WEBVTT - The Importance of Being Peta 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:05.320 I really don't know that much about Peter Murgatroyd. Um, 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:08.440 I certainly don't know how to pronounce her husband's name. 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:10.799 Was she can help me with. But I've seen her 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:12.800 on Dancing with the Stars, and I know that she 0:00:12.960 --> 0:00:19.400 has been a vocal spokesperson for infertility and what you 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:23.520 go through and mostly just her career as a dancer 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:27.200 and pour a into beauty. So I'm really looking forward 0:00:27.240 --> 0:00:32.680 to talking to her. And here's my conversation with Peter Murgatroyd. 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:36.080 It's so nice to meet you. Nice to meet you too. 0:00:36.159 --> 0:00:39.400 I'm I'm very honored right now to be speaking with you. 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:43.239 Thank you. Oh no, I'm very excited to talk to 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:45.880 you too. And I see I see at the bottom 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:48.199 of your screen it says your husband's name. Could you 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:55.200 just pronounce it for me, Chamikovsky Chamiakovsky. Yes, so that 0:00:55.920 --> 0:00:59.800 is that your name to now? Chamiakovsky legally yes, yes, 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:07.040 but I'm on his computer today because mine was okay, well, um, 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:11.080 I am also my grand My grandparents are from Ukraine. 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:16.479 So yeah, so I watched you know, your husband when 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:21.600 he was over there. Yes, it was a time that 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:24.920 I would love to forget about it. Was pretty bad 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:29.200 and amongst other things like you know, struggling with infertility 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:31.080 and stuff like that along the way as well. It 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:35.840 was just like a culmination of terrible things happening, you know, 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:38.959 in the last two years. But yeah, you know, we've 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:40.720 got to be grateful that he's out of there and 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:44.520 he's he's fine. Yeah, and and how are you doing. 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:50.800 I'm I think that I'm doing really good right now. 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:53.120 I think I'm in a great place. I'm positive and 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:57.560 hopeful and just um, it was just a little bit 0:01:57.560 --> 0:01:59.960 of a dark time to get out of, that's for sure. 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:03.520 It was. We were really in it together, and you know, 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:07.559 thank god, we do everything together. You know, it sounds 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:11.000 corny and stupid, but we've got each other and that's 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:13.920 kind of the main thing. So it does not sound 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:16.880 corny and stupid. I am married for thirty four years 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:20.360 and there's nothing I don't do with my husband and 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:24.000 vice versa. So no, it's not corny and stupid. It's 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:28.600 the way it should be. Yeah, I mean, congrats on 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:32.560 thirty four years. And yeah, yeah, thirty four years, three 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:36.480 kids and a new grandchild of a week. So it's 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:40.120 quite a quite a journey. But you know, nothing. Nothing's 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:44.360 easy in life, as you know, you know, it's yeah, yeah, 0:02:44.480 --> 0:02:47.160 And how old is your You have a son, Yes, 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:50.639 he's five and a half now. He just studied kindergarten 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:54.200 and he's happy and thriving. And this is one of 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:56.720 the things that I've kind of come to terms with 0:02:56.840 --> 0:03:01.519 that I just have to be I have to look 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:04.000 around and be grateful for what I have. And again, 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:08.320 that sounds so simple Lehman's terms, be grateful, but it's 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:12.080 just something that I'm learning to do every morning, to 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:15.480 wake up and look around and be be grateful, you know, 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:18.760 because instead of more, instead of hoping for more babies, 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:21.480 instead of hoping for a soccer team to come by, 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:25.240 you know, it just is what it is and take 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:27.680 life as it comes, you know. Now, well, you've been 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:32.639 very open about your fertility struggles and you know, your 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:36.400 first child, did you have issues getting pregnant with him 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:41.560 or no? He was surprised. I guess it was just, 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:45.920 you know, we're happy and working and just living a 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:49.240 great life. And yeah, and then the second time, which 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:51.600 was my first miscarriage, it was the first time we 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:55.600 tried as well, so we thought we were on top 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:58.240 of the world. Just you know, Oh my gosh, it's 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:01.200 always the first time we try, you know, like, yeah, 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:04.720 we were just thinking it was easy, and from then 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:11.280 on it just when you know, but there's still hope. 