Speaker 1: Okay. So I went to the Heidi Klum party last night.
Speaker 1: So I saw Heidi Klum at the Laurel fashion show
Speaker 1: in Paris. She was super sweet, so supportive, and when
Speaker 1: I got the invite, I think there was a connection
Speaker 1: she had just seen me. Unless I'm reading too much
Speaker 1: into it, but I think I've been to her party
Speaker 1: once before, a long time ago. I don't remember how
Speaker 1: I got invited. It was much bigger. I think I
Speaker 1: went a share with an ex and it was much
Speaker 1: bigger and overwhelming, and I didn't know what to expect.
Speaker 1: So I went with my friend Dan and I was
Speaker 1: wonder Woman. And I love the costume I chose because
Speaker 1: for me, it was comfortable. It wasn't unwieldy, it wasn't
Speaker 1: a ton of makeup. I feel like wonder Woman lately,
Speaker 1: and I feel like I stuck the landing. I did
Speaker 1: original wonder Woman, seventies wonder Woman, Linda Carter wonder Woman,
Speaker 1: you know, original makeup, original costume, had it made, took
Speaker 1: it seriously, did it within a week and a half.
Speaker 1: Two weeks though. It was like a cram, but I
Speaker 1: didn't really think about it. It wasn't dramatic. I'm not one
Speaker 1: who wants to do seventy five fittings and stress out
Speaker 1: about something. I just think the things you think of
Speaker 1: kind of towards the last minute and just pull it together.
Speaker 1: Always work best, and I do it all myself. Like
Speaker 1: the makeup, I had a makeup artist do it, but
Speaker 1: I really directed how I wanted it to be done exactly,
Speaker 1: and even like right when it was done and the
Speaker 1: people around me thought it looked good, I was like, no,
Speaker 1: we need to pop this, We need to pop that,
Speaker 1: we need to do this, we need to do that.
Speaker 1: So I'm getting more and more involved. And I always
Speaker 1: dress myself. I never borrow clothing. I only like to
Speaker 1: buy or be given. I just I like. I like
Speaker 1: styling myself. It's become this sort of creative thing that
Speaker 1: you try to figure out for the event, what makes
Speaker 1: sense in your life in the moment, like what it means,
Speaker 1: and I don't rush, Like I will have an outfit
Speaker 1: with tags on it in my closet or a dress
Speaker 1: for years, I buy it on sale, it's sitting in
Speaker 1: my closet and then the moment arrives where it's perfect.
Speaker 1: And if you force something for the wrong event, it's
Speaker 1: not perfect, So you got to kind of just trust
Speaker 1: the process and so many different types of things you
Speaker 1: get invited to dictate what you'll wear. I just went
Speaker 1: to a Madman themed wedding, you know, Like I went
Speaker 1: to the US Open and wore this cute, like denim
Speaker 1: flirty skirt that I've been wanting to wear for long,
Speaker 1: like maybe two years. I just like sort of deciding
Speaker 1: based on that year, that experience, and who you're going
Speaker 1: to see, what you're going to do. So I love Halloween,
Speaker 1: but I only love it when you're doing it right,
Speaker 1: meaning like the half asked when you go trick or
Speaker 1: treating with your kids and just stick on the skeleton
Speaker 1: suit or the witch hat. Like I have all that,
Speaker 1: and that's fine for the neighborhood, but I always feel
Speaker 1: kind of like, make make an effort. I have a
Speaker 1: massive Halloween box, so I have a big plastic storage
Speaker 1: bin that all costumes are separated by zip block bags,
Speaker 1: and then I have wigs separated by zip block bags, accessories,
Speaker 1: jewelries separated, shoes separated, and I just edited it today
Speaker 1: thinking that it was already organized because I've organized it,
Speaker 1: but now I went through every single costume taking it
Speaker 1: out of its bag. Looking at it, does it look cheap?
Speaker 1: Is the wig grows? Is it too ratty? And I
Speaker 1: just threw out one giant, entire bin of old Halloween stuff.
Speaker 1: It felt so good. So I also like to purge
Speaker 1: holiday stuff, not just like normal clothes. I'm constantly refreshing
Speaker 1: and purging and organizing, and today was a day that
Speaker 1: I did that for Halloween and it felt so good.
