August 26, 2024 • 20 mins
Hi everyone! I hope you’ve missed seeing me on TV because I’m back! In this episode, I talk about my brand-new docu-follow, “Chiquis Sin Filtro.” I’ll give you an inside look at what to expect, why I decided to go through with this project and what it was like being an executive producer. It’s streaming on ViX now and I can’t wait to hear what you think!
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hello, everyone, Welcome back to your favorite podcast, Cheeky's and Chill.
I'm your host Cheeky's and I hope you all are
enjoying the last Monday of the month. Today has been
kind of a long day for me, but I'm happy
to be ending my day with you guys. As some
of you might know, I'm back on TV. My show
Cheeky Snekiritro is now streaming on bigs You guys. It's
a behind the scenes look into my life and feature
(00:25):
some of the most important people in my life as well,
and I'm also taking you on a trip to my past.
So today I want to talk about all of that
and what it's like being back on TV and why
I decided to film it in Spanish. So here we go,
Cheeky sin Philtro. Okay, So first off, I want to
say it is not a reality show. It is a
(00:47):
doc You follow a docu series. Now, what is the difference,
you may ask yourself, because a lot of people are
saying it's a reality show. As you may know some
of you, a lot of you, or maybe you don't know.
To one of my new listeners, I had a reality show. Actually,
I've been on a few reality shows. I started it
off back in two thousand and nine with the reality
show called Cheek's and Rock Scene, and then we went
(01:07):
into a family reality show. Anyways, the point is we
did ten years of reality and then a lot of
stuff happened, which you guys can check out the episode
because I talked about it in detail. I have an
episode on it here on Cheeky's and Chill podcast. And anyways,
I was very hesitant about starting this new venture because
I did not want it to be like a reality show.
(01:29):
When they told me it was more of a doc
you follow, I was like, Okay, this is perfect, So
what's the difference in reality? Yes, it was the reality
of our life, but there were a lot of made
up scenarios or reenacting. A lot of reenacting. They would
put us in situations. It'd be like, okay, I'm gonna
put you guys in Hawaii, and yes we would be ourselves.
(01:51):
But it wasn't like we had a plan to go
to Hawaii. They took us to Hawaii, if that makes
sense with a doc you follow. The differences that one
of them is that I get to talk to the camera.
I am inviting you guys I'm talking to the camera.
I don't ignore it. It's not like the cameras aren't there.
I speak to the cameras, I look at the camera.
And also the cameras are following my day to day,
(02:14):
like if I am just sitting at home all day,
they will be there until something happens. If I get
a phone call, of course, they have my agenda. So
I'm like, Okay, I'm gonna be doing this. Okay, the
cameras can be here. Sometimes the cameras weren't there. A
lot of the times they were, and I wanted it
to be in Spanish because all of my reality shows
before we're in English. Every time I've been on television,
(02:34):
it's been English, So I thought, I want to make
this very different and make it a point that it's
very different. So we did Spanish. And also because my
plan for twenty twenty four was that I really wanted
to go into Mexico, which is why we chose Vix,
because Vix is a very important app in Mexico and Colombia,
and those are places that I want people to get
(02:57):
to know me as Cheeky's as the artist, the woman
behind the music. So I told myself Kio Conquista Mexico.
I want to conquer Mexico. I want to enter their
hearts because I feel like they don't really know me,
They're barely getting to know me. And I have a
very important show at the end of the year November third,
Alito na Snad, which is a very important place and
(03:19):
stage in Mexico, and all of this kind of just
it wasn't planned. It just happened, and I feel like
God has been aligning everything for me and it was
something that came up. I'm also an executive producer, so
it is the first show under my production company called
Busy Be Productions, and this is our first project. So
(03:40):
I also thought in that way for people to trust
me and trust this Busy Bee Productions, right, I also
wanted to start this new venture in my life as
a producer with something that I'm in to gain trust,
to show what this production company is going to be
all about out and I am completely raw. For those
(04:03):
of you that may not know what Sinhiedro is, it's
just basically no filter. Cheeky is no filter, and that's
what it is. I feel like I've never shown this
side of me again with reality TV, we were put
in certain situations and you kind of had time to prepare,
I guess, and with the doc you follow. I swear
(04:24):
you guys. Sometimes I was like, oh my gosh, the
cameras are here. Well, fuck it, whatever, this is really happening.
