WEBVTT - Some Time With... Rhonda Shear! (Part 1) 0:00:18.440 --> 0:00:20.960 We have a very special guest on the podcast today. 0:00:21.320 --> 0:00:24.239 You're sure to recognize her from the season three episode 0:00:24.480 --> 0:00:27.880 Those better not be the days where she plays adult 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:32.479 Kimmy Gibbler. Rhonda Sheer, Ronda Sheher is with us today. 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:35.880 She is an actress, an entrepreneur, a former beauty queen, 0:00:36.080 --> 0:00:39.440 a stand up comedian, and author of her memoir Up 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:42.120 All Night. We can't wait to talk to her about 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:44.480 her time on Full House, plus all of the other 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:47.800 amazing things that she's accomplished in her career, which is 0:00:47.880 --> 0:00:51.400 just absolutely mind blowing. Everyone, please put your hands together 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:52.600 for Ronda. 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:54.800 Welcome to the show. We are so happy to have 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:57.000 her here. I'm so glad you agreed to this. 0:00:57.240 --> 0:00:59.959 Oh I followed you around when you were a little girl. 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:06.480 It's been thirty thirty what thirty six years? Thirty seven years? 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:08.240 Amazing? 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:11.000 So how old were you when I was trying to 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:12.800 think how old you are in that episode? I mean, 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:17.000 I remember meeting your mom and oh yeah, my whole 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:20.399 week was following you around to get your mannerisms. 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:22.760 I mean, all of us. It was so great. 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:26.080 I remember that I was so I was thirteen during 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:28.760 that episode. Jody must have been what seven. 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:31.040 Ish, Yeah, I think it was about seven, Yeah. 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:34.640 About seven, And I remember, yeah, the three or four 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:37.600 adult versions of us working with us, trying to, like 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:40.440 you said, get the lines down, the intonation, the mannerism. 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:42.319 Right, yeah, oh, I remember that. 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:46.440 And I've done in person asia impressions and people through 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:49.120 the years in my stand up in comedy, but not 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:50.160 that I'm precious, but you. 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:51.640 Know, just a little business pieces. But it was all 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:55.480 older people, but not you know, a young lady or child. 0:01:57.120 --> 0:01:59.160 It was fun and old. 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:01.480 Jeff Franklin asked me he was a friend back in 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:03.240 the day, and I went out with them a couple 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:05.000 of times, like everybody else in Hollywood. 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:10.959 That did not help my career. I loved Jeff. 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:14.520 I loved you too. We all love Jeff. He just 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:16.200 got engage. Congratulations, Jeff. 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:18.840 He was a gentleman. I love him. He was great, 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:21.160 my kid, brilliant. And I have a book. 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:26.799 That your memoir, Ronie and the inside and I will 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:29.840 love the testimonial. Andrea, it was I passed Rona to 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:31.960 play Kimmy Gibler in Full House because I thought she 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:33.720 was hilarious and headed for greatness. 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:34.359 I was right. 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:38.680 Jeffry, creator Full House, and Full House. 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:43.680 Good to do that. He was really sweet. So you see, 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:46.720 you've been part of my life too, So that's what 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:47.880 makes me so happy. 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:50.640 With all those sitcoms and guest shows that I did 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:54.800 through the eighties and nineties, definitely Full House was the 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:58.160 one that people remember and they talk about, Oh, I 0:02:58.280 --> 0:03:02.560 remember that episode with the kids grown up. So it's 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:04.480 really funny to get a couple of things I've done 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:07.440 that stand out over everything else. I had one line 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:10.840 in Spaceballs, then with you guys, and of course you 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:13.680 know other shows have done but that they people remember, 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:17.760 and when the residuals come instead of recents like most 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:18.560 of my shows. 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:21.160 I think it's like around eight to ten dollars, so right. 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:23.840 Sometimes it's sometimes it's a nice little surprise. Sometimes you 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:27.560 might be able to buy yourself a coffee now that 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:30.919 ball are right there, not anyone else but you, right right, 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:33.320 only if it's like just a just a black brewed 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:34.480 coffee these days. 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:35.960 But yeah, but I have. 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:38.440 To congratulate you guys, because I know you probably didn't 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:40.680 know that at your tender young age is but to 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:44.800 be on a show that is truly part of pop 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:47.640 culture and American history, much like when I grew up 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:50.840 in I would before. I mean, I watched the reruns 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:53.440 of Lucy. But that's what you guys are like, is iconic? 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:54.960 Is I love Lucy? 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:58.480 And then of course growing up with Barbara Eden. 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:00.320 When I met Barbia from My Dream of GI, I 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:02.720 almost fainted and I interviewed her many times but she 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:03.520 was so sweet. 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:05.640 But you all, I mean, that's the kind show. 