September 26, 2024 • 28 mins
PART ONE of the most magical experience I've ever had (short of childbirth): walking in Paris Fashion Week
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
Wow, have I been through an experience. So I think
it's important to mention that I only sweat the small stuff.
And what I know to be true, and what everyone
around me realizes, is that I place equal importance on
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things that would seem very different in importance to other
things proportionally. And what I mean is like what dish
we're ordering at a restaurant, to what caption I put
on a post, to what kind of cookie place we
go to first to try, to what drugstore lip gloss
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I put on is equally as important to me as
speaking in front of five thousand people or going on
the Today Show or a date, or walking a runway
in front of millions of people. Literally, like it's not
a joke, Like I have a very strange way of
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prioritizing things. Everything matters, Like everything matters equally very If
you do it, it matters. It doesn't matter how small
or how big it is. If you're making it in
the kitchen, you do you make it good or you
don't make it at all, like and you throw it
out if it's gross, Like you don't just settle. I
don't settle in any way. I don't settle in. I
won't settle in relationships or work or I'd rather just
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not do it. So I am a very big like
do it or don't type of person. And I'm really
not a gray. I'm a black or a white. So
that's hard sometimes because I'm obsessed with everything, but I
lose the plot because I focus on the smaller things
sometimes and don't realize the big things. Like I've been
in restaurants and there could be a seven forty seven
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that could could crash in through the ceiling and I
wouldn't notice it, but I would notice like some smudge
on the table.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
You know. I'm very myopic in that way.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
And also I kind of when people ask me if
I have the Emperor has no close thing, I think
I kind of do. I've always said no, but I
think I might because I maybe ironically don't think I'm worthy,
Like I know that I'm worthy, but I can never
believe that I'm worthy.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I know it.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I'm very confident, I'm not insecure, I'm not vain, but
I can never really believe that I'm worthy. Like knowing
it is different than believing it than feeling it in
your body. So, for example, when I got the MTV
like Lifetime Achievement Award. Someone had to let me know
that it really wasn't supposed to be for me. It
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was supposed to be for somebody else. But they couldn't though,
And I was like, who cares, I'm there. I don't
give a shit. But then we get there and it's
like a different MTV Awards, Like it's not the one
that like j Lo's at. It's like this other like
reality one that like snooky and like Kristin Cavalari's at,
which I was grateful and thrilled to be there. I'm
just saying, like, it's always like you're always a hair short,
you know, I'm always like it's always like you're there,
but like not really Like listen, I was on the
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cover of Forbes magazine and I was on the list,
and I was one hundredth on the list, like out
of one hundred, So like, I don't care I made
it in, and I'm that person that like says, like,
I don't care how we got in.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
We're inlets.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
It's what we do when we get there. I don't
care that I got paid seven and two hundred fifty
dollars to be on the Housewives. I got in there
and I made a meal out of it, Like that's
how I roll. And I never know what anything actually
means or is, Like I don't. Something can come in
from my publicist that she's like, you should definitely do this,
and then I'm like, why am I doing this? And
this sucks and we're not gonna do it, and then
we get there and I'm like, holy shit, and she's like,
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I mean I told you. And also sometimes she tells
me to do things that then our shit.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I mean, you can't. You can't.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Can't hit a home run every time. But like I
never know what something is until I arrive, Like when
you describe it to me, this is an appearance we're
doing that. I kind of get it. I get the
sense of it. Is it on brand? Is it like
not compromising myself? But I forget I said it and
forget it, and then the day of it's always the
same thing. Someone comes to me, can we do want
the questions in advance? And I always say no, And
then I just want to do everything.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Let's do real.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
I always say, let's do real, like I just want
it to be the real moment that's happening. I like
thrive on authenticity and just like the real moment, because
that's where the beauty and the magic happens. That's where
the happy accidents happen. When you're overproduced, which I discussed
on a post about Blake Lively and Jennifer Lopez, you know,
and you're overproduced in an archaic model of trying to
make everything perfect and be perfect and show everybody that
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you're perfect, you miss a lot of the magic. So
I'm about the magic. Sometimes with the magic, there's not
Sometimes all the times, there's some crazy thing that happens.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
I don't know why. I don't know if it's me.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
I don't know if I'm Lucille Ball or Carol Burnett
or like why things Maybe it's because I get too excited.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
I don't know what.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Things happen me all the time that are like insane.
There's always something and I and even when I try
so hard for it not to be something, something has
to happen as little as like I'm in a feather
dress in Paris, like locked in a bathroom, and like
my assistant's like now trying to be a mechanic. Like
it's just always something. So when Danielle, who works with me,
calls me and says, you're sitting down and I say, no,
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I'm not, but what and she says, you're walking in
Paris at the Lorel fashion show. So like that doesn't
I don't understand what that. I don't even understand what
that sentence means. I heard like Paris Fashion Week, she said,
and I'm like, that sounds really big, but like for me,
my mind will always go to like there are other
people walking in big shows, but like whatever I'm invited
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to is probably like the thing the day before, you
know what I mean, like just not the real thing.
But I was excited. I'm like, oh my god, I'm
going to Paris. But I still was like I don't
believe it, Like I don't know what it means.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
It's a constant.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
It's like not it's too abstract. So everyone's getting excited
and I'm getting excited, but I don't really even know
what I'm excited about. And Loreal is a big, major company.
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I didn't realize they were the biggest in the world.
I now know that they're the biggest beauty brand in
the world, but like, I still don't get it. So
so we had like let's call it like six weeks
or a month ago, and I'm telling I'm not allowed
to say anything, but I'm telling my friends and anybody
who will like be impressed by the fact that I'm
going to Paris Fashion Week, like just like fronting. But
I really didn't want to sell out and act like
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I belong, Like, oh, I have to go to Version Week,
you know, like I was super excited and decided that
I would. They were sending me with just with my
with one person who was going to be Britain. But
I realized I needed someone for work and I don't
usually like a lot of people around, Like I'm not
like a group person. I get anxiety. But like I
knew I had to bring one person. Then I was like,
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I should also bring my other social person, and kind
of it became like this is little Miss Sunshine or
the Muppets go to Hot Wherever Manhattan, but Muppets take
Manhattan like little Miss Sunshine. If you didn't see the movie,
it's a girl named Olive who's like not the typical
pageant girl by you know, with the She's got the
big thick glasses and her family is.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Completely like flawed.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Everybody's sortifiable and something's wrong and they're a disaster, like
a disaster, and I'm like, now three of us are going.