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:16.120 Are you still hopeful in trying or yeah? Absolutely? I 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:20.640 mean we're always you know. I thought about completely not 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:23.120 trying for like a good six months now, just to 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:26.320 get my body a break. But you know, I've definitely 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:29.839 given it a break from IVF. I've had a good 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:34.640 two months two months off now. Um, so I think 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:36.640 I'm going to continue with that for like the rest 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:39.000 of the year and then just kind of see what happens. 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:43.320 But just sitting in a nice space of just positivity 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:47.080 is just nice. Yeah, no, it is. It is really nice. 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:50.480 And so so tell me, you know how it is 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:52.000 to be back on the show. I know you took 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:56.000 a year off, Yeah I did, and again, amongst all 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:58.760 the other stuff that happened, I I didn't go back 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:01.120 to the show, which I thought was the right decision 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:04.279 at the time, and then I realized how much I 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:07.440 missed it. You know, dancing is you know, the passion 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:10.280 that fuels me, It makes me happy, it makes me, um, 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:15.240 you know, emoting all of those emotions through the dance. 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:18.279 It just it makes me feel good. And I realized 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:21.279 how much I missed moving my body, especially during the 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:25.440 ib F months, where you know, you're either bed ridden 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:28.120 or you're on the couch, or you can't even you know, 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:30.760 the most exercise that I could do was walking around 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:34.360 the block. They said, so it's hard for when you're 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:37.559 so active and when you're so physical with your body 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:39.680 your entire life, and then you just have to sit 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:43.440 and wait. Um, so yeah, I was. I was really 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:45.600 really happy to go back to the season this time. 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:48.520 You know, it's on Disney. Plus, it's kind of refreshed, 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:51.840 it's renewed um. And I think I made the right 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:54.480 decision because mentally it put me in a good space too, 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:59.000 after hearing that the IVF didn't work right, because I mean, 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:02.400 from most people that don't have a regular walking or 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:05.560 exercise program, I don't think they realized it's just not 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:08.479 the physical that your body doesn't feel as good, but 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:11.640 it's really the mental. I mean, you know, the cobwebs. 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:14.120 I clean the cobwebs of my brain when I moved 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:17.200 my body, so I'm I'm sure it must have been 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:20.720 It must have been difficult for sure. Yeah, but well, 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:23.400 I mean I knew it was for you know, a 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:26.920 great outcome. This is what I want to be pregnant again. 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:29.800 But yeah, it's just like, oh my gosh, how much 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:32.920 more sitting around? Can I can one possibly? Do? You know? 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:38.240 It's like difficult. Well, you you've been an athlete your 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:41.560 whole life. I mean you were a ballerina right until 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:46.320 you're sixteen, is that true? And and you had an injury, yes, 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:54.440 ankle injury. I had uh, full blown ankle reconstruction at sixteen. Yeah, 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:56.880 it was it was tough because that was what that 0:06:57.080 --> 0:07:00.080 was like my career trajectory. I was going to a 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:03.800 prima ballerina either in Russia and Germany or London and 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:08.760 that kind of just fell apart. So transitioned into boring dancing, 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:12.080 found the local town hall down the road and signed 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:15.280 myself up and kind of never looked back. And here 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:19.040 I'm in Los Angeles. It's it's quite strange that you 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:22.280 were this was this was in Australia that you did this. Yeah, 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:25.000 this is all in Australia, right you were you were 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:27.960 born in New Zealand, but you moved to Australia and 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:31.960 you consider yourself from Australia, and yeah, I came to 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:34.720 Australia when I was like eighteen months old, so I 