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:08.200 I'm sitting here with two young ladies that I work 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:10.160 with because I'm in another industry. 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:11.400 Give it back in acting though. 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:14.360 Yeah. Yeah, they're like, oh my gosh, I grew up 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:16.560 with them I loved and I'm saying. 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:22.080 Oh, it's I mean, it really is crazy to think, 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:25.280 like how much of an impact. I mean, we talk 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:26.839 about this all the time, how much of an impact 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:29.919 Full House had, and then obviously still coming back with 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:32.719 Fuller House. But not only that, but like you said, 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:34.960 this is one of the roles that you get recognized 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:38.800 for often. It's yeah, so many guest stars have come 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:41.320 back and said this is the thing that people know 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:43.320 me as or this is the and it's been like 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:45.480 one episode or maybe two episodes, and they're like. 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:47.080 This is what I get recognized for. 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:48.599 Because people are good. 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:51.640 They were just so excited about the show. 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:54.839 It meant a lot because for me, for so many reasons, 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:57.680 getting cast well at the time I was doing stand 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:00.720 I started doing stand up in like eighty three eighty. 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:03.560 Four, so I knew Dave and I knew. 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:09.200 I still can't keep me on that, yeah, loss, but 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:11.000 but I knew Dave, and I mean I just knew 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:12.719 them from the stand you know, you get to the 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:16.599 improv and the laugh actually comedy store and seeing them there, 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:19.520 and I dated for a long time a stand up 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:21.120 so that was kind of part of the group. So 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:23.560 it was just very cool the set with them, and 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:26.080 I was making my way in a world where there 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:27.279 wasn't still too many women. 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:29.200 Now, I was gonna say that stand uphold is not 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:31.320 u there's not a there's not a lot of women 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:33.360 in it, but we once you kind of find you 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:36.000 and back then even more specifically really bad. 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:40.360 It's very much big hair and boobs and they. 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:41.320 Well, and that was kind of it was like you 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:42.920 kind of had to do that to be like, I'm 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:44.560 going to get in the door with this and then 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:47.080 be funny on the other you know, you know what 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:47.599 to do with me. 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:49.680 But as long as I was making the audience laugh, 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:51.159 you know, I wasn't you know. I knew that you 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:53.800 had to win the women over first and then they're 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:58.000 gonna but but you know, I mean when people told 0:05:58.000 --> 0:05:59.680 me I couldn't do it, then I'm like, Okay, I'm 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:02.800 going to do it anyway. I'm so I love doing 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:05.560 stand up and I love comedy and sitcom always my 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:08.159 favorite thing. And to this day, it was my dream 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:09.840 when I moved up to LA was to get that, 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:11.920 you know, to have that sitcom. 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:13.120 Sitcom life is great. 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:15.520 I always say it's the most nine to five of 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:17.400 this business, you know what I mean. If you can 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:19.360 get a sitcom that last review years, you're like, oh, 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:20.719 it's kind of the sweet spot. 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:22.800 It really is the best of everything because you were 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:25.159 hurt for a week and then you put on a 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:28.840 live play and so you've got the theater part, you've 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:31.520 got the TV part, and back then before all the 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:33.359 you know, everything's streaming TV. 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:35.080 I mean, that was the watch everything. 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:37.320 And I always when I moved to LA, I moved 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:38.360 there for television and. 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:40.440 Not film, and then I ended up, you. 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:43.560 Know, hosting films on USA up all night and it's 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:45.880 so funny. I could have done all those horror films 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:47.920 and all those B films because of all the. 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:49.400 Producers that came to the show. And I was like, no, 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:51.200 I just want to do a sitcom. 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:53.400 Right, You're like, now, I don't want to scream. I 0:06:53.480 --> 0:07:03.599 just want to be funny for people that don't know you. 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:05.920 You're an actress, you're a comedian, you're a writer, you're 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:08.640 an incredible entrepreneur. I mean, the list just goes on. 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:14.200 You've really accomplished so much in your career. It's really incredible. 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:16.560 And you've been around for you know, since the eighties 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:19.080 doing this successfully. And I want to go back to 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:21.840 the very beginning and like talk a little bit of 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:24.200 what age did you know that you wanted to be 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:24.920 on a sitcom? 