Now we're all going, So like it was an expense
for me, Like it was like we're getting everyone playing
tickets and hotel rooms and I'm like, but we're got
like one for all awful one. Everyone's coming, We're getting
in the van, and Olive is going to go into
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some version of a fashion show, right, So like one
by one, I was just asking people. They were freaking out,
and only one person had ever been to Paris before.
One person had never left the country before, and so
like it really was like people were, you know, four
weeks planning, you know, eating healthy, like trying to figure
out outfits. Like everybody was super excited and we didn't
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really know anything and no one was telling us anything,
so we didn't understand what's gonna happen. And then like
someone said, you could do a photo shoot with Brinn
when you're there, which sounded like an obligation because I
didn't understand it. But I was like, yes, we're coming
from a place of yes. So there were six of us,
which is insane, Like who am I Like, now I'm
a gangster rapper? I just like bring like six people
into like a posse and fly everybody to Europe. Like okay,
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so we all my team of four all like younger,
you know, they're flying together, which Brenn and I had
some fomo we weren't flying with them, but we landed
at the exact same time, and like it was gonna
be a vacation for Brinn and I, but like we
would do the work obligations, like not obligations, but like
the show and the other things around it, like there
was an optional dinner with the Loreal team, an optional thing,
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and I'm usually the like not optional dinner person, Like
I'm doing my own thing and then I'm going.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
To the real thing.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
But like we land and I'm feeling fomo missing my team.
It really is like a little miss Sunshine. So I'm
like to Brinn, like let's go to lunch because somebody
she likes to be with me alone. She's like, no,
let's go to lunch with everyone. So we were gonna
go to lunch with everyone, to just a restaurant, just
like a French restaurant, and then we passed this place
called like Maison de la Trouf, which is like the
House of Truffles. I'm like, oh my god, how can
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I not take them all to Truffles, Like, let's fucking
lean in, double down, triple down, and forget. I don't
remember why we're there. I forget that we're there for
a fashion job. I'm just in the moment of like
we're a little miss Sunshine and we're And then next
to that was like caviar Caspa, the place that I
had that like two million dollar baked potato filled with caviar,
like loaded with caviar. When are these people ever gonna
have caviar? Now, this is what's going on with the
Land of the Misfit Toys. Behind the scenes, Jason, the
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makeup artist they all tell me, did not sleep one second.
Was laughing out loud at whatever he was watching on
the plane and drank six Vodkas, like en route to
a work trip. And when the person who was serving
him asked him what he wanted, he kept saying double
vodkas each time of the six and they were like, well,
and he's very tall, and they were like, well, they
like it's like having two in the air. He's like, well,
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I'm twice the size, so loaded up, so he's drinking
multiple vodkas.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Apparently.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
My assistant Mia has a very unique way of sleeping
on an airplane where she like faces and hugs the
seat to sleep.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
None of us understand that.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
And also she lets everybody know that she's like she's
has never had Merleau, so she has Merlau for the
first time on the plane, and also is excited to
come to Paris to taste Barata, not realizing that Barat
is from Italy.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
But they're going with.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
It, like everybody was just and Emily, my social girl,
looked at Danielle like she was a crazy person for
bringing a normal sized suitcase because of course on brand. Emily,
who's that girl who wears like leggings and like a
half top to an airport, which is serial killer behavior.
And she's like has tattoos and she's like gorgeous, but
like she's like that tough, bad like production bitch with
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all the stuff, with all the gear she has carry
on luggage, which to me is serial killer going to Paris.
So she's looking at Danielle like what the fuck are
you doing? And so their fire like it's just every
they're all laughing, which makes me so happy. Because I'm
that friend that like wants my friends to be friends
with each other. I don't need to be there. I
in fact, I don't want to be there, Like I
just die that they're all laughing and becoming friends with
each other and enjoying each other, you know, like my
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housekeeper still has relationships with my former assistant, and like
I just like everybody to be like have a family dysfunctional.
I crave and attract crazy dysfunctional people that are like
misfits that fit together, that are little nuts that like
value humor first. So they're all having their own experience.
So we go. We have touched the ground, we've bathed
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and now and also Danielle, who's who is a president
of my company, who she and I really have She
myself and Emily have really built this business together like
they have been my like non traditional team.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
I don't have an agent. I don't do anything normally.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
I just Danielle was working in social and I don't
even think that that was like her best skill set,
to be perfectly honest, She's like a young girl that
used to work in like publishing whatever, and I'm like, no,
I think you should come over here, and we should
work on like deals together and like we created this
position for her and in a world that neither of
us understand what we were doing, and we just have
made this happen on our own. Like anything is possible.
You could do anything. You could have any job. You
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could be a publish she could be a producer, you
could be a stylist. You could be anything you want.
It's not that hard. You can't be a doctor or
a surgeon. I don't advise that without a degree. So
Danielle goes to bed every night at nine o'clock. She's
a toddler, and it's like annoying. So Emily is on
a West coast, so I talked to her late at
night and Danielle, they're on like different shifts of dealing
with me, because I roll from six am to eleven pm.
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So I need people on different shifts to deal with
my ideas. So Danielle all of a sudden has a
new personality in Paris. Now she like drinks wine. Now
she's up late at night. Now she's ready to go
off the plane, like she has a new French personality.
So all of us get in the car and we
go and we have an Amus boush. We have a
giant baked potato with caviar and wine and like this
experience and they're all like, this is the greatest thing
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that's ever happened in my whole life. We haven't even
done anything yet, they can't believe their lives. Then we
go next door and we have like a multiple course
truffle tasting, like just decadence at its finest, and are
off to races and we are the little Miss Sunshine
team that like does everything like meaning Loreeale is like,
do you want to go on the their first night
and we're all like yup. We're in the dinner like
and we meet the other influencers and Kensington is a
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young influencer, becomes my five 't eleven supermodel like Glamazon child,
and my team takes over a lot of space and
they're just like eating every morsel and drinking every drink
and like dancing every dance and they're just like bending
over Paris and fucking it like they're not missing one crumb,
and everyone's just attracted to them and us because it's
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like we don't even know why we're that. We forgot
we're doing a show. We're just like living our best
lives in the moment.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
So we go.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
I go to the fitting with Danielle, which is a
Larel fitting, and I get there and I don't realize
that this woman, Delphine, who they introduced me to, is
like the global head of everything. She's like the HBI C,
they head bitch in charge of Lorel. But I'm just saying.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Hello to everybody, meeting everybody. I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
I have no idea, and they're like, oh my god.
