: don't want to bob her. What if she's going to
Speaker 1: be mean. I'm not going to be mean. If you
Speaker 1: ask me for a picture, I will never say no
Speaker 1: to a picture. I will ask you your name, I
Speaker 1: will make eye contact. You know, I'm not that bougie.
Speaker 1: As as much as they may edit me to be
Speaker 1: some kind of snob, I'm not. I love everybody. I love, love,
Speaker 1: love everybody, And if they don't like me, that's that's okay,
Speaker 1: because you know what I like me, that's okay. If
Speaker 1: you don't like me. You know what I say to that.
Speaker 1: You can't win them all. You can't. You just gotta
Speaker 1: keep it moving. You're such a positive force. You know
Speaker 1: a lot of people listen to this podcast as and
Speaker 1: use it as kind of like a blueprint for success.
Speaker 1: Do you have a credo or is there something that
Speaker 1: you live by to create such positive energy and success
Speaker 1: in your life. I always tell myself that the lie
Speaker 1: is hard to remember. If you stick with the truth,
Speaker 1: then your story will always be the same. And I
Speaker 1: rather my story be the same than me make myself
Speaker 1: look like an asshole, because as I had to lie
Speaker 1: or I felt like I had to fidge on something like,
Speaker 1: that's not my vibe. You know, if I tell somebody
Speaker 1: my age and I keep lying about it, then they
Speaker 1: may talk to each other's sad. But she told me
Speaker 1: forty one, Well she told me thirty nine. And the
Speaker 1: lie is really, you know, easy to forget. So I
Speaker 1: feel like the truth is the best um source of
Speaker 1: my positivity. Just be honest, you know, be honest. Tell
Speaker 1: people how you feel. I feel like there's a way
Speaker 1: that you can deliver the way that you want to
Speaker 1: say something without hurting somebody's feelings. And and if I
Speaker 1: do hurt your feelings, that of course that wasn't my intention.
Speaker 1: Tell me about it, and if I care enough, I'll apologize,
Speaker 1: and if I don't, then I'll just say sorry, not sorry.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. I feel my parents an anniversary party
Speaker 1: I think was like thirty five years thirty five years
Speaker 1: married or something, and it was a surprise anniversary party,
Speaker 1: and my mom looked so pissed when she walked in,
Speaker 1: and it was it was that Leonards of Great Neck, Okay,
Speaker 1: a long island, and I just didn't understand why she
Speaker 1: was so piste off. And she's doing that first dance
Speaker 1: with my dad. And then finally I get her into
Speaker 1: the bridal. Sweet, I'm like, what's the matter, You're not surprised,
Speaker 1: and she's like, everybody's going to know your brother's age
Speaker 1: and you're still not married. She's like, everyone's gonna know
Speaker 1: that he's like thirty four and not married. I was like,
Speaker 1: I think everybody kind of knows that already, Like we
Speaker 1: all know that, you know, but she's been telling everybody's
Speaker 1: twenty nine for the past five years. Now. It's like, oop,
Speaker 1: my bad. The lie is hard to remember. Stick with
Speaker 1: the truth. I'm running out of time with you before
Speaker 1: I let you go. Do you have some time for
Speaker 1: some rapid fire questions? Let's go, all right, rapid fire
Speaker 1: questions with Jennifer Aiden of Real Housewives of New Jersey.
Speaker 1: First one, would you rather be rich and sad or
Speaker 1: poor and happy and sad? Night in or night out?
Speaker 1: Night out? What job would you be terrible at? Something
Speaker 1: that has to do with me being in an office?
Speaker 1: Favorite pizza topic, just plain cheese. Who was your first kiss,
Speaker 1: Mike Thomas? Usually people don't remember, and so I'm very
Speaker 1: proud of you. Remember it was It was It was
Speaker 1: a big deal. I waited. I waited. I'm not gonna say,
Speaker 1: but I waited more than my friends. It was a
Speaker 1: big deal. I mean it wasn't that great. I hope
Speaker 1: Mike Thomas doesn't listen to this show. What was the
Speaker 1: first conci every went to Motley Crewe? Nice? First car
Speaker 1: you ever owned? Pantiac's Sunfire. Who is your childhood hero?
Speaker 1: Fred Savage? I had Winnie Cooper on last week. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, I was obsessed with Fred Savage. I thought
Speaker 1: he was just like the good old boy next door
Speaker 1: and I was like, just love me one day. Fred Savage. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was a long time ago. Would your mother have
Speaker 1: approved Fred Savage to court you? No, No, because he
Speaker 1: wasn't Syrian Orthodox. No, no one's per picked. I guess
Speaker 1: Fred had to be Syrian Orthodox from my church, from
Speaker 1: my mother to approve you. That was the first record
Speaker 1: CD you owned? Definitely something freestyle, which is a form
Speaker 1: of music that is not popular in l A like
Speaker 1: Cynthia Johnny. Oh, it's more of a New York, New
Speaker 1: Jersey thing. But it's freestyle because my brother was a DJ.
Speaker 1: My brother used to dj like all the high school dances,
Speaker 1: and freestyle was my favorite. So definitely one of his freestyle.
Speaker 1: What's the weirdest superstition that you have? Um, don't sleep
Speaker 1: with your closet door open, because then it leaves people
Speaker 1: talking about you. Really Yeah. And lastly, what's one beauty
Speaker 1: product that everyone absolutely needs? My beauty flag, Flag Plug,
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Speaker 1: find it? Oh? Aidan Plastic Surgery as of right now,
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Speaker 1: People want to follow you on social media, where do
Speaker 1: they need to go? Jennifer Aiden, No Space, no Underscore,
Speaker 1: A Y d I N Real Houseblaves of New Jersey's
Speaker 1: on Wednesday's on Bravo. Jennifer Absolutely wonderful talking with you.
Speaker 1: You are such a bright light. You've brightened my day,
Speaker 1: which is not easy to do. So thank you for
Speaker 1: being on the show. Go on The Queen of Jennifer Aiden.
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