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:26.640 Or no, what age did you know you wanted to 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:28.800 be an actor? You know, was it did you have 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:30.280 family support or was that what? 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:33.240 And probably you all might have the same similar stories. 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:36.480 I was a shy child, so I actually pushed myself 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:40.840 to do things and and and actually you were really 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:42.800 helped me through a lot of things later on. I'll 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:45.960 jump ahead for a minute, because you all were in 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:48.480 that same PURSU were stars, but the. 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:51.720 Pree me too movement right right. 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:55.520 If it wasn't for a humor and me cracking jokes, 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:57.600 it would have been a lot harder for me because 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:00.120 nothing turned off a guy start trying to make a 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:01.720 past and making jokes. 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:04.400 So I had this outward look. 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:08.720 Of sexy or the bowhem shelfing. I ended up using 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:10.360 it because I couldn't fight it. I could never play 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:12.280 the girl next door, so I just went with it eventually. 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:14.400 But the truth of matter is I was nothing like 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:16.360 that girl. I mean, I wanted to be the smart 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:19.720 dump one. But the humor is what got me through 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:21.400 a lot of I mean. 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:23.000 I didn't have a lot of moments. I never took 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:24.240 a meeting in a hotel room. 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:27.520 Nothing wasn't asked, but it was you know, I was 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:29.600 always I always had someone with me. If I didn't 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:33.079 know what was going on, was sure an audition. But 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:36.679 going back to original series, I started from New Orleans 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:41.040 and I always I started doing commercials and then I 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:43.760 entered pageants because I wanted to become a choreographer. So 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:46.560 I actually did it a dance experience, I mean the 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:49.679 talent portion I start of winning and one was Louisiana. 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:52.360 One different pageants and one thing led to another, and 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:54.800 then I'm asked to do local acting, and then that 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:57.760 bug bit me. And then when I went to college, 0:08:57.800 --> 0:09:00.040 I stayed in school. I say that in town. My 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:03.319 brother in New Orleans went to Loyola and kept acting. 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:04.920 Then in communications, I didn't know if I want to 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:06.599 be a newscaster and actress. 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:09.199 And then through a weird thing. 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:10.720 I'll tell you this, this is kind of a funny story, 0:09:10.720 --> 0:09:13.160 and you're probably a kick out of that time period. 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:15.640 I post for Playboy with all my clothes on. 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:18.120 In nineteen seventy eight. It was insane. 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:20.280 They came through New Orleans doing Girls of the New South, 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:21.800 and I was just curious and wanted to meet a 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:24.400 Playboy photographer. So then I get in front of my 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:26.320 own I know I'm wasting your time. I'm not taking 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:27.839 off any of my clothes. He goes, No, we always 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:30.760 shoot people with their clothes on. I don't know if 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:32.280 you don't make the magazine. If we makes it, you're 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:34.160 going to get on two hundred and seventy five dollars. 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:36.400 And I'm like, okay, So I shot, you know, in 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:39.599 a very southern New Orleans setting. It made the magazine. 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:45.199 I was raining as a queen of something social society, 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:47.760 not not a booty queen, but like something my parents 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:49.559 have put up mine for just there in New Orleans, 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:54.160 right right, They de queened me because of the connotation 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:55.920 of being in the magazine I had all. 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:58.280 My great I mean, that was what happened. I mean, 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:02.080 I mean with the who was it Vanessa? 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:04.600 Yes, miss yes, who. 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:08.200 Won with America? Yes, but she closed not that. 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:10.520 That mattered, but she right, But still yeah, it was 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:12.160 that was it. And I mean that was the thing. 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:14.000 If you were, you know, if you didn't fit into 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:16.160 the box that people wanted you to, or you were 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:18.839 you know, especially too sexy or do this or too 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:19.640 then you that's it. 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:22.559 You're not absolutely And that was down South. Well, I 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:24.400 guess I've always had a little mischief in my blood. 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:27.280 And the guy that had was head of the Floral 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:32.720 Trail Society of New Orleans, well he was running for 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:35.280 public office. So I had just graduated from college and 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:37.360 I threw my hat in the ring and ran against him. 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:40.280 Initially it was just to irritate love it. 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:44.319 I love this, this is all to it. 