And she comes up to me and she's like, oh
my god, you sold the shit out. I mean, she
shouldn't say it that way, but she's like, you sold
midnight cream and like I'm like, she's like you made
that product and I'm like, I was in pajamas dirty
and she's.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Like, you know, you're real.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
And I don't realize till later that she's like the
HBI C and she's planning the entire fashion show that
I also don't realize what it's like. And so we
go into this fitting and now it starts to come
into fruition, like what I'm walking into because this is
like multiple rooms that one time I think I was
in like a Harper's No that was just a Harper's
Bizarre photo shoot. I've never been into one of those
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like Vogue or something fashion rooms. When I tell you
I've been into rooms, it was. It was two giant
rooms of like I don't know, maybe like a thousand
to fifteen maybe to fifteen hundred elaborate dresses when I
tell you, not like like something. Everything was something that
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like Rihanna would wear to the maccallap, like giant feathers
and sequins and like cra like over the top, like
you're looking like the Statue of Liberty. You're just like
and all different colors. And I was like, what the
the hell is going on? I pictured I was going
to go into some dressing room with some person and
they were gonna give me three things they picked out
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for me.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
I try what not?
Speaker 1 (15:06):
This was like you walk through here and you pick
whatever you want, like and I'm not. I didn't even
go I just saw this little cute dress that was
hanging in it looked like my personality. Because also I
didn't want to go there and act like I belong. Oh.
I forgot to tell you that me and the land
and Misfit toys at my house weeks before in like
fifteen to twenty minutes we sat on my bed. And
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I have a crazy, weird, like beautiful mind way of dressing.
I don't wear something in my closet until it's absolutely
perfect for the event. Like I don't rush an outfit
to make it work for the event. I wait, I
could wait five years something sitting in there staring at
me like like toy story, like that toy that wants
to be played with. Then I leave it there crying
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until five years in I'm like, that's what I'm wearing
to the US Open, Like that little gene Oscarla went
a flirty little bow dress that like won't work anywhere else,
like you look like a toddler, and it it always works.
So and I have like a section for like some
when I go into like some Milan fashion week, like
if that ever happens because I'm now a supermodel, like
there's oh, there's a section for that. But like those
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things I bought on ninety percent off sale, they have
tags on them, they're waiting for their moment. I'll buy
like a gown that was fifteen thousand dollars that I
found for one thousand dollars and it looks like you're
going to win an Academy award and it's sitting in
the closet like you're a weirdo, Like why would you
buy that? Because there'll be a day. So everyone sat
on my bed and I'm like, Okay, here are my ideas.
And we styled fashion week and I was like, I'm
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doing it and I'm doing it myself. I don't borrow clothes,
I don't use a stylist. It feels inauthentic to me.
I'm doing it myself. And like we styled it forever
for lunches, like to wear ball gowns, like we just
leaned into the carry Bradshaw moment. I was like, I'm
going I'm not gonna be my normal self whom we're
in like sweatpants, you know, or just like jeans and
like a blazer or like I wanted do this right.
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So we did that. So now I go to the
fashion shoot. They told me I'm the fastest one that's
ever done it.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
I walked in.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
They had a couple of things they showed me. They
didn't seem like my personality. I didn't want to act
like nothing's worse than someone shows up at like a
movie premiere and were's like something where they act like
they're getting the award or like they were in the movie.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
You got to like know your place in society.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
I am like the one hundredth person on the Forbes
list at this Lorel show, like I heard, there's fifty people,
twenty eight countries, a lot of actual supermodels. Like know
your freaking place. Sit in the back. Just try to
stick the landing and get something that makes some sense.
So I picked this cute, adorable dress that looks like me.
It's a tulip flower, it's a Romanian designer, and but
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but I'm fifty three. So I'm like, I want to
rock the body that rocks the party. I want to
be like, I'm not gonna cover myself. I'm gonna be
like hi, like dance with the legs that wrung you, Like,
I'm gonna show my body like but I'm also not
gonna try to overstep. So I picked an outfit that
was comfortable and quintessentially me. I looked at it, I
put it on, it fit like it had been sewn
onto me, and we walked the fuck out to get
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on with the rest of what we were doing, which
is like enjoying every morsel of wine. So then we
go out like on a brand dinner with Lorel and
we have a great time and like, you know, my
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team is just like so fun and we just like
keep going. And then the next day it's like, oh,
Brenn and I have a fashion shoot that we're doing,
like in front of the Eiffel Tower, which initially felt
like work, and then all of a sudden we meet
this amazing photographer, Nicholas Gerard Den, and he shoots Shakira
and the Kardashians and Lauren Sanchez and Eva Longoria and
his wife is a famous psychic, and like he's our
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new best friend, and he takes us to like these
little alleys where like you have the best view of
the Eiffel Tower, but not like in the obvious tourist place,
so you feel like you're like in the bowels of Paris,
but like next to the Eiffel Tower, and we're in
these gorgeous outfits, and like everyone came because like the
whole Muppet crew doesn't need to come, little on a
Sunshine van doesn't need to come, but it's like one
for all. Everyone came for this and they were all
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so happy because they got like the views and the
pictures and it was just like magic gull. Every second
was the best second of our lives. And then two
years ago Brennan and I went and she wanted to
get one of those locks and put it on the bridge,
like those love locks. If you ever do this, get
get a brightly colored one, bring it from home, put
some painted purple, put ryanstones on it. Do not just
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get the basic bitch tourist store lock like we got,
because you may one day want to go back and
find it, and it's not that easy. So we go
to the lock bridge two years ago and the lock
bridge is no room or they won't let you do
it or something, and they cut them off, we heard.
So we find like the scaffolding sort of side like
ledge under the bridge where there are also thousands of locks.
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Like we're this wasn't our idea, Like for miles there
are these locks and we can't find one spot, and
we find this one little spot and we jam it.
I remember, like it was yesterday. It was so hard
to like move a other locks because some people are
putting their locks on other people's locks, and we didn't
want to do that. So we like want needed to
be in like the initial spot. So we got the
lock in, we put like Mama loves Peanut on it,
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and Brinn's like, Mom, I want to go back and
find the lock. I don't know how to explain to
you what this would be like doing like this is
not this is this is psychotic. I'm like, Brin, I mean,
I love you, I love your spirit. It's like putting
a message in a bottle and expecting it to like
wash up and you're gonna find it.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
I mean, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
But we took I remember taking a picture of the
lock and being like, then if we ever come back,
But it all ends up looking the same. You know,
it's a long, endless bridge and it's everything looks the same.