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:38.160 considered myself Australian. Yeah. Yeah, And you wouldn't have met 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:41.440 your husband if you had followed that original path, right, 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:44.840 So that's true. I mean, we met each other on 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:48.000 Broadway in New York in one of the shows that 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:51.960 I was doing there, and yeah, it's it's quite surreal 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:54.239 because we were both with other people at the time, 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:56.800 so he came in with the fiance I had a 0:07:56.840 --> 0:07:59.400 long term boyfriend, and there was just nothing like we 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:02.720 never that about each other at all. Um. And then 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:04.400 it was only when we came back to l A 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:06.960 together for the season of Dancing with Stars and I 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:11.640 had quit that ballt um that Broadway show, that we 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:13.280 kind of just looked at each other in a different 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:17.840 light and thought, oh, you were both single. Then when 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:21.480 you went to l Yeah, yeah, And was it love 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:23.360 at first sight? I mean, come on, your husband is 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:26.160 so gorgeous and hot and sexy and all those things, 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:30.520 so you know, and no, it wasn't it truly wasn't 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:32.640 we I Mean I thought he was a good looking guy, 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:37.400 but I feel I'm so I'm so far removed when 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:40.680 somebody comes with somebody else, I don't even like put 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:44.240 him in my peripheral like or anything. He's he's out, 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:46.840 like he's not even a you know, you're not even 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:50.400 a thought in my mind. So not well, your other 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:52.960 your other boyfriend us have been also good looking, so 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:57.520 you know, yeah, he's all right. Yeah? Uh and how 0:08:57.520 --> 0:09:01.200 many years you guys married? We have been marying five 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:04.920 years now, but we've been together for about nine years. 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:09.640 So yeah, it's I feel like it's a long time 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:14.320 as in, like for Hollywood, that's quite a feat, you 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:20.360 know it is. And you work together also, right, yes, 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:23.960 so yeah, what is what are what are the pros 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:28.120 and what are the cons um pros? Is that we 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:30.600 get to share our love for dance and we get 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:33.200 to perform. You know, if we're on a tour together, 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:36.200 we get to live that life every night and perform 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:38.680 in front of a live audience. There is nothing more 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:42.240 thrilling than hearing them clap for you and letting them 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:48.319 feel your emotion. Um cons that if you're having an 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:50.760 argument and you have to go out and dance, you know, 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:52.640 you've got to put that face on. You've got to 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:55.240 get through it, or you know, you don't agree on choreography, 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:57.240 or you don't like this step, but he wants to 0:09:57.240 --> 0:09:59.559 do this step. You know, those sorts of things come 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:03.079 up all the time. How soon after you guys that, 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:09.040 did you guys get engaged? Um, well, we dated for 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:11.720 a year and then we broke up for a year, 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:14.280 got back together, and then it was about a year 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:17.160 and a half of us being back together that he proposed. 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:20.160 So yeah, I think it was a good I think 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:23.000 it was a good timeline. Really, we kind of figured 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:24.880 out that no, we really want to be together, and 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:28.360 then um kind of made it happen and solidified it. 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:33.040 And what was your first dance and your first dance 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:36.920 song at the wedding? That must have been like unbreaking believable. 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:41.880 To be honest, it was quite simple and we did nothing. 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:45.800 My dress was so big that, um, we kind of 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:49.280 left the performance to everybody else. We didn't do that 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:51.319 whole look at me, look at me, I'm going to 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:54.319 rip away my dress and a short dress underneath. Now. 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:57.880 We didn't do anything. We just stood there and swayed 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:05.560 and our song was from Brianna. Um, I literally can't 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:07.800 remember what our song is right now. I will not 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:10.080 tell him. I will not tell him. I'm sure he's not. 