I'm getting a phone call, I'm seeing a text message,
I'm watching an interview for the first time, and you
guys get my absolute, natural, very organic, authentic reaction. A
lot of people say, I've never seen you. Magicis You're
always in a good mood. You're always positive most of
(04:46):
the time. I am. I can probably say ninety three
percent of the time. I'm very happy. I am one
of those unknowing people that it's just like my brother
always tells me, Mikey, it's like, you're just always so
damn positive, Like yeah, because I choose to be. Because
it's all about how we choose to look at things
and how we react to certain things. So anyways, you
(05:07):
will see me upset on chikisinfildrom and I'm completely showing
my life the way it is without a filter, especially
in a world that everything is a filter. And I
don't mean like an actual filter, like the kind that
we all use on stories and you know, I use
them too. I'm talking about like everyone wants to paint
(05:28):
this beautiful picture on Instagram and only show the beautiful
sides of everything, and this is a way of kind
of just reminding people like there is power and being vulnerable,
and we've talked about it a lot here on the podcast,
and that's something that I'm super passionate about, and that's
why I wanted to kind of remind people of who
I really am. Or maybe the people that are gonna
(05:49):
meet me for the first time, especially in Mexico, they've
probably heard so many different stories about me and have
this negative perspective of who I am because of maybe
the family that I come from, the stories that they've heard.
Now they get to see who I really am, and
if they're going to like me, I want people to
like me for who I am, not what they think,
not what they might see on Instagram. I feel like
(06:12):
I try to share and I'm very you know, transparent
on my social media, but there's only so much that
we can show there, you know, And that's why I
wanted to just show every side of myself, of my life,
my relationship, me as a sister, yes, as an artist.
It's an important part because I also want people to
start respecting me for the music, for my profession. And
(06:35):
that's another thing. With my relationship, I've kept it pretty private.
I don't show as much as I have with past relationships.
So I think this is a way of you guys
seeing a different side or a side that I haven't
shown in a long time, you know. But again going
back to that whole thing of just like the world,
just living in a filter and living in this fantasy
(06:55):
world and just trying to show that everything is perfect
and sometimes even and pretending to be something that they're not,
showing off things that aren't really theirs. And I've seen
it a lot. So anyways, that's why I wanted to
call it Chiky Sin Pinro because I'm like, here, there's
no filter. I can't put a cute little filter on
my face, Like you're gonna see me without makeup. You're
gonna see my hair just freaking crazy. I had gotten
(07:17):
like a little treatment on my face as well, so
you guys are going to see that. Like just everything
that I was going through in those like almost nine
months of filming we started filming last year, and a
lot of things happen in the beginning of the year.
The first six months of this year were chaotic, you guys,
and definitely gonna show you all of that, even things
(07:37):
that you didn't see or I didn't share on Instagram.
Maybe I shared it on the podcast, but not even
in detail. And now you're gonna be able to see it.
And a lot of the things that you guys are
gonna see on Chiky Sinfilterro. I've kind of mentioned a
lot of these things in my books, but a lot
of people don't like to read. So this is a
way of giving a visual to my books, to the
(08:00):
story of my life because again I also take you
guys on a trip to my past and show you
guys where I come from, and take you to the
homes that I was raised in the cities, and I
talk about beautiful memories and things that have now changed
and now are very different, and ugh, it's just a lot.
I mean now that I think about it and I
(08:22):
see the episodes, because in the moment when it was happening,
I was kind of like, I know what I'm getting
myself into, I know what I want to do. I'm
an executive producer, fit like it is what it is.
But then when they started editing the episodes and I
was approving them as a talent as Cheeky's, I was like, dude,
I don't know if we should say this. This is
kind of crazy. But then my executive side, my executive
(08:45):
producer side, was like, okay, well it is what it is.
Let's do it. And the executive producer always won. I
really did enjoy being an executive producer. I think because
I have trusted so many people blindly and in a
way very like gullible and naive in my younger years.