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:47.640 And I lost five hundred votes, and then I'm I 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:51.119 think I'm a politician. So I applied for law school, 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:54.480 got in, and then I just took a break. I'm like, 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:56.360 I really want to go to LA And I asked 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:58.400 my parents, can I just go there for three months? 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:01.920 And I went to l A enrolled in the American 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:04.079 Academy of Dramatic Arts because my parents had to see me. 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:05.079 In a school setting. 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:09.000 And then I guys are so young, but you'll remember, 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:11.080 I think I got cast in a Bob Hope special 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:14.440 that of Happy Days, and things happened really fast for me. 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:17.960 And that was it twenty six years later until my 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:23.040 first love, first kiss, First Everything reached out to me 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:26.800 through classmates dot com. Van Fagan, my first boyfriend from 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:28.720 Junior High from New Orleans. 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:31.080 Wow, and we talk about Junior High all the time 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:33.760 on the show and memory First. 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:37.199 Love, First Love. So here I'm dating all these. 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:40.400 I was with a really talented comic for many years, 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:42.320 and I hid behind my boyfriend. I kind of used 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:45.320 them as shields, like I'm taking my boyfriend to you know. 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:49.600 So that was probably good or bad. But I never married. 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:52.280 I just never felt I found the right person did. 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:55.040 I would picture my clothes in their house and nothing 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:57.760 ever fit or my I just it didn't Mark and 0:11:57.800 --> 0:12:01.440 I'm really and I really was shot I comedy. I 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:04.560 pushed myself to, you know, to do that, and actually 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:06.320 it did help for many reasons. 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:07.640 You know. It just it put me inside. 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:09.319 I find a lot I mean a lot of comedians 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:11.720 tend to It's it's interesting because there can be so 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:14.120 big and so you know, on stage, and then you 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:16.200 oftentimes you meet them and they're a little more quiet 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:18.320 or a little more reserved, or you know, just not 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:20.520 quite as overly friendly or whatever. 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:22.840 No comics tend to be people who. 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:25.320 Are like very much in here the whole time, and 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:27.840 then like they can let it out and then they're like, okay, 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:29.360 now back it's in front of the mic. 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:31.360 It's in front of the mic. You had this power 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:32.000 to be anything. 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:34.240 It doesn't feel like kind of my brother, behind of 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:34.960 my right. 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:37.760 I would it just it was just very free and 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:39.920 I started an improv in the party Olympics plass. 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:42.040 I love comedy and I loved physical comedy. 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:46.240 But anyway, I didn't run through office one went out 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:48.360 there twenty six years when I was working actress all 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:50.760 twenty six years, you know, so that was really good. 0:12:50.800 --> 0:12:52.439 I had my sag insurance all the way through. 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:55.400 That's great, that's success, right, That's really all that was. 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:57.680 As actors were like, just let me afford the insurance. 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:01.400 I think the mistake I made when I did USA 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:04.800 All Night, I have to do that in case with watching. 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:08.199 I used my own name instead of using a character 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:12.520 name like Cassandra Peterson used Elvira right right. Getting off 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:15.640 of the show, casting directors were like, well, who are 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:15.920 you that? 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:17.880 You know? They just didn't know what to do with me. 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:21.440 But that's okay. At that age, I was like then forty, 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:22.040 I'm thinking. 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:22.240 You know. 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:24.360 My mother was like, are you ever getting married or 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:27.000 you're gonna have a child. Well, anyway, long story short, 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:28.680 I did end up marrying Van. 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:32.040 But you'll like, I went to New Orleans to go 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:33.880 back home to visit my parents and he was from 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:37.000 New Orleans, so he was living in Lafayette, Louisiana. I 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:38.400 was living in New Orleans and so I'm going to 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:40.000 visit my mother. I was having a fight with this 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:43.280 guy that I had a few dates with and saw 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:44.839 some Pottenti with him, but it did work out. 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:45.640 I said, well, I'm leaving. 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:47.760 I'm going to see my mom in New Orleans, and 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:50.640 I just wanted to irritate Van because I had just 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:51.320 come off with TV. 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:54.200 I was feeling really good about myself. I'm sin just 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:56.559 and he was the only guy who really broke my 0:13:56.640 --> 0:13:59.240 heart at fifteen years old. He broke my heart. 