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:15.800 It was an acoustic version of one of Brianna's songs 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:19.760 like my mine. I do remember mine was Don't Worry 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:23.080 Be Happy by Bobby McFerrin. I don't know why I 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:25.280 walked down the aisle to that. It was our first song. 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:38.319 I don't know. Oh my gosh, I love that. So 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:42.360 tell me a little bit about your self care routines. 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:44.439 Like a lot of people listening, you know, I talk 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:47.800 a lot about you know different you know, issues about 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:49.600 how to eat and how to take care of yourself. 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:52.679 What is your philosophy and is there anything you can 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:57.959 struggle with? Mm hmmm, Um, well, I was taught from 0:11:57.960 --> 0:12:00.319 a very young age. My mother was always were big 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:04.199 on skincare as in when I was very little, always 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:07.160 moisturized in my face when I went to school. I 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:09.640 went to school with a shiny face every day with 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:12.360 moisturizer on it. And people would always comment and say, 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:14.720 you know, why do you have a shiny face? And 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:18.480 I said, Well, because my mom put moisturize around me. 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:21.679 She's making sure my skin is not dry. And um, 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:24.439 I really thank her for that, because I feel like 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:27.280 my skin has held up over all the years of 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:30.640 makeup and crazy things would have to do with you 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:35.000 being on Broadway and stuff like that. Um, But I 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:38.320 always think less it's more. I think having good skin 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:41.880 is when you look the most beautiful. Um. Seeing the 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:45.079 skin through a light foundation is what I love the best. 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:49.720 I hate that caked on powdered um. What do you 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:54.160 call it? The baked looks like? Yeah, I mean each 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:56.440 of their own. Everybody can do their own thing. But 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:58.559 I just don't think it brings out the beauty. I 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:00.760 think it just dulls your face down and you can't 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:05.360 see who you are. Um. But yeah, less is more 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:08.240 in terms of makeup and skincare, I think is just 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:12.600 so important. A great I cream, a great hyrolymic acid serum, 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:16.520 love that stuff. Vitamin c um and taking care of 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:19.559 yourself on the inside. To M. Max and I are 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:24.960 huge on vitamins, huge on collagen, huge on peptides. We're 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:27.760 on a big pep type program for the last eight 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:30.680 nine years where talk about peptides because I know a 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:34.400 lot about college and I don't know a lot about peptides. Well, 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:40.160 we we have been injecting ourselves with pep pipes for years, um, 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:44.439 you know, for anti aging benefits, for other health benefits 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:47.719 like performance benefits with dancing and stuff like that, to 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:51.880 keep our um muscles going, to keep us from fatiguing 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:55.880 and stuff like that. Um it triggers the pecuitary gland 0:13:55.920 --> 0:14:00.360 to release um more of the hormone that keeps you young. 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:05.280 And it's natural. Um It's it's nothing that can hurt 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:08.160 you in the long run, but um it definitely has 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:11.640 made a huge impact on my dance career. Um. You know, 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:14.880 I'm thirty six right now, and I feel like I've 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:17.959 come back to the show after it was four days 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:22.600 between my phone call of you're not pregnant to being 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:24.880 back on the show. Hey, you've got a partner. You've 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:26.960 got to be here to rehearse for eight hours a day, 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:29.200 blah blah blah. And I'm like, oh my gosh, can 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:32.400 I do it? You know, getting back into the routine. 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:36.800 I feel like my body is so um like I've 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:39.880 really done well with my upkeep, with the years of 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:41.960 training and stuff like that, with the peptides that has 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:44.120 helped me. I danced with twin year old you know 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:47.880 last night. I'm dancing right next to twenty year old girls. Women. 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:52.520 I feel like I keep up, I hold my own still, 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:54.800 and I don't look like the old woman off the bunch. 