March 15, 2021 • 34 mins
If you want a lesson in manifestation, you have to listen to Charlotte McKinney!
She always knew what she wanted and knew how to get it, and Wells is finding out how she pulled it off.
From a career in modeling to acting to entrepreneurship, she’s done it all!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's a rainy day to day sucks like this isn't
why I pay California taxes. Okay, I pay California taxes
because I want the sunshine. Okay, So not trus in
charge here, God, but fix it because rain, no, thank you.
And if you're gonna rain rain overnight, okay, I don't care.
I'm sleeping. I'm sleeping. Then it doesn't matter to me.
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Rain in the mountains or snow in the mountain, do it,
don't do it in Los Angeles is all I am saying. Okay,
let's let's roll it. This is the Wells with Wells
Atoms and I heart radio podcast. What's up, guys? How
are we doing today? Me? I'm a little doom and
(00:44):
gloom because, like I said, it was raining outside and
it's like gross, I don't understand how people live in Seattle.
How one day of rain every three months and I'm like,
what's going on? Like how my dog has been comes
l a where it's reigning outside and he'll look out
to go to the bathroom and he'll be like, nah,
(01:09):
I'm just gonna hold it. I don't that doesn't seem
fun out there. It's like you're a dog, dude, you
don't what does that matter to you? You've got all
built in jacket. He's like, I don't know. I'm gonna
sit here on the couch and just wait for this
to blow over. You know, it's not always sunshine and
bikinis in Los Angeles. It's not. But I will say
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this today on the Wells Cast, we have someone who
started their career hanging out in the sunshine, modeling mckinnis.
That's what she lived over in Florida. Her story is crazy.
She knew what she wanted. She actually dropped out of
high school and yeah, manifested her destiny, became a model,
became an actress, became an entrepreneur. Literally, she has done
everything you can do. She holding the title of one
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of the sexiest women by g Q in the world. Yeah.
Was she g q's International Model of the Year. You
know it was she just in the movie The r
comm In or just in the movie Guesthouse. Yes? Was
she in Fantasy Island? Yeah? Was she in Baywatch? You
know it was she and mcgever, Yes, the newer versions
of those, Just so you know, did she team up
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with Maria Sharapova and Mark Cuban on fitness Successories. Yeah,
that's the real money right there. She's done everything, and
that she's about to do my podcast, which I can
only assume is the low light of her career whatever.
It all started in two thousand fifteen, and if you
were watching the Super Bowl that year, which I mean,
I guess that's everybody might have seen Little Carl's junior commercial.
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That was her big break. And then since then she's
been killing it on the Wells Gas Today. The origin
story of the multi talented Charlotte McKenney. This is one
guy's you do not want to al right, look about
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the Wells Gas excited to have actress model. I'm gonna
go ahead and say, comedian entrepreneurs on the show, Charlotte McKinney,
How are you? I think that's the best title I've
gotten so far. Thank you that well, hey man, you've
done everything, like I think, the first time I became
aware of you was the Super Bowl, So maybe I
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should throw athlete in there as well. Yeah right, I
mean you could call me an athlete, so totally fine.
You're athlete adjacent. I mean, you were on a super
Bowl commercial basically a football player like totally you got
a ring, I assume that year, Yeah, of course. Yeah. Yeah. So,
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like I guess the first time everyone maybe saw you
on the global scale was that Carl's Junior commercial. Everyone
probably listening to this being like wait, who is this
and then every guy's like, yep, I know exactly what's
happening right now? Do you do you, like remember that
Super Bowl sun a vividly? Well, yeah, I was actually
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doing press for Carl's, so like I did, I actually
went to the Super Bowl like a few days before
and then like had to like work with them and
and all that, so it was exciting. But yeah, I mean,
I guess that would be like my most I mean
I feel like, no matter what, I will forever be
the Burger Girl. So people definitely just know me as
the Carl's Junior girl. So try still trying to like
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break that, you know, saying, but hey, like I'm super
grateful for it, and it is what it is, hey man,
Everyone needs a break. And the truth of the matter is,
is it propelled you to do a lot of other stuff. Obviously,
like hard work and talent led to all this other stuff.