(09:06):
I really liked having that creative control. And not because
I'm trying to hide anything or because it's easy to
just edit and remove things, because that's not the case.
But I did not really take anything out. There was
just like one little thing that I was like, okay,
that sounds a little too harsh, but I left most
of it in. I just took a little itsy bitsy part.
(09:27):
I was like, you know, take that little part out
because it's not entirely true. I was just upset, but
leave the rest because it is pretty honest and harsh,
and some people might get a little upset or not.
Some one particular person won't get very hurt, but those
are consequences to their actions in the moment I meant it.
But then watching it back, I was like, oh my god,
(09:49):
that's that. I'm not trying to hurt that person's feelings
because I was upset whatever, So I just a little
itsy bitsy little part. Other than that, I left all
of it in and there's so much footage, you guys,
I could probably make like, I don't know, twenty episodes
at least, But it just felt good to know that
if I wanted to talk more or share more or
(10:10):
I don't know, I could do that. So that's what
I liked that finally, after so many years of give
and giving giving my truth being transparent, it can't be
manipulated for it to benefit someone else. Now it's how
I want it, how I want to express it, and
I have creative control and that felt really nice. And
(10:34):
if there's anything that I can change, wow, it would
be that the cameras could be with me a little
bit more, just because there's so much happening, and but
I don't know if I would change anything, to be honest, like,
I'm pretty happy with the results with everything that I'm
(10:56):
talking about does it make me a little nervous, Yes,
because because I talk about some pretty deep things. And again,
I'm not trying to disturb disrupt anyone's life, but this
is my truth and these are things that really happen
in my life, and I feel like I have the
right to express my feelings and my truth. So I
(11:20):
think I'm just nervous that I don't want to hurt people.
That's not like what my intention at all. Ever, And
now that I'm grown up and more mature and I've
lost the fear of what people will think and if
people are gonna like me or not, like it gives
you this different type of power of like, this is
who I am, take it or leave it. And that's
(11:40):
kind of where I'm at. And that's why i did
Cheeky sein Finkittal because I'm like, I'm letting it all
hang out and this is me. We started filming last
year twenty twenty three, around September, and then a little
more in November, and then we took a little break,
and then we started up again in January of this year,
(12:02):
twenty twenty four. And at first, I think maybe like
the first week or so, it was a little different.
I don't really like a lot of people in my home,
so that was like, I'm like, oh, just like that.
Anal side of me was like, oh my gosh, my
floors like started thinking all this stuff. But then it
(12:24):
just went away and I was like, Okay, you guys here,
put on some little like shoe covers, and I was fine.
And then the guys, the camera guys there. I've known
them for a long time as well. I've worked with
them in the past, and I felt very comfortable. And again,
they weren't putting me in a situation like it wasn't
like say this or starting drama. It was just everything
(12:45):
that was happening. So that gave me a lot of
mental peace and just helped me relax a bit more. Yeah,
it's completely different from what I've done in the past,
especially in that area. And again, it was like I
knew when the cameras were going to be there and
what we were going to be doing because they're following
my agenda, Like what it is that I'm like actually doing,
you know. And guys, the comments that I've been receiving
(13:09):
have been so good. A lot of people have said,
oh my god, Chiki's I missed you on television. I
can see that you're a lot more mature, and I
do feel mature, and I feel ready, and I always
feel you know, people say, you know I was born
for this. I feel like I was born for this.
(13:29):
You know, I was born ready. But then a lot
of stuff happened in my life that made me even
more ready, more ready than I ever thought i'd be.
So when this opportunity came up and we were talking
about it at a round table in my office, I said,
you know what, there's nothing or anyone that I'm scared of.
I know my truth, I know who I am. I'm
(13:51):
not worried about what anyone else is going to think.
I'm not trying to make anyone look bad. If they
made themselves look bad and I'm talking about it and
I'm expressing my feelings about how I feel about it,
then that's another story. But am I intentionally trying to
make anyone look bad? Absolutely not. It's just not even
in my character. So the comments that I'd been receiving,
now people have watched four episodes, because every Friday, two
(14:15):
new episodes come out, So now there's four, and now
it's like now it's getting good. I was like, oh
my god, people were watching the first. In the second episode,
they're like, oh my god, I can't wait for the
third and the fourth. I'm like, Okay, once you get
to the fourth, that's when stuff starts getting real deep.