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:58.160 Thirty six is a very young woman. So let me 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:00.360 just tell you thirty six is still very are young. 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:03.200 But so you don't just go into the health food 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:06.000 store or Sephora and say, can I have some peptides? 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:08.760 So what do you get? Where do you get them? 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:14.480 What kind of a doctor? Um? Special doctors one that 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:20.000 specializes in um, you know, microbiome that you know, our 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:23.240 our doctor who has done you know, our surgeries. I 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:28.280 had another ankle surgery, Max that's had knee surgery, tote surgeries. UM, 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:32.000 he's also a molecular biologist, so he specializes in peptides. 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:36.000 And so yeah, we've we've been on that road and 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:38.440 that train with him for many years now. And you know, 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:41.360 I've got to say it is the fountain of youth 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:45.480 because my husband, he literally he looks the same as 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:47.840 when he did when he was there and he's now 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:53.960 forty two. So, UM, I really do credit everything to peptides. No, 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:56.440 I must, I must get this doctor's name one day. 0:15:56.440 --> 0:16:00.360 It's very I'm someone that is very interested in you know, 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:04.480 things that make you feel better, look better without you know, 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:09.440 doing any harm. So yes, it's without all of the 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:12.640 nasty stuff. It's you know, it's not engecting botox and 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:16.680 fillers in to make you look more plump. It's just peptides. Yeah, 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:20.840 you don't do botox or fillers or anything. I do botox, 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:24.160 I do. I started when I was thirty four. Um, 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:29.280 I hesitated telling people that because you know of the 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:32.120 stigma of you know, oh you do botox because you're 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:34.920 in Hollywood and stuff like that. But I found that 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:40.240 with HDTV UM being on camera. I felt that by 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:42.760 the age of thirty four, I was like, come on, Peter, 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:46.160 bite the bullet, do it type of thing. So I 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:49.600 do do botox. Yeah, no fillers though, so do you. 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:52.080 I mean it doesn't by looking at you, I can't 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:57.520 imagine that you struggle seeing yourself on TV and you know, 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:03.040 not liking what you see. Is that something you've experienced. 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:08.040 I mean in terms of face and embody. Absolutely, um more, 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:12.639 I would say more so with my the way I 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:14.919 have looked at my body over the years. I have 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:19.800 just tried not to criticize myself as much. Coming from 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:23.320 a ballet background. It was ingrained in me with how 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:26.359 thin that I needed to be. At the age of ten, 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:29.520 they would tell me that I put on weight. Um. 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:31.840 I remember the day that I came back from a 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:35.639 holiday and my teeth. My Russian ballet teacher said to me, oh, Peter, 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:37.879 you know kind of pinched my side. And I was 0:17:37.960 --> 0:17:42.439 ten years you know, those things kind of stay with 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:44.120 you for the rest of your life. And I didn't 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:48.240 even remember those things until I I had moments with 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:50.800 my body where I'm like, oh my gosh, I'm verging 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:53.280 on an eating disorder right now. Like I need to stop, 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:55.280 you know, I need to stop having these thoughts. I 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:58.720 either have body dysmorphia or you know, I'm becoming anorexic 0:17:58.880 --> 0:18:00.840 or believe me or whatever you to call it. It 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:06.119 all stemmed from chime with stuff. And yes, I have 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:09.359 had many moments because my weight for weights all the time, 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:13.440 you know, because you're a human. Yeah, because you're a human. Okay, 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:16.199 it's hard, you know when you're on the show, Like 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:18.439 right now, I feel really good about myself, you know, 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:21.719 I'm I'm fit, I'm lean. Um, But as soon as 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:24.960 the show ends, I within a month, I put on 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:29.240 five to seven pounds, probably more to the seven pounds 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:33.720 and it's fine, but it's like keeping keeping yourself looking 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:36.359 nice in between the seasons of Dancing with the Stars, 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:39.080 you know, is difficult too, because you just don't get 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:42.080 the cardio that you get whilst you're on the show. Yeah, 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:44.200 so what is the cardio like, what's your what are 0:18:44.240 --> 0:18:48.040 the trainings like on the show? Well, the show is 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:52.320 just strictly dancing. But you know, right right now, I 0:18:52.359 --> 0:18:54.359 don't need to go to the gym as much because 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:56.680 I'm doing so much cardio and dancing and I don't 0:18:56.720 --> 0:18:59.960 want to lose any more weight. Um. But in the offseason, 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:03.760 and I definitely have to get that gym membership, go boxing, 0:19:04.320 --> 0:19:07.520 go to pilates, you know, keep the strength training. I 0:19:07.600 --> 0:19:12.880 do everything to try to keep my weight att Yeah. 