Speaker 1: It's just nice to go back and like, no, you
Speaker 1: have all good things. Or if your kids coming over
Speaker 1: with their friends, like you have a costume for them.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I like being that mom that my
Speaker 1: daughter comes over with her friend and looks through the
Speaker 1: costume bin and chooses something. So that was a big
Speaker 1: task today. But back to the party. So it's Heidi
Speaker 1: Klum's party. She came with her life partner. I don't
Speaker 1: know if they're actually married, but as like Et, like
Speaker 1: aliens like Et and missus Et, and it was so
Speaker 1: amazing and the eyes were real and like she goes
Speaker 1: all the way in, like she goes eyeballs deep in
Speaker 1: the costume and that's a commitment and she really really
Speaker 1: owns Halloween. And her party is iconic and it's a brand,
Speaker 1: and it's every year, and this year it was at
Speaker 1: the hard Rock Hotel in New York City, which was
Speaker 1: like New York Times Square, and I didn't know there
Speaker 1: was a hard Rock hotel in New York City. And
Speaker 1: all I could tell you is this venue was amazing.
Speaker 1: It wasn't gigantic. It was a reasonably sized venue that
Speaker 1: had like velvet booths, banquettes, and it felt special. It
Speaker 1: felt adult. It didn't feel cheesy. It didn't feel like
Speaker 1: young kids doing drugs, didn't feel like too celebrity. There
Speaker 1: were celebrities, but it wasn't like a powerhouse a list
Speaker 1: with security group. It was like, you know, it was
Speaker 1: like me and Mario Canton and Nicole Scherzinger, like a
Speaker 1: kid from outer Banks, like what's his name? Stokes? Is
Speaker 1: it Chase Stokes? Like great celebrities, but it just was eclectic.
Speaker 1: And Heidi Klum is obviously a big celebrity, but it
Speaker 1: just wasn't giving diva. It was giving like people that
Speaker 1: came and wanted to have fun, but not out of control.
Speaker 1: Sometimes Halloween can be a little scary, like it gets
Speaker 1: a little freaky and everyone's wearing costumes and you feel
Speaker 1: a little dark, and you just feel like it just
Speaker 1: gets overwhelming. It's too crowded. You drink, you feel like
Speaker 1: you can't breathe, like you're suffocating your costume. Someone's on
Speaker 1: top of you, poking you with an angel wing. It
Speaker 1: wasn't like that. I call it alchemy. There was an
Speaker 1: alchemy that was great in the room. The DJ was
Speaker 1: a ten, the venue was a ten, the energy was
Speaker 1: a ten. I was just hanging out with Randos. I
Speaker 1: had a really great booth. I had like the best
Speaker 1: booth in the place besides Tidi Klum like. I had
Speaker 1: a corner but mac Daddy like, I'm Madonna. Booth like.
Speaker 1: It was legit, and you know, they gave us beautiful cocktails.
Speaker 1: But as someone who had been given this ball or
Speaker 1: booth like, I participated in the party. If that makes
Speaker 1: any sense. I posted on social media. I tagged Heidi.
Speaker 1: I invited other people over to my booth. Mario Cantone,
Speaker 1: who is the guy from Sex and City, the funny
Speaker 1: you know, gay guy who's Charlotte's best friend, who's in
Speaker 1: and just like that, I invited him over with his
Speaker 1: husband of thirty four years and they ended up hanging
Speaker 1: out like I felt like I was being hospitable, if
Speaker 1: that makes any sense. Jonathan Cheban came and I haven't
Speaker 1: seen him for years. He said we should do a
Speaker 1: food video. I invited him to sit with me. Like
Speaker 1: it was a nice experience. I really it was a
Speaker 1: really nice experience. And it was very like I said,
Speaker 1: adult DJ was amazing, the dancing was amazing, but you
Speaker 1: just didn't feel like a fucking hot mess at one
Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning. But you just felt like, Okay,
Speaker 1: the music's changing and it's time, and it's I am
Speaker 1: a person that knows when to leave a party. Like
Speaker 1: you just kind of it gets repeent, like you're on
Speaker 1: a loop. You've done it, You've danced to it, it's
Speaker 1: been amazing, You've talked to people, you went to the
Speaker 1: dance floor, you came back, you had a drink, you
Speaker 1: had another drink, you took pictures, you did video whatever,
Speaker 1: you hung with your friends, you had good conversations, and
Speaker 1: then like it starts all over again. You're like, Okay,
Speaker 1: we're on a loop. Like we did it. Let's leave
Speaker 1: a party at its peak. Let's leave a party at
Speaker 1: its peak. So I am grateful to have been invited
Speaker 1: I would definitely go next year. I just think it.