I feel like that's when it starts, you know. So
(14:35):
I was really excited to see that people were living
the first. In the second episode, when it launched, I
was in Miami doing promo. I did have this plan
of like, oh my god, I'm gonna get all my
friends and my siblings and we're gonna like, of course,
Emilio and watch it. But I was in Miami doing promo,
and when it came out, I was asleep, to be honest,
Like it was three in the morning in Miami and
it premiered on vis at twelve am on the sixteenth,
(14:59):
I believe if it was of August and I was
in Miami, so I had to watch it on my
phone on the ViXS app and alone in bed. But
that was fine too because I had already watched the
first In the second episode, I watched them all. It's
just so different watching it, like not on a link
and more on like the actual app or on television.
But my friends have loved it. I've received a lot
(15:22):
of great messages and soon enough, you guys will be
able to binge. I'm more of like a binge watcher,
but I know Vix wanted to kind of like build
the anticipation and it's been working because there's a lot
of cliffhangers. So that's why we decided to go ahead
and do two new episodes every Friday. So there's a
total of ten episodes guys, and there are conversations of
(15:44):
having a second heart. I'm still not entirely sure yet.
I'm just taking it day by day. I don't want
to make an impulsive decision. I want to wait a
little bit before making that decision. A final decision, should
I say, you guys will seem Emilio, my partner, my husband,
(16:10):
my team, my friends, my real friends. A couple of
them couldn't come out, but like the main core of
my friends were in there, my siblings as well. In
a lot of interviews, people asked me like, was it
difficult to get them on board? And I think in
the beginning, some of my friends, because they express themselves
(16:33):
better in English and Emilio does too, were kind of
hesitant because of that. But then when I told them,
I'm like, hey, you can speak English because ninety five
percent of it is Spanish. That five percent, or I'm
having conversations with Emilio or some of my friends, or
something's come out in English. Like I wanted to feel
that freedom of just being myself and also the people
in my life. I didn't want them to pretend. So
(16:54):
I'm like, if you have to say something in English,
Johnny or my brother Mikey Jenica, because they're a little
bit like more hesitant to speak in Spanish. I gave
them the green light. And that's what I wanted more
than anything, you know. So I also wanted to be
organic with myself. I speak a lot of Spanish at
work and interviews and stuff, so I wasn't very worried
about it, but I did want to have that liberty
(17:15):
of if I can't say a certain word in Spanish,
I'm just gonna go ahead and say it in English.
So that's what you guys will see, and all my
conversations with the media, because we don't speak to each
other on a daily basis in Spanish, we're in English.
And that's why after he was like, okay, cool, because
he's not like a person that likes to be in
front of a camera. He's a photographer. He likes the'
a videographer, so he's always behind the camera and he
(17:38):
prefers it that way, which is something I love. So
I like that. When I told him, he's like, oh, dude,
I don't know, like are you sure? But and I
like that because to me, it's like, Okay, he's not
trying to like, you know, I've just had past relationships
that were all for it, and I'm like, oh, and
it was created. I created a monster. So I kind
(17:58):
of like that. So he's in Chiekisen Fildro when he
has to be like our wedding guys, you guys will
be able to see it on there. It's towards the end,
So nine and ten, you know, those are the episodes
to look forward to if you want to know what
the wedding was like. But if he didn't have to
be there, or if he was just in the background,
you know what I mean. It's very all, very organic,
(18:19):
but everyone in my life, including my siblings, everyone was
totally for it, and I really appreciate that because it
just makes everything easier I don't have to like exclude anyone.
I can use real people in my life and that's
what makes it fun, you know, because it's real. AnyWho.
I hope that you guys have enjoyed this episode and
(18:40):
hopefully you take the time to watch Chieky seem Fildro
on vix. There are four episodes available now and again,
like I said, every Friday to new episodes. So let
me know what you guys think. Leave me your comments
if you want on Dear Cheeky's, leave me any questions
you may have that come up when you're watching. And
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kind of talk about this a little bit more on
a one on one the way we do here on
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Hello, everyone, Welcome back to your favorite podcast, Cheeky's and Chill.