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:15.320 So when so, when you're doing Dancing with the Stars, 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:18.520 how many months does it take out of the ear 0:19:19.720 --> 0:19:22.280 h It's about three and a half three and a 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:35.639 half months solidly, no days off. It's full on the 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:38.600 rest of your besides your son. I know you have 0:19:39.240 --> 0:19:42.639 a little makeup line or a start of a makeup line, 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:46.040 so yeah, beauty brand, So tell me about that. So 0:19:46.080 --> 0:19:49.480 I wanted to create a tanning line that um was 0:19:49.520 --> 0:19:51.720 good for the stage and also good for everyday life 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:54.280 because as you know, like you've seen the orange people 0:19:54.320 --> 0:19:58.359 walk outside really bad. UM. And I could never find 0:19:58.400 --> 0:20:01.359 something on the market that looks amazing on the stage 0:20:01.359 --> 0:20:04.919 that didn't look horrible and like an umpa lumper on 0:20:05.680 --> 0:20:09.320 you know. Three. So I created my own, which they're 0:20:09.520 --> 0:20:13.320 there brown, they don't go orange, they drive super um. 0:20:13.359 --> 0:20:17.159 This is the three tanning mooses, the light medium of 0:20:17.240 --> 0:20:21.440 the dark. They go on with my my mit. It's 0:20:21.480 --> 0:20:25.280 like a velveting mit and it has like a plastic 0:20:25.359 --> 0:20:28.199 inside so it doesn't go through your hands, and it 0:20:28.280 --> 0:20:33.159 honestly makes it streak free. It's so easy, it's you 0:20:33.200 --> 0:20:37.399 can't score for it, you can't go. And then we 0:20:37.480 --> 0:20:41.280 have the tanning mist and that is like a professional 0:20:41.359 --> 0:20:44.720 grade tanning nozzle. It's honestly like you're at the spray 0:20:44.720 --> 0:20:47.679 tanning booth, um and you can. I love this for 0:20:47.720 --> 0:20:50.840 the face because I think it's better than using the 0:20:50.880 --> 0:20:53.080 mooses for the face. Yeah, but you don't just spray 0:20:53.119 --> 0:20:57.800 it on your face. Yeah, yeah, spray to close your eyes. 0:20:57.880 --> 0:21:01.560 How do you do that? Yeah? Your roll your lips 0:21:01.560 --> 0:21:05.360 in Yeah, and then just do that all over. Yeah, 0:21:05.440 --> 0:21:08.959 and then don't you have to blend it in? No? No, 0:21:09.040 --> 0:21:12.800 I mean if you've held it too long in one spot. Yeah, 0:21:13.200 --> 0:21:15.440 but I mean you've got to keep it moving around 0:21:15.480 --> 0:21:17.880 and down your neck area. And it looks so natural. 0:21:18.240 --> 0:21:21.399 And then we did an extended met for the back, 0:21:22.440 --> 0:21:26.280 so you know, there were so many people that couldn't 0:21:26.280 --> 0:21:29.800 get their back and they're like Peter making that. So 0:21:32.080 --> 0:21:34.800 where do you sell it? We sell it online in 0:21:34.960 --> 0:21:42.160 selected beauty stores, spas retailers America and in Canada right now, 0:21:42.720 --> 0:21:48.879 so h and how how big is your team? Um? Well, 0:21:49.040 --> 0:21:53.960 we're restructuring right now, so um, it's it's about five 0:21:54.040 --> 0:21:58.040 to seven people west. But yeah, we're just about to 0:21:58.080 --> 0:22:01.679 make like a move with partnerships and stuff like that. 0:22:01.800 --> 0:22:04.600 So yeah, it's interesting. It's going to be cool. Oh cool. 0:22:04.640 --> 0:22:06.679 I would love to check it out to find to 0:22:06.800 --> 0:22:09.959 find self tanners that aren't orange would be a game changer. 0:22:10.840 --> 0:22:13.600 Oh yeah, I'll send you some. Just let me know 0:22:13.640 --> 0:22:16.320 where to send. I will and I'll send you some 0:22:16.400 --> 0:22:19.240 Jones Road because I don't know if you've tried. I 0:22:19.320 --> 0:22:21.920 have not, yea, So I will send you you know, 0:22:22.200 --> 0:22:25.040 the some of the Jones Road and UM, you know, 0:22:25.080 --> 0:22:28.640 I'm happy to help if there's any any advice since 0:22:28.720 --> 0:22:33.520 this is my second my second beauty yes please, I 0:22:33.520 --> 0:22:36.760 mean you're the mogul like when I you know, I 0:22:36.800 --> 0:22:39.439 obviously know who you are. Um, and I love that 0:22:39.520 --> 0:22:41.919 tape of your products. But I couldn't believe I was 0:22:41.920 --> 0:22:44.280 doing a podcast with you. I'm like, I'm doing it 0:22:44.359 --> 0:22:51.080 with Bobby Brown, the makeup artists I said. I was like, yes, 0:22:51.160 --> 0:22:53.240 I've had I've had a lot of different like you 0:22:53.280 --> 0:22:56.600 know pieces, and right now, I think what I find 0:22:56.640 --> 0:22:59.840 so interesting and why this podcast really resonates with me 0:23:00.359 --> 0:23:03.480 is because like, for example, you're a dancer, you're you're 0:23:03.520 --> 0:23:07.360 on the show, but now you're a beauty entrepreneur and 0:23:07.560 --> 0:23:11.800 you know, you're a spokesperson for you know whatever, And 0:23:11.840 --> 0:23:13.800 so I just find that right now, you're allowed to 0:23:13.840 --> 0:23:16.280 be many different things and you don't have to just 0:23:16.320 --> 0:23:19.000 fit into a hole. So, you know, I think it's 0:23:19.000 --> 0:23:21.879 it's neat man, And I think it's amazing for people 0:23:21.880 --> 0:23:25.160 out there to realize there's nothing you can't do, no 0:23:25.200 --> 0:23:27.880 matter what your age or what your ability is. If 0:23:28.280 --> 0:23:29.960 there's only one way to do it, which is just 0:23:30.040 --> 0:23:34.000 to try it. Absolutely, I fully agree, and I wish 0:23:34.040 --> 0:23:36.280 I had done this sooner and listen to my gut. 0:23:36.400 --> 0:23:39.600 That's like my number one piece of advice is that 0:23:39.960 --> 0:23:42.320 I was I was nervous. I was scared to have 0:23:42.440 --> 0:23:44.760