Every stairway down to this ledge looks the same. So
somehow we find the area and we can see it
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in the picture, and this famous photographer comes with us,
and we see this little hole in the stone that
seemed like it was an identifiable spot in the bridge.
I don't think it ended up actually not being and
it was such a lesson in life. So Nickicholas and
Brynn are digging into cobweb laden locks, like arguing with
each other. It's here, it's not here, it's that, it's
not that. Like we almost started to feel bad that
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the photographer was helping us for so long. It was
like it ended up being sixteen minutes. But like that
she wanted to almost like faking an orgasm, like she
wanted to almost tell him like, oh, we're there, but
like it would have been so like dissatisfying. So I
then me, as they're playing checkers and I'm always playing chess,
so I'm stepping back. I'm like, guys, brin, step away
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from the problem, keep going back to the picture, like
retrace your steps, go step back. And then they find
like where the locks like crossed with this like railing
that was in front of it, and like then they
were able to identify it and we find the lock.
Too bad, we didn't keep the key. That was a
rookie move. We find the lock, it says Mama Peanut,
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and we want to put something on it. So next time,
so she takes off a bracelet that's definitely gonna fall off.
But like we found the lock. It was magical that
happened on the trip and everyone Mi I was there
for that my assistant like that was insane. Okay, So
we find the lock and then the next day is showtime.
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Now each night we're staying out late. We're going out
like you just like sleep and look good, like I
don't sleep at all. The night before the show, I
get a last minute, amazing massage at this great place
codage spot inside the Kimpton Hotel. If you're going to Paris,
Kimpton is perfect. It's a boutique hotel. If you don't
like transacting, you want something to feel Parisian. You want
to be in a cute area. You want to like
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not it's still expensive, but it's not like being at
the Ritz, where like the lobbies. Everything but your room
is gonna be tiny. There are people like that. I'm
not that person. I want my room to be good.
I want to not see a lot of people. I
want the food to be good. The breakfast was amazing,
big fan. I would stay at the Kimpton every time.
Rooms are as small. We had a sweet so was
a little bigger but pretty balcony, gorgeous. It just I
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loved it. So I got a gorgeous massage.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
They're shocking.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
So I fell asleep the morning of the show, which
I was thrilled about.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
And then we go.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Over to the show and I'm wondering, I think I
might have to be continued because this is the show
itself is such a story what happened that I need
to take a deep breath and do that in the
next episode. And it's okay, because the trip was so
sick that we forgot why we were there, Like it
was so sick that now like we're there for the now,
we'd like realize why we're there. And and oh, it's
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at le Berra, which is the opera. It's a massive
landmark in the middle of Paris. And I realized as
we got there that it's twenty eight countries.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
As I told you fifty models.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
They say they're twenty five hundred people going to watch,
but it's not really twenty five hundred a it's going
to be like televised and all over the world. But
I didn't realize that there are like thousands of people
that are gonna be on the street because people are
like in their buildings and you in the windows, and
like they're closing off streets. They're closing off streets in Paris,
like for this show, like what I thought this was
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going to be like be in the meatpacking district version
of Paris, like which looks amazing, like in just like
fashion week and you're just walking down this long, chic runway,
and I thought it was gonna be like I've been to.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Fashion Week in New York and it's like a little pretentious.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
It's a little like everyone takes themselves very seriously and
it's I have fashion Week this week, and everyone acts
like they're curing cancer and going to fashion Week. And
it's just it's not like it doesn't have a soul.
It's not that alive. Like, yes, it's alive because they
are beautiful people and it's gorgeous creations and you have
to respect the art and I've it, but it's not
like it just doesn't feel totally like.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Free.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
It doesn't feel free and it doesn't feel alive. And
I have been to everything. I have been to the
Vanity Fair party, I have been to the Grammys, I
have been to the Emmys. I've gone to every movie
premiere I've I know, I know probably seventy five percent
of mainstream celebrities, and that mainstream of like major celebrities,
Like I've been in the world. Okay, So what I'm
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about to set you up for like is coming from
that perspective, not a braggy perspective, but like I pretty
much know everybody through like my whole life, just all
the jobs working for Laura Michaels, working for Jerry Bruckheimer,
partnering with Ellen, running into Sea, working with Mark Burnett,
like you know, working with Martha Stewart, just like I
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just know a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
It just this is just what it's been. And I've
been to a lot of things, and.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
You know, Mark Cuban and Steve Cohener on speed dial,
Like I just want you to know, like I've seen it,
sporting events, super Bowl, famous photographer boyfriends, Like we've been there,
We've done it. I'm about to set you up for
the single greatest experience of my life, like you know,
short of having a child and childbirth and things like that,
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but this is like this was I've never been more humble.
I've never experienced something more monumental and also something that
I had no idea what I was walking into, no
idea for what was to come. I mean there's a
concept that you're like, Okay, Kendall, Jenn or Eva Longoria.
But sometimes like you hear that people are at something,
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like I was at the It Ends with Us premiere,
but I was, like, I never interacted with Blake Lively.
I was at the halle Berry premiere. I happened to
have been in a beauty pageant with halle Berry when
I was thirteen, but I didn't interact with halle Berry. Like,
just because you're going to something and someone else is
doesn't mean they're interacting with you. Anna Wintour was that
It Ends with Us. I mean she breezed right by me,
like I did not know, like what just because those
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people were gonna be at this thing and Viola Davis
and I had no idea what I was entering into
and how much of an honor it was going to
be to be included in this experience. So I just
wanted to give you the fore play because I'm usually
I get to the main act kind of person sin
but like I really was olive in the Little Miss
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Sunshine Van like it felt the same. And the one
thing that I just do know in life is and
that I've always told my daughter, you don't have to
act like you belong. It's not necessarily that it's commit
to the bit, like I am a commit to the
bit person, and we all committed with our whole entire
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bodies to every dinner, every piece of caviar, every glass
of wine, every experience, the fitting, the photo shoot, like
we just went in and left no crumbs. We left
it all on the field, and then we get to
game day. The big cop
Wow, have I been through an experience. So I think
it's important to mention that I only sweat the small stuff.