I'm your host Cheeky's and I hope you all are
enjoying the last Monday of the month. Today has been
kind of a long day for me, but I'm happy
to be ending my day with you guys. As some
of you might know, I'm back on TV. My show
Cheeky Snekiritro is now streaming on bigs You guys. It's
a behind the scenes look into my life and feature
(00:25):
some of the most important people in my life as well,
and I'm also taking you on a trip to my past.
So today I want to talk about all of that
and what it's like being back on TV and why
I decided to film it in Spanish. So here we go,
Cheeky sin Philtro. Okay, So first off, I want to
say it is not a reality show. It is a
(00:47):
doc You follow a docu series. Now, what is the difference,
you may ask yourself, because a lot of people are
saying it's a reality show. As you may know some
of you, a lot of you, or maybe you don't know.
To one of my new listeners, I had a reality show. Actually,
I've been on a few reality shows. I started it
off back in two thousand and nine with the reality
show called Cheek's and Rock Scene, and then we went
(01:07):
into a family reality show. Anyways, the point is we
did ten years of reality and then a lot of
stuff happened, which you guys can check out the episode
because I talked about it in detail. I have an
episode on it here on Cheeky's and Chill podcast. And anyways,
I was very hesitant about starting this new venture because
I did not want it to be like a reality show.
(01:29):
When they told me it was more of a doc
you follow, I was like, Okay, this is perfect, So
what's the difference in reality? Yes, it was the reality
of our life, but there were a lot of made
up scenarios or reenacting. A lot of reenacting. They would
put us in situations. It'd be like, okay, I'm gonna
put you guys in Hawaii, and yes we would be ourselves.
(01:51):
But it wasn't like we had a plan to go
to Hawaii. They took us to Hawaii, if that makes
sense with a doc you follow. The differences that one
of them is that I get to talk to the camera.
I am inviting you guys I'm talking to the camera.
I don't ignore it. It's not like the cameras aren't there.
I speak to the cameras, I look at the camera.
And also the cameras are following my day to day,
(02:14):
like if I am just sitting at home all day,
they will be there until something happens. If I get
a phone call, of course, they have my agenda. So
I'm like, Okay, I'm gonna be doing this. Okay, the
cameras can be here. Sometimes the cameras weren't there. A
lot of the times they were, and I wanted it
to be in Spanish because all of my reality shows
before we're in English. Every time I've been on television,
(02:34):
it's been English, So I thought, I want to make
this very different and make it a point that it's
very different. So we did Spanish. And also because my
plan for twenty twenty four was that I really wanted
to go into Mexico, which is why we chose Vix,
because Vix is a very important app in Mexico and Colombia,
and those are places that I want people to get
(02:57):
to know me as Cheeky's as the artist, the woman
behind the music. So I told myself Kio Conquista Mexico.
I want to conquer Mexico. I want to enter their
hearts because I feel like they don't really know me,
They're barely getting to know me. And I have a
very important show at the end of the year November third,
Alito na Snad, which is a very important place and
(03:19):
stage in Mexico, and all of this kind of just
it wasn't planned. It just happened, and I feel like
God has been aligning everything for me and it was
something that came up. I'm also an executive producer, so
it is the first show under my production company called
Busy Be Productions, and this is our first project. So
(03:40):
I also thought in that way for people to trust
me and trust this Busy Bee Productions, right, I also
wanted to start this new venture in my life as
a producer with something that I'm in to gain trust,
to show what this production company is going to be
all about out and I am completely raw. For those
(04:03):
of you that may not know what Sinhiedro is, it's
just basically no filter. Cheeky is no filter, and that's
what it is. I feel like I've never shown this
side of me again with reality TV, we were put
in certain situations and you kind of had time to prepare,
I guess, and with the doc you follow. I swear
(04:24):
you guys. Sometimes I was like, oh my gosh, the
cameras are here. Well, fuck it, whatever, this is really happening.