Speaker 1: She personifies Halloween, and I think that, like everything else,
Speaker 1: every year, people perfect their stuffing recipe, their Thanksgiving, their
Speaker 1: birthday party. Every year, she's perfected this party. I've been before,
Speaker 1: and I feel like I think it was Bronson van
Speaker 1: Wick who planned it. There's no food there. They had
Speaker 1: butter fingers on the table. Who's a sponsor? Good alcohol
Speaker 1: per No Recard was the sponsor, and like that's all
Speaker 1: you needed. We had cocktails, we had good music. It
Speaker 1: started at nine. Also, also I got there, I have
Speaker 1: to say, like nine to twenty five. I knew it
Speaker 1: was at nine. We're sort of like Losory. We're gonna
Speaker 1: be on the front end of people getting there, you
Speaker 1: know what. Good for us because I don't want to
Speaker 1: get there at ten thirty in jockey for position. We
Speaker 1: got there early. We got a great table. I tipped
Speaker 1: the people that helped us at our table because I
Speaker 1: think that's important. And like pigs get fat and hogs
Speaker 1: get slaughtered, I don't need to roll in there at
Speaker 1: ten fifteen, waiting at home for what I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: and looking to like look cool when I get there.
Speaker 1: None of that was important to me. It's important to
Speaker 1: me is good real estate. So even if I wasn't
Speaker 1: graciously given a beautiful table, I could have found a
Speaker 1: corner and found a chair and made my own real estate.
Speaker 1: I'll always figure it out. I'm that bitch. So we
Speaker 1: got there early, early bird gets the booth. I was happy.
Speaker 1: It was wonderful. Halloween went off without a hitch. Everybody
Speaker 1: thought it looked exactly like Linda Carter, like I overshot
Speaker 1: the mark. I just wanted to look good. I had
Speaker 1: an original seventies costume, like it was a replica. Thank
Speaker 1: you Garro and his beautiful assistant, Like, I overshot the
Speaker 1: mark because I took the wig and the detail in
Speaker 1: the makeup so seriously. So I'm feeling myself. I was
Speaker 1: feeling myself. It was great. But people are like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, you actually are a wonder woman, Like this
Speaker 1: is not a costume and you are Linda Carter. People
Speaker 1: were messaging me that they showed their daughters like the
Speaker 1: original and me and like, oh my god, it's the
Speaker 1: same person. So that was amazing. And when you stick,
Speaker 1: I've had expensive costumes that haven't landed. I had someone
Speaker 1: do a costume for me that was like supposed to
Speaker 1: be Barbie, and I ended up looking like Anna Nicole
Speaker 1: Smith like back in that day. And I've had supposed
Speaker 1: to be sharing. It doesn't land, and it sucks when
Speaker 1: it doesn't land because someone has to do the makeup perfectly.
Speaker 1: It all has to come together. Don't go. If you go,
Speaker 1: go or stay home, like do it or don't. Don't
Speaker 1: try to accomplish something you can't get done. Don't bite
Speaker 1: off more than you could chew. Do something cute and
Speaker 1: creative and be simple because often the best costumes are simple.
Speaker 1: But don't like go in it's like too hard a recipe,
Speaker 1: and then you can't do it, and then you get
Speaker 1: in the middle and you suck. I've sucked my Hello
Speaker 1: Kitty sucked, my Share sucked, My Barbie sucked. My Marilyn
Speaker 1: Monroe crushed eight. I would say this is my Marilyn
Speaker 1: Monroe are the two best of my entire life. So
Speaker 1: that was good. So I already know what I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be next year. You're welcome. Great time had by all.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Heidi and crew. Let's talk about birthdays. Okay,
Speaker 1: it is my birthday, it is my mother's birthday. My
Speaker 1: mother passed away. I was born on her twentieth birthday.
Speaker 1: That has always been triggering for me. It has always
Speaker 1: been a weird day. I got sick every year of
Speaker 1: my life on my birthday. I would throw up or
Speaker 1: come down with something. I would be locked in my room.