And what I know to be true, and what everyone
around me realizes, is that I place equal importance on
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things that would seem very different in importance to other
things proportionally. And what I mean is like what dish
we're ordering at a restaurant, to what caption I put
on a post, to what kind of cookie place we
go to first to try, to what drugstore lip gloss
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I put on is equally as important to me as
speaking in front of five thousand people or going on
the Today Show or a date, or walking a runway
in front of millions of people. Literally, like it's not
a joke, Like I have a very strange way of
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prioritizing things. Everything matters, Like everything matters equally very If
you do it, it matters. It doesn't matter how small
or how big it is. If you're making it in
the kitchen, you do you make it good or you
don't make it at all, like and you throw it
out if it's gross, Like you don't just settle. I
don't settle in any way. I don't settle in. I
won't settle in relationships or work or I'd rather just
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not do it. So I am a very big like
do it or don't type of person. And I'm really
not a gray. I'm a black or a white. So
that's hard sometimes because I'm obsessed with everything, but I
lose the plot because I focus on the smaller things
sometimes and don't realize the big things. Like I've been
in restaurants and there could be a seven forty seven
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that could could crash in through the ceiling and I
wouldn't notice it, but I would notice like some smudge
on the table.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
You know. I'm very myopic in that way.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
And also I kind of when people ask me if
I have the Emperor has no close thing, I think
I kind of do. I've always said no, but I
think I might because I maybe ironically don't think I'm worthy,
Like I know that I'm worthy, but I can never
believe that I'm worthy.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I know it.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I'm very confident, I'm not insecure, I'm not vain, but
I can never really believe that I'm worthy. Like knowing
it is different than believing it than feeling it in
your body. So, for example, when I got the MTV
like Lifetime Achievement Award. Someone had to let me know
that it really wasn't supposed to be for me. It
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was supposed to be for somebody else. But they couldn't though,
And I was like, who cares, I'm there. I don't
give a shit. But then we get there and it's
like a different MTV Awards, Like it's not the one
that like j Lo's at. It's like this other like
reality one that like snooky and like Kristin Cavalari's at,
which I was grateful and thrilled to be there. I'm
just saying, like, it's always like you're always a hair short,
you know, I'm always like it's always like you're there,
but like not really Like listen, I was on the
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cover of Forbes magazine and I was on the list,
and I was one hundredth on the list, like out
of one hundred, So like, I don't care I made
it in, and I'm that person that like says, like,
I don't care how we got in.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
We're inlets.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
It's what we do when we get there. I don't
care that I got paid seven and two hundred fifty
dollars to be on the Housewives. I got in there
and I made a meal out of it, Like that's
how I roll. And I never know what anything actually
means or is, Like I don't. Something can come in
from my publicist that she's like, you should definitely do this,
and then I'm like, why am I doing this? And
this sucks and we're not gonna do it, and then
we get there and I'm like, holy shit, and she's like,
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I mean I told you. And also sometimes she tells
me to do things that then our shit.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I mean, you can't. You can't.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Can't hit a home run every time. But like I
never know what something is until I arrive, Like when
you describe it to me, this is an appearance we're
doing that. I kind of get it. I get the
sense of it. Is it on brand? Is it like
not compromising myself? But I forget I said it and
forget it, and then the day of it's always the
same thing. Someone comes to me, can we do want
the questions in advance? And I always say no, And
then I just want to do everything.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Let's do real.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
I always say, let's do real, like I just want
it to be the real moment that's happening. I like
thrive on authenticity and just like the real moment, because
that's where the beauty and the magic happens. That's where
the happy accidents happen. When you're overproduced, which I discussed
on a post about Blake Lively and Jennifer Lopez, you know,
and you're overproduced in an archaic model of trying to
make everything perfect and be perfect and show everybody that
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you're perfect, you miss a lot of the magic. So
I'm about the magic. Sometimes with the magic, there's not
Sometimes all the times, there's some crazy thing that happens.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
I don't know why. I don't know if it's me.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
I don't know if I'm Lucille Ball or Carol Burnett
or like why things Maybe it's because I get too excited.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
I don't know what.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Things happen me all the time that are like insane.
There's always something and I and even when I try
so hard for it not to be something, something has
to happen as little as like I'm in a feather
dress in Paris, like locked in a bathroom, and like
my assistant's like now trying to be a mechanic. Like
it's just always something. So when Danielle, who works with me,
calls me and says, you're sitting down and I say, no,
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I'm not, but what and she says, you're walking in
Paris at the Lorel fashion show. So like that doesn't
I don't understand what that. I don't even understand what
that sentence means. I heard like Paris Fashion Week, she said,
and I'm like, that sounds really big, but like for me,
my mind will always go to like there are other
people walking in big shows, but like whatever I'm invited
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to is probably like the thing the day before, you
know what I mean, like just not the real thing.
But I was excited. I'm like, oh my god, I'm
going to Paris. But I still was like I don't
believe it, Like I don't know what it means.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
It's a constant.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
It's like not it's too abstract. So everyone's getting excited
and I'm getting excited, but I don't really even know
what I'm excited about. And Loreal is a big, major company.
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I didn't realize they were the biggest in the world.
I now know that they're the biggest beauty brand in
the world, but like, I still don't get it. So
so we had like let's call it like six weeks
or a month ago, and I'm telling I'm not allowed
to say anything, but I'm telling my friends and anybody
who will like be impressed by the fact that I'm
going to Paris Fashion Week, like just like fronting. But
I really didn't want to sell out and act like
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I belong, Like, oh, I have to go to Version Week,
you know, like I was super excited and decided that
I would. They were sending me with just with my
with one person who was going to be Britain. But
I realized I needed someone for work and I don't
usually like a lot of people around, Like I'm not
like a group person. I get anxiety. But like I
knew I had to bring one person. Then I was like,
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I should also bring my other social person, and kind
of it became like this is little Miss Sunshine or
the Muppets go to Hot Wherever Manhattan, but Muppets take
Manhattan like little Miss Sunshine. If you didn't see the movie,
it's a girl named Olive who's like not the typical
pageant girl by you know, with the She's got the
big thick glasses and her family is.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Completely like flawed.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Everybody's sortifiable and something's wrong and they're a disaster, like
a disaster, and I'm like, now three of us are going.