I'm getting a phone call, I'm seeing a text message,
I'm watching an interview for the first time, and you
guys get my absolute, natural, very organic, authentic reaction. A
lot of people say, I've never seen you. Magicis You're
always in a good mood. You're always positive most of
(04:46):
the time. I am. I can probably say ninety three
percent of the time. I'm very happy. I am one
of those unknowing people that it's just like my brother
always tells me, Mikey, it's like, you're just always so
damn positive, Like yeah, because I choose to be. Because
it's all about how we choose to look at things
and how we react to certain things. So anyways, you
(05:07):
will see me upset on chikisinfildrom and I'm completely showing
my life the way it is without a filter, especially
in a world that everything is a filter. And I
don't mean like an actual filter, like the kind that
we all use on stories and you know, I use
them too. I'm talking about like everyone wants to paint
(05:28):
this beautiful picture on Instagram and only show the beautiful
sides of everything, and this is a way of kind
of just reminding people like there is power and being vulnerable,
and we've talked about it a lot here on the podcast,
and that's something that I'm super passionate about, and that's
why I wanted to kind of remind people of who
I really am. Or maybe the people that are gonna
(05:49):
meet me for the first time, especially in Mexico, they've
probably heard so many different stories about me and have
this negative perspective of who I am because of maybe
the family that I come from, the stories that they've heard.
Now they get to see who I really am, and
if they're going to like me, I want people to
like me for who I am, not what they think,
not what they might see on Instagram. I feel like
(06:12):
I try to share and I'm very you know, transparent
on my social media, but there's only so much that
we can show there, you know, And that's why I
wanted to just show every side of myself, of my life,
my relationship, me as a sister, yes, as an artist.
It's an important part because I also want people to
start respecting me for the music, for my profession. And
(06:35):
that's another thing. With my relationship, I've kept it pretty private.
I don't show as much as I have with past relationships.
So I think this is a way of you guys
seeing a different side or a side that I haven't
shown in a long time, you know. But again going
back to that whole thing of just like the world,
just living in a filter and living in this fantasy
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world and just trying to show that everything is perfect
and sometimes even and pretending to be something that they're not,
showing off things that aren't really theirs. And I've seen
it a lot. So anyways, that's why I wanted to
call it Chiky Sin Pinro because I'm like, here, there's
no filter. I can't put a cute little filter on
my face, Like you're gonna see me without makeup. You're
gonna see my hair just freaking crazy. I had gotten
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like a little treatment on my face as well, so
you guys are going to see that. Like just everything
that I was going through in those like almost nine
months of filming we started filming last year, and a
lot of things happen in the beginning of the year.
The first six months of this year were chaotic, you guys,
and definitely gonna show you all of that, even things
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that you didn't see or I didn't share on Instagram.
Maybe I shared it on the podcast, but not even
in detail. And now you're gonna be able to see it.
And a lot of the things that you guys are
gonna see on Chiky Sinfilterro. I've kind of mentioned a
lot of these things in my books, but a lot
of people don't like to read. So this is a
way of giving a visual to my books, to the
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story of my life because again I also take you
guys on a trip to my past and show you
guys where I come from, and take you to the
homes that I was raised in the cities, and I
talk about beautiful memories and things that have now changed
and now are very different, and ugh, it's just a lot.
I mean now that I think about it and I
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see the episodes, because in the moment when it was happening,
I was kind of like, I know what I'm getting
myself into, I know what I want to do. I'm
an executive producer, fit like it is what it is.
But then when they started editing the episodes and I
was approving them as a talent as Cheeky's, I was like, dude,
I don't know if we should say this. This is
kind of crazy. But then my executive side, my executive
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producer side, was like, okay, well it is what it is.
Let's do it. And the executive producer always won. I
really did enjoy being an executive producer. I think because
I have trusted so many people blindly and in a
way very like gullible and naive in my younger years.
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I really liked having that creative control. And not because
I'm trying to hide anything or because it's easy to
just edit and remove things, because that's not the case.
But I did not really take anything out. There was
just like one little thing that I was like, okay,
that sounds a little too harsh, but I left most
of it in. I just took a little itsy bitsy part.
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I was like, you know, take that little part out
because it's not entirely true. I was just upset, but
leave the rest because it is pretty honest and harsh,
and some people might get a little upset or not.