Speaker 1: I couldn't get out. I was a disaster my whole year.
Speaker 1: On my birthday, I had a nervous breakdown on television
Speaker 1: when I there was a surprise party for my birthday.
Speaker 1: I don't do well. I'm off to a good start.
Speaker 1: It's a ready lunchtime and I'm off to a decent start.
Speaker 1: I have been getting better, and I think my mother
Speaker 1: passing away has helped me to release something. Knowing that
Speaker 1: she existed on this earth and that I was born
Speaker 1: on her twentieth birthday on a cellular level affected me.
Speaker 1: Knowing that we didn't have a relationship, We didn't speak,
Speaker 1: but she was like there and it was her birthday
Speaker 1: and she alone, and what's it like and I and
Speaker 1: somehow going back to my childhood and thinking about all
Speaker 1: my birthdays and what it must have been like to
Speaker 1: have me on her twentieth birthday, and hearing that she
Speaker 1: never wanted to have me for my stepfather any chance
Speaker 1: he's gotten to tell me. It just is a triggering day.
Speaker 1: And I am so narcissistic about it because like I
Speaker 1: don't want it, but then if I don't get it,
Speaker 1: I feel left out, Like I don't want a big
Speaker 1: deal to be made, but I want a deal to
Speaker 1: be made, so I want you to do something for me,
Speaker 1: but I don't want you to do too much, and
Speaker 1: I don't want the big singing at the table. I'll
Speaker 1: have a panic attack, but I don't want no one
Speaker 1: to notice it. And I want cake but I don't.
Speaker 1: It's a nightmare, Like I don't know if you're like that,
Speaker 1: but on the goldilocks of my birthday, I cannot get
Speaker 1: the fucking temperature right. And I've been better. And I
Speaker 1: don't set myself up for disaster by planning some over
Speaker 1: the top crazy thing on the actual day, because I'll
Speaker 1: have a meltdown, nervous breakdown, and then I like, well,
Speaker 1: it'll be too much. What I do is I plan nothing,
Speaker 1: and then like literally on the day of, which is
Speaker 1: what I'm doing today, I'll throw it together and I'll
Speaker 1: end up being a great dinner of like fourteen people
Speaker 1: but it'll be like I'll have a core group of
Speaker 1: a couple of people I want to see, make sure
Speaker 1: I'm with my daughter, if I'm in a relationship, and
Speaker 1: then I start layering in people. It could be people
Speaker 1: that work for me at my house. It could be
Speaker 1: an assistant, It could be a makeup person. It could
Speaker 1: be a rando I saw yesterday. It could be an
Speaker 1: old friend I just started speaking to. I throw it together.
Speaker 1: It doesn't have to mean a lot, and everybody has
Speaker 1: to know. It's a hodgepodge and it's a bunch of stragglers,
Speaker 1: and everyone's going to be a good person and you're
Speaker 1: going to have a good time, and that's it. No expectations,
Speaker 1: good food. Let's say it happened and keep it fucking moving.
Speaker 1: I always get nice flowers. People make a big deal.
Speaker 1: I'm very grateful. I'm terrible at remembering other people's birthdays.
Speaker 1: I hate when people remember mine because I always forget
Speaker 1: everyone else's, and when they remember mine, I start to
Speaker 1: feel self conscious about Oh my god, David was Song
Speaker 1: remembers my birthday every year, and I've never once remembered
Speaker 1: his because I don't even know what his is. And
Speaker 1: now it's been so many years of him remembering mine.
Speaker 1: I don't want to ask him what his is. Chuck Sodano,
Speaker 1: same thing. I suck at that. I suck at remembering
Speaker 1: if it's your birthday, whether you're my best friend or
Speaker 1: anyone except for my child, I suck. So I will
Speaker 1: remember it the week before and I'll send a gift,
Speaker 1: But then I'll fucking forget on the day to text
Speaker 1: you because I never know what day it is. So
Speaker 1: that sucks too. So I suck at that, and I'm
Speaker 1: really sorry, and I get self conscious. So happy birthday
Speaker 1: to all of you. I will forget your birthday. I
Speaker 1: am sorry. I care, I do it in different ways.
Speaker 1: I'm not perfect. So I love you guys. Happy birthday
Speaker 1: to you and to me. Bye.