Now we're all going, So like it was an expense
for me, Like it was like we're getting everyone playing
tickets and hotel rooms and I'm like, but we're got
like one for all awful one. Everyone's coming, We're getting
in the van, and Olive is going to go into
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some version of a fashion show, right, So like one
by one, I was just asking people. They were freaking out,
and only one person had ever been to Paris before.
One person had never left the country before, and so
like it really was like people were, you know, four
weeks planning, you know, eating healthy, like trying to figure
out outfits. Like everybody was super excited and we didn't
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really know anything and no one was telling us anything,
so we didn't understand what's gonna happen. And then like
someone said, you could do a photo shoot with Brinn
when you're there, which sounded like an obligation because I
didn't understand it. But I was like, yes, we're coming
from a place of yes. So there were six of us,
which is insane, Like who am I Like, now I'm
a gangster rapper? I just like bring like six people
into like a posse and fly everybody to Europe. Like okay,
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so we all my team of four all like younger,
you know, they're flying together, which Brenn and I had
some fomo we weren't flying with them, but we landed
at the exact same time, and like it was gonna
be a vacation for Brinn and I, but like we
would do the work obligations, like not obligations, but like
the show and the other things around it, like there
was an optional dinner with the Loreal team, an optional thing,
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and I'm usually the like not optional dinner person, Like
I'm doing my own thing and then I'm going.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
To the real thing.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
But like we land and I'm feeling fomo missing my team.
It really is like a little miss Sunshine. So I'm
like to Brinn, like let's go to lunch because somebody
she likes to be with me alone. She's like, no,
let's go to lunch with everyone. So we were gonna
go to lunch with everyone, to just a restaurant, just
like a French restaurant, and then we passed this place
called like Maison de la Trouf, which is like the
House of Truffles. I'm like, oh my god, how can
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I not take them all to Truffles, Like, let's fucking
lean in, double down, triple down, and forget. I don't
remember why we're there. I forget that we're there for
a fashion job. I'm just in the moment of like
we're a little miss Sunshine and we're And then next
to that was like caviar Caspa, the place that I
had that like two million dollar baked potato filled with caviar,
like loaded with caviar. When are these people ever gonna
have caviar? Now, this is what's going on with the
Land of the Misfit Toys. Behind the scenes, Jason, the
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makeup artist they all tell me, did not sleep one second.
Was laughing out loud at whatever he was watching on
the plane and drank six Vodkas, like en route to
a work trip. And when the person who was serving
him asked him what he wanted, he kept saying double
vodkas each time of the six and they were like, well,
and he's very tall, and they were like, well, they
like it's like having two in the air. He's like, well,
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I'm twice the size, so loaded up, so he's drinking
multiple vodkas.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Apparently.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
My assistant Mia has a very unique way of sleeping
on an airplane where she like faces and hugs the
seat to sleep.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
None of us understand that.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
And also she lets everybody know that she's like she's
has never had Merleau, so she has Merlau for the
first time on the plane, and also is excited to
come to Paris to taste Barata, not realizing that Barat
is from Italy.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
But they're going with.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
It, like everybody was just and Emily, my social girl,
looked at Danielle like she was a crazy person for
bringing a normal sized suitcase because of course on brand. Emily,
who's that girl who wears like leggings and like a
half top to an airport, which is serial killer behavior.
And she's like has tattoos and she's like gorgeous, but
like she's like that tough, bad like production bitch with
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all the stuff, with all the gear she has carry
on luggage, which to me is serial killer going to Paris.
So she's looking at Danielle like what the fuck are
you doing? And so their fire like it's just every
they're all laughing, which makes me so happy. Because I'm
that friend that like wants my friends to be friends
with each other. I don't need to be there. I
in fact, I don't want to be there, Like I
just die that they're all laughing and becoming friends with
each other and enjoying each other, you know, like my
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housekeeper still has relationships with my former assistant, and like
I just like everybody to be like have a family dysfunctional.
I crave and attract crazy dysfunctional people that are like
misfits that fit together, that are little nuts that like
value humor first. So they're all having their own experience.
So we go. We have touched the ground, we've bathed
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and now and also Danielle, who's who is a president
of my company, who she and I really have She
myself and Emily have really built this business together like
they have been my like non traditional team.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
I don't have an agent. I don't do anything normally.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
I just Danielle was working in social and I don't
even think that that was like her best skill set,
to be perfectly honest, She's like a young girl that
used to work in like publishing whatever, and I'm like, no,
I think you should come over here, and we should
work on like deals together and like we created this
position for her and in a world that neither of
us understand what we were doing, and we just have
made this happen on our own. Like anything is possible.
You could do anything. You could have any job. You
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could be a publish she could be a producer, you
could be a stylist. You could be anything you want.
It's not that hard. You can't be a doctor or
a surgeon. I don't advise that without a degree. So
Danielle goes to bed every night at nine o'clock. She's
a toddler, and it's like annoying. So Emily is on
a West coast, so I talked to her late at
night and Danielle, they're on like different shifts of dealing
with me, because I roll from six am to eleven pm.
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So I need people on different shifts to deal with
my ideas. So Danielle all of a sudden has a
new personality in Paris. Now she like drinks wine. Now
she's up late at night. Now she's ready to go
off the plane, like she has a new French personality.
So all of us get in the car and we
go and we have an Amus boush. We have a
giant baked potato with caviar and wine and like this
experience and they're all like, this is the greatest thing
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that's ever happened in my whole life. We haven't even
done anything yet, they can't believe their lives. Then we
go next door and we have like a multiple course
truffle tasting, like just decadence at its finest, and are
off to races and we are the little Miss Sunshine
team that like does everything like meaning Loreeale is like,
do you want to go on the their first night
and we're all like yup. We're in the dinner like
and we meet the other influencers and Kensington is a
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young influencer, becomes my five 't eleven supermodel like Glamazon child,
and my team takes over a lot of space and
they're just like eating every morsel and drinking every drink
and like dancing every dance and they're just like bending
over Paris and fucking it like they're not missing one crumb,
and everyone's just attracted to them and us because it's
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like we don't even know why we're that. We forgot
we're doing a show. We're just like living our best
lives in the moment.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
So we go.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
I go to the fitting with Danielle, which is a
Larel fitting, and I get there and I don't realize
that this woman, Delphine, who they introduced me to, is
like the global head of everything. She's like the HBI C,
they head bitch in charge of Lorel. But I'm just saying.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Hello to everybody, meeting everybody. I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
I have no idea, and they're like, oh my god.