Some one particular person won't get very hurt, but those
are consequences to their actions in the moment I meant it.
But then watching it back, I was like, oh my god,
(09:49):
that's that. I'm not trying to hurt that person's feelings
because I was upset whatever, So I just a little
itsy bitsy little part. Other than that, I left all
of it in and there's so much footage, you guys,
I could probably make like, I don't know, twenty episodes
at least, But it just felt good to know that
if I wanted to talk more or share more or
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I don't know, I could do that. So that's what
I liked that finally, after so many years of give
and giving giving my truth being transparent, it can't be
manipulated for it to benefit someone else. Now it's how
I want it, how I want to express it, and
I have creative control and that felt really nice. And
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if there's anything that I can change, wow, it would
be that the cameras could be with me a little
bit more, just because there's so much happening, and but
I don't know if I would change anything, to be honest, like,
I'm pretty happy with the results with everything that I'm
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talking about does it make me a little nervous, Yes,
because because I talk about some pretty deep things. And again,
I'm not trying to disturb disrupt anyone's life, but this
is my truth and these are things that really happen
in my life, and I feel like I have the
right to express my feelings and my truth. So I
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think I'm just nervous that I don't want to hurt people.
That's not like what my intention at all. Ever, And
now that I'm grown up and more mature and I've
lost the fear of what people will think and if
people are gonna like me or not, like it gives
you this different type of power of like, this is
who I am, take it or leave it. And that's
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kind of where I'm at. And that's why i did
Cheeky sein Finkittal because I'm like, I'm letting it all
hang out and this is me. We started filming last
year twenty twenty three, around September, and then a little
more in November, and then we took a little break,
and then we started up again in January of this year,
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twenty twenty four. And at first, I think maybe like
the first week or so, it was a little different.
I don't really like a lot of people in my home,
so that was like, I'm like, oh, just like that.
Anal side of me was like, oh my gosh, my
floors like started thinking all this stuff. But then it
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just went away and I was like, Okay, you guys here,
put on some little like shoe covers, and I was fine.
And then the guys, the camera guys there. I've known
them for a long time as well. I've worked with
them in the past, and I felt very comfortable. And again,
they weren't putting me in a situation like it wasn't
like say this or starting drama. It was just everything
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that was happening. So that gave me a lot of
mental peace and just helped me relax a bit more. Yeah,
it's completely different from what I've done in the past,
especially in that area. And again, it was like I
knew when the cameras were going to be there and
what we were going to be doing because they're following
my agenda, Like what it is that I'm like actually doing,
you know. And guys, the comments that I've been receiving
(13:09):
have been so good. A lot of people have said,
oh my god, Chiki's I missed you on television. I
can see that you're a lot more mature, and I
do feel mature, and I feel ready, and I always
feel you know, people say, you know I was born
for this. I feel like I was born for this.
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You know, I was born ready. But then a lot
of stuff happened in my life that made me even
more ready, more ready than I ever thought i'd be.
So when this opportunity came up and we were talking
about it at a round table in my office, I said,
you know what, there's nothing or anyone that I'm scared of.
I know my truth, I know who I am. I'm
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not worried about what anyone else is going to think.
I'm not trying to make anyone look bad. If they
made themselves look bad and I'm talking about it and
I'm expressing my feelings about how I feel about it,
then that's another story. But am I intentionally trying to
make anyone look bad? Absolutely not. It's just not even
in my character. So the comments that I'd been receiving,
now people have watched four episodes, because every Friday, two
(14:15):
new episodes come out, So now there's four, and now
it's like now it's getting good. I was like, oh
my god, people were watching the first. In the second episode,
they're like, oh my god, I can't wait for the
third and the fourth. I'm like, Okay, once you get
to the fourth, that's when stuff starts getting real deep.
I feel like that's when it starts, you know. So
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I was really excited to see that people were living
the first. In the second episode, when it launched, I
was in Miami doing promo. I did have this plan
of like, oh my god, I'm gonna get all my
friends and my siblings and we're gonna like, of course,
Emilio and watch it. But I was in Miami doing promo,
and when it came out, I was asleep, to be honest,
Like it was three in the morning in Miami and
it premiered on vis at twelve am on the sixteenth,
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I believe if it was of August and I was
in Miami, so I had to watch it on my
phone on the ViXS app and alone in bed. But
that was fine too because I had already watched the
first In the second episode, I watched them all. It's
just so different watching it, like not on a link
and more on like the actual app or on television.