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:01.560 And so I'm like, I'm just gonna show this guy 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:03.960 he broke He had been watching me on TV. I 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:05.960 had no idea what he looked like, right, I didn't 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:08.400 see her in twenty five years Lo and behold he 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:13.679 walks into my mom's house fifteen days later. Weale, Wow, 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:18.160 what a love story. It was like he got you 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:19.640 know what it was, and you I will relate to 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:22.360 this too. He was such a man and I was 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:25.480 used to dating. You know, I love comics. But you 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:27.680 know he would fight me from maritime in the bathroom 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:29.400 or you know. It was like, you know, if I 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:31.280 got a job over him, because some stand up I could, 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:33.520 I could headline over him, then he'd be upset. 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:35.240 But here's a guy who. 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:36.320 Was a narcissist. 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:42.600 Sorry, this real man who he was just different and 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:45.600 so but then we're like, he's living in laught again. 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:46.640 I'm living in Beverly Hiltle. 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:50.240 Now what so And that's when Terry grows our dear 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:52.400 makeup orders for him. Yes, you're not going to ever 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:54.720 stay with him. Never, You're never going to leave all lite, 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:55.200 You're never. 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:57.720 I mean, she wasn't. She liked Van, but she was. 0:14:57.960 --> 0:14:58.840 She just didn't think. 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:03.000 I would ever live La, right, And I'm not a quitter. 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:06.280 And we started this intimate apparel business never thinking it 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:10.680 would go anywhere. We just did it literally to work 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:13.760 together because we hadn't seen each other. And twenty two 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:17.000 years later, we're one of the largest apparel brand, Intimate, 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:19.640 a power brand on home shopping and QVC, and we 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:23.920 continue all over the world. So you know, yeah, I 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:26.880 have had many So I will send you some of 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:27.960 my pretty. 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:32.320 Yes, they are super comfortable and they're yeah, they're like 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:35.240 Terry has told me all about them. And I'm always like, 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:40.400 I love you guys, oh yes, yes, Oh my god, 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:41.120 I can't wait. 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:45.720 But I just love to see you know, women. 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:49.440 Who like you, who who have gone through their lives 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:50.680 and been like, oh, you're gonna tell me what I 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:52.400 can't do, I'm going to do that. 0:15:53.040 --> 0:15:53.680 I'm going to do that. 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:56.800 Yeah, And I and I like being one of those 0:15:56.800 --> 0:16:00.360 women myself. I just really, I have great admiraine for. 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:03.720 And I know your story and I know your leadership. 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:05.440 I know both. I mean I've followed both of you 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:05.800 all and. 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:07.880 It's amazing and what you're doing right now in this 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:11.000 podcast which people love, which is amazing. But No, I 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:13.480 was told no I was to this or to that. 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:16.440 In la I couldn't run through office and I did. 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:18.520 I couldn't be a stand up because I looked a 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:21.920 certain way. I couldn't even when my husband I started 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:23.960 the business, like you can't start an intimate a power 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:25.680 of business. You guys have never been in fashion, but 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:29.480 I'd always designed my costumes and things. But you can't 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:31.160 do it because there's too many other there's too much 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:31.760 other competition. 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:33.920 I'm like, no, I will do it my own way. 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:36.120 And the one thing I think beauty pageants taught me, 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:38.400 or pageants back in the day, is that as many 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:41.640 gorgeous women as there was and talented in la As, 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:43.560 I never looked left or right. I just did my 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:46.880 own thing. I did with myself. I never said, oh 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:48.680 my gosh, look at her on an edition. But I'll 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:50.560 never get this role. And that's what you have to do, 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:52.000 is just be yourself. 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:55.680 I think that's that's such a huge piece of advice, 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:58.040 is like, don't it's not about looking like, am I 0:16:58.040 --> 0:16:58.960 better than this person? 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:01.720 Worse than this person? What do you want it? 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:04.640 And you and you're so much happier because you're never 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:08.479 there's always going to be someone more or better or 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:11.800 this or that whatever. Fine, yes, but like I'm not 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:14.879 trying to compete to be them. I'm just trying to 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:17.320 be me, you know. And that's such a great lesson, 0:17:17.400 --> 0:17:20.000 is like just be you and do it well, you know, 0:17:20.200 --> 0:17:21.640 whatever you are, do that. 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:23.040 And I think that was the. 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:25.680 Reason why I stayed there and had at least set 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:29.680 level of success and loved acting and love working. And 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:32.040 what's funny now is that I don't know. I guess 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:34.280 all the people that grew up with me, and you know, 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:36.280 you got another thing that you all relate to. Well, 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:38.520