And she comes up to me and she's like, oh
my god, you sold the shit out. I mean, she
shouldn't say it that way, but she's like, you sold
midnight cream and like I'm like, she's like you made
that product and I'm like, I was in pajamas dirty
and she's.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Like, you know, you're real.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
And I don't realize till later that she's like the
HBI C and she's planning the entire fashion show that
I also don't realize what it's like. And so we
go into this fitting and now it starts to come
into fruition, like what I'm walking into because this is
like multiple rooms that one time I think I was
in like a Harper's No that was just a Harper's
Bizarre photo shoot. I've never been into one of those
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like Vogue or something fashion rooms. When I tell you
I've been into rooms, it was. It was two giant
rooms of like I don't know, maybe like a thousand
to fifteen maybe to fifteen hundred elaborate dresses when I
tell you, not like like something. Everything was something that
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like Rihanna would wear to the maccallap, like giant feathers
and sequins and like cra like over the top, like
you're looking like the Statue of Liberty. You're just like
and all different colors. And I was like, what the
the hell is going on? I pictured I was going
to go into some dressing room with some person and
they were gonna give me three things they picked out
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for me.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
I try what not?
Speaker 1 (15:06):
This was like you walk through here and you pick
whatever you want, like and I'm not. I didn't even
go I just saw this little cute dress that was
hanging in it looked like my personality. Because also I
didn't want to go there and act like I belong. Oh.
I forgot to tell you that me and the land
and Misfit toys at my house weeks before in like
fifteen to twenty minutes we sat on my bed. And
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I have a crazy, weird, like beautiful mind way of dressing.
I don't wear something in my closet until it's absolutely
perfect for the event. Like I don't rush an outfit
to make it work for the event. I wait, I
could wait five years something sitting in there staring at
me like like toy story, like that toy that wants
to be played with. Then I leave it there crying
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until five years in I'm like, that's what I'm wearing
to the US Open, Like that little gene Oscarla went
a flirty little bow dress that like won't work anywhere else,
like you look like a toddler, and it it always works.
So and I have like a section for like some
when I go into like some Milan fashion week, like
if that ever happens because I'm now a supermodel, like
there's oh, there's a section for that. But like those
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things I bought on ninety percent off sale, they have
tags on them, they're waiting for their moment. I'll buy
like a gown that was fifteen thousand dollars that I
found for one thousand dollars and it looks like you're
going to win an Academy award and it's sitting in
the closet like you're a weirdo, Like why would you
buy that? Because there'll be a day. So everyone sat
on my bed and I'm like, Okay, here are my ideas.
And we styled fashion week and I was like, I'm
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doing it and I'm doing it myself. I don't borrow clothes,
I don't use a stylist. It feels inauthentic to me.
I'm doing it myself. And like we styled it forever
for lunches, like to wear ball gowns, like we just
leaned into the carry Bradshaw moment. I was like, I'm
going I'm not gonna be my normal self whom we're
in like sweatpants, you know, or just like jeans and
like a blazer or like I wanted do this right.
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So we did that. So now I go to the
fashion shoot. They told me I'm the fastest one that's
ever done it.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
I walked in.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
They had a couple of things they showed me. They
didn't seem like my personality. I didn't want to act
like nothing's worse than someone shows up at like a
movie premiere and were's like something where they act like
they're getting the award or like they were in the movie.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
You got to like know your place in society.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
I am like the one hundredth person on the Forbes
list at this Lorel show, like I heard, there's fifty people,
twenty eight countries, a lot of actual supermodels. Like know
your freaking place. Sit in the back. Just try to
stick the landing and get something that makes some sense.
So I picked this cute, adorable dress that looks like me.
It's a tulip flower, it's a Romanian designer, and but
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but I'm fifty three. So I'm like, I want to
rock the body that rocks the party. I want to
be like, I'm not gonna cover myself. I'm gonna be
like hi, like dance with the legs that wrung you, Like,
I'm gonna show my body like but I'm also not
gonna try to overstep. So I picked an outfit that
was comfortable and quintessentially me. I looked at it, I
put it on, it fit like it had been sewn
onto me, and we walked the fuck out to get
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on with the rest of what we were doing, which
is like enjoying every morsel of wine. So then we
go out like on a brand dinner with Lorel and
we have a great time and like, you know, my
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team is just like so fun and we just like
keep going. And then the next day it's like, oh,
Brenn and I have a fashion shoot that we're doing,
like in front of the Eiffel Tower, which initially felt
like work, and then all of a sudden we meet
this amazing photographer, Nicholas Gerard Den, and he shoots Shakira
and the Kardashians and Lauren Sanchez and Eva Longoria and
his wife is a famous psychic, and like he's our
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new best friend, and he takes us to like these
little alleys where like you have the best view of
the Eiffel Tower, but not like in the obvious tourist place,
so you feel like you're like in the bowels of Paris,
but like next to the Eiffel Tower, and we're in
these gorgeous outfits, and like everyone came because like the
whole Muppet crew doesn't need to come, little on a
Sunshine van doesn't need to come, but it's like one
for all. Everyone came for this and they were all
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so happy because they got like the views and the
pictures and it was just like magic gull. Every second
was the best second of our lives. And then two
years ago Brennan and I went and she wanted to
get one of those locks and put it on the bridge,
like those love locks. If you ever do this, get
get a brightly colored one, bring it from home, put
some painted purple, put ryanstones on it. Do not just
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get the basic bitch tourist store lock like we got,
because you may one day want to go back and
find it, and it's not that easy. So we go
to the lock bridge two years ago and the lock
bridge is no room or they won't let you do
it or something, and they cut them off, we heard.
So we find like the scaffolding sort of side like
ledge under the bridge where there are also thousands of locks.
(19:49):
Like we're this wasn't our idea, Like for miles there
are these locks and we can't find one spot, and
we find this one little spot and we jam it.
I remember, like it was yesterday. It was so hard
to like move a other locks because some people are
putting their locks on other people's locks, and we didn't
want to do that. So we like want needed to
be in like the initial spot. So we got the
lock in, we put like Mama loves Peanut on it,
(20:11):
and Brinn's like, Mom, I want to go back and
find the lock. I don't know how to explain to
you what this would be like doing like this is
not this is this is psychotic. I'm like, Brin, I mean,
I love you, I love your spirit. It's like putting
a message in a bottle and expecting it to like
wash up and you're gonna find it.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
I mean, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
But we took I remember taking a picture of the
lock and being like, then if we ever come back,
But it all ends up looking the same. You know,
it's a long, endless bridge and it's everything looks the same.