But my friends have loved it. I've received a lot
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of great messages and soon enough, you guys will be
able to binge. I'm more of like a binge watcher,
but I know Vix wanted to kind of like build
the anticipation and it's been working because there's a lot
of cliffhangers. So that's why we decided to go ahead
and do two new episodes every Friday. So there's a
total of ten episodes guys, and there are conversations of
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having a second heart. I'm still not entirely sure yet.
I'm just taking it day by day. I don't want
to make an impulsive decision. I want to wait a
little bit before making that decision. A final decision, should
I say, you guys will seem Emilio, my partner, my husband,
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my team, my friends, my real friends. A couple of
them couldn't come out, but like the main core of
my friends were in there, my siblings as well. In
a lot of interviews, people asked me like, was it
difficult to get them on board? And I think in
the beginning, some of my friends, because they express themselves
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better in English and Emilio does too, were kind of
hesitant because of that. But then when I told them,
I'm like, hey, you can speak English because ninety five
percent of it is Spanish. That five percent, or I'm
having conversations with Emilio or some of my friends, or
something's come out in English. Like I wanted to feel
that freedom of just being myself and also the people
in my life. I didn't want them to pretend. So
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I'm like, if you have to say something in English,
Johnny or my brother Mikey Jenica, because they're a little
bit like more hesitant to speak in Spanish. I gave
them the green light. And that's what I wanted more
than anything, you know. So I also wanted to be
organic with myself. I speak a lot of Spanish at
work and interviews and stuff, so I wasn't very worried
about it, but I did want to have that liberty
(17:15):
of if I can't say a certain word in Spanish,
I'm just gonna go ahead and say it in English.
So that's what you guys will see, and all my
conversations with the media, because we don't speak to each
other on a daily basis in Spanish, we're in English.
And that's why after he was like, okay, cool, because
he's not like a person that likes to be in
front of a camera. He's a photographer. He likes the'
a videographer, so he's always behind the camera and he
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prefers it that way, which is something I love. So
I like that. When I told him, he's like, oh, dude,
I don't know, like are you sure? But and I
like that because to me, it's like, Okay, he's not
trying to like, you know, I've just had past relationships
that were all for it, and I'm like, oh, and
it was created. I created a monster. So I kind
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of like that. So he's in Chiekisen Fildro when he
has to be like our wedding guys, you guys will
be able to see it on there. It's towards the end,
So nine and ten, you know, those are the episodes
to look forward to if you want to know what
the wedding was like. But if he didn't have to
be there, or if he was just in the background,
you know what I mean. It's very all, very organic,
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but everyone in my life, including my siblings, everyone was
totally for it, and I really appreciate that because it
just makes everything easier I don't have to like exclude anyone.
I can use real people in my life and that's
what makes it fun, you know, because it's real. AnyWho.
I hope that you guys have enjoyed this episode and
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hopefully you take the time to watch Chieky seem Fildro
on vix. There are four episodes available now and again,
like I said, every Friday to new episodes. So let
me know what you guys think. Leave me your comments
if you want on Dear Cheeky's, leave me any questions
you may have that come up when you're watching. And
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uh yeah, guys, I just felt that I needed to
kind of talk about this a little bit more on
a one on one the way we do here on
Cheeky's and chill and not like an interview setting. This
is this is us. So thank you. I love you guys,
Thank you for listening. Thank you for coming back each
and every week to listen, to learn, to grow and
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to become your best self. Los Quiro and I will
see you, hear you, catch you, or you'll hear me
anyways on the next episode. I love you guys. Nah
do you need advice on love, relationships, health emails? I'm
so excited to share with you that my Cheekys and
Chill podcast will have an extra episode drop each week.
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voice message. All you have to do is go to
speak pipe dot com, slash Cheeky's and Chill podcast and
record your questions. I can't wait to hear from you.
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