Every stairway down to this ledge looks the same. So
somehow we find the area and we can see it
(20:48):
in the picture, and this famous photographer comes with us,
and we see this little hole in the stone that
seemed like it was an identifiable spot in the bridge.
I don't think it ended up actually not being and
it was such a lesson in life. So Nickicholas and
Brynn are digging into cobweb laden locks, like arguing with
each other. It's here, it's not here, it's that, it's
not that. Like we almost started to feel bad that
(21:10):
the photographer was helping us for so long. It was
like it ended up being sixteen minutes. But like that
she wanted to almost like faking an orgasm, like she
wanted to almost tell him like, oh, we're there, but
like it would have been so like dissatisfying. So I
then me, as they're playing checkers and I'm always playing chess,
so I'm stepping back. I'm like, guys, brin, step away
(21:31):
from the problem, keep going back to the picture, like
retrace your steps, go step back. And then they find
like where the locks like crossed with this like railing
that was in front of it, and like then they
were able to identify it and we find the lock.
Too bad, we didn't keep the key. That was a
rookie move. We find the lock, it says Mama Peanut,
(21:53):
and we want to put something on it. So next time,
so she takes off a bracelet that's definitely gonna fall off.
But like we found the lock. It was magical that
happened on the trip and everyone Mi I was there
for that my assistant like that was insane. Okay, So
we find the lock and then the next day is showtime.
(22:14):
Now each night we're staying out late. We're going out
like you just like sleep and look good, like I
don't sleep at all. The night before the show, I
get a last minute, amazing massage at this great place
codage spot inside the Kimpton Hotel. If you're going to Paris,
Kimpton is perfect. It's a boutique hotel. If you don't
like transacting, you want something to feel Parisian. You want
to be in a cute area. You want to like
(22:38):
not it's still expensive, but it's not like being at
the Ritz, where like the lobbies. Everything but your room
is gonna be tiny. There are people like that. I'm
not that person. I want my room to be good.
I want to not see a lot of people. I
want the food to be good. The breakfast was amazing,
big fan. I would stay at the Kimpton every time.
Rooms are as small. We had a sweet so was
a little bigger but pretty balcony, gorgeous. It just I
(22:58):
loved it. So I got a gorgeous massage.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
They're shocking.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
So I fell asleep the morning of the show, which
I was thrilled about.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
And then we go.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Over to the show and I'm wondering, I think I
might have to be continued because this is the show
itself is such a story what happened that I need
to take a deep breath and do that in the
next episode. And it's okay, because the trip was so
sick that we forgot why we were there, Like it
was so sick that now like we're there for the now,
we'd like realize why we're there. And and oh, it's
(23:31):
at le Berra, which is the opera. It's a massive
landmark in the middle of Paris. And I realized as
we got there that it's twenty eight countries.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
As I told you fifty models.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
They say they're twenty five hundred people going to watch,
but it's not really twenty five hundred a it's going
to be like televised and all over the world. But
I didn't realize that there are like thousands of people
that are gonna be on the street because people are
like in their buildings and you in the windows, and
like they're closing off streets. They're closing off streets in Paris,
like for this show, like what I thought this was
(24:06):
going to be like be in the meatpacking district version
of Paris, like which looks amazing, like in just like
fashion week and you're just walking down this long, chic runway,
and I thought it was gonna be like I've been to.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Fashion Week in New York and it's like a little pretentious.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
It's a little like everyone takes themselves very seriously and
it's I have fashion Week this week, and everyone acts
like they're curing cancer and going to fashion Week. And
it's just it's not like it doesn't have a soul.
It's not that alive. Like, yes, it's alive because they
are beautiful people and it's gorgeous creations and you have
to respect the art and I've it, but it's not
like it just doesn't feel totally like.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Free.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
It doesn't feel free and it doesn't feel alive. And
I have been to everything. I have been to the
Vanity Fair party, I have been to the Grammys, I
have been to the Emmys. I've gone to every movie
premiere I've I know, I know probably seventy five percent
of mainstream celebrities, and that mainstream of like major celebrities,
Like I've been in the world. Okay, So what I'm
(25:05):
about to set you up for like is coming from
that perspective, not a braggy perspective, but like I pretty
much know everybody through like my whole life, just all
the jobs working for Laura Michaels, working for Jerry Bruckheimer,
partnering with Ellen, running into Sea, working with Mark Burnett,
like you know, working with Martha Stewart, just like I
(25:25):
just know a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
It just this is just what it's been. And I've
been to a lot of things, and.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
You know, Mark Cuban and Steve Cohener on speed dial,
Like I just want you to know, like I've seen it,
sporting events, super Bowl, famous photographer boyfriends, Like we've been there,
We've done it. I'm about to set you up for
the single greatest experience of my life, like you know,
short of having a child and childbirth and things like that,
(25:56):
but this is like this was I've never been more humble.
I've never experienced something more monumental and also something that
I had no idea what I was walking into, no
idea for what was to come. I mean there's a
concept that you're like, Okay, Kendall, Jenn or Eva Longoria.
But sometimes like you hear that people are at something,
(26:18):
like I was at the It Ends with Us premiere,
but I was, like, I never interacted with Blake Lively.
I was at the halle Berry premiere. I happened to
have been in a beauty pageant with halle Berry when
I was thirteen, but I didn't interact with halle Berry. Like,
just because you're going to something and someone else is
doesn't mean they're interacting with you. Anna Wintour was that
It Ends with Us. I mean she breezed right by me,
like I did not know, like what just because those
(26:42):
people were gonna be at this thing and Viola Davis
and I had no idea what I was entering into
and how much of an honor it was going to
be to be included in this experience. So I just
wanted to give you the fore play because I'm usually
I get to the main act kind of person sin
but like I really was olive in the Little Miss
(27:05):
Sunshine Van like it felt the same. And the one
thing that I just do know in life is and
that I've always told my daughter, you don't have to
act like you belong. It's not necessarily that it's commit
to the bit, like I am a commit to the
bit person, and we all committed with our whole entire
(27:26):
bodies to every dinner, every piece of caviar, every glass
of wine, every experience, the fitting, the photo shoot, like
we just went in and left no crumbs. We left
it all on the field, and then we get to
game day. The big cop
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Bethenny Frankel
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