But you know, everyone has to figure out a way
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to get in the door at some point, and I
think that's a pretty good entrance into a large scale
But you've done so much since then. I was just
going over kind of like your resume and like the
stuff that I'm supposed to talk about with you, and
it's a lot, so I I guess, what do you
want to talk about first? Yeah, I mean I think
I'm just trying to like get away from that stereo
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type of you know, my fan base is a lot
of men and that whole world of the Carls Jr.
But I think there's just a lot more to me
and a lot of other things that I've worked on
that I guess people aren't so familiar with um. But yeah,
I mean I've kind of just been doing press today
for a recent campaign. I did so just all around
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anything you have to ask me, I'm pretty open to. Well,
your acting career has gone from like girl on a
bicycle to now leading movies. I want to go that far.
I mean, you're but you know it's these are like
legit roles on big movies, Fantasy Island, Baywatch, and you've
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got some new stuff coming out. I was just going
over the IMDb. There's a film called Phobias that's completed
but hasn't been hasn't been released, Guesthouse, the Argument, Like
this is all new stuff. I think the one I
was most excited about was um it was and indeed
that came out this year was The Argument and guest
House and those were those were super fun and Phobias
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was another just a small little cameo. But um, but yeah,
I'm just kind of working towards that, you know, whether
it's a t a reoccurring TV role or you know,
a bigger movie role. But that's kind of where my
where I've kind of put my focus on is more
of the acting. And I love comedy and that that
kind of area. So so yeah, I'm just kind of
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trying to break the break the mold of it. My
fiance and myself are huge fans of the show Shark Tank,
and I know and I know that you are now
linked to Shark Tank. I guess talk to everyone about Yeah.
So so it's pronounced Balla and yeah, today we're on
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kt l A talking about it and doing a bunch
of things. So I just did at a collaboration and
a campaign with Bala Bengals. And if you're familiar, So
I mean, yeah, I guess people would know it from
Shark Tank. Um, they were on Shark Tank. They got
picked up by Maria. I don't know if I'm saying
it Mark Cuban and um, the Maria Sharapova Maria exact
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thank you. So so they started working together and during
kind of the lockdown, it's really just taken off because
it's been It's basically these ankle weights and arm weights
and these things you can basically just wear them when
you're walking around going to the grocery store. They're just
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like super convenient. And they totally took off during the
time when everyone had to kind of work out from home,
and so we kind of were able to do a
big campaign during the time, and um, now it's all
launching and it's been really fun. I remember that episode
very vividly, and I remember Maria Mark going in together.
That's so cool that you guys are teaming. And also
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like it just makes sense everyone stuck at home right now.
It's like either you lean into just eating Postmates every
day or you try to better yourself in your body.
And I guess totally yeah, I mean I feel like
I feel like there came a point where like at
the start, everyone was like eating and drinking and this
and that. But then there came a point where it's like, okay,
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I've put on like the COVID nineteen. Yeah, like I
need to like I need to get my ship together.
So so they just like totally took off. And and
it was funny because I got photographed maybe like leaving
air one or something wearing them and and so you know,
we kind of connected again on that, and I was like,
we should really work together. And I was just such
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a fan. I was literally living in these ankle weights.
So the girls and everyone was just so amazing to
work with and collaborate with. And um, I'll have to
send a pair to you and your girlfriend. Yeah that
would be really cool because I need all the help
I can get because I didn't pack on the COVID
nineteen for sure, I think we all did. Yeah, no
judgment here. Tell me about the Detox bar and the
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good chocolate. Oh yeah, so randomly, so totally random. Um.
Another thing, I just like, I loved this chocolate line
and they kind of reached out to me to collaborate
and we made a chocolate bar together. I I found
their chocolate at a grocery store and then they were like,
we'd love to make something with you. And during COVID
I had I had kind of that downtime to like
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do my research, and I made a chocolate bar, so
that happened. It's basically, like I'm practiced an anti inflammatory diet,
and it's basically an anti inflammatory like tumoric dark chocolate
chocolate bar, so you don't feel bad while you're eating it.
So here's the plan. You can go eat chocolate and
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then afterwards you can use the ball of ants to
work off said chocolate. So it's perfect exactly exactly, but
this chocolate is so healthy that you don't even really
have to work it out. So I'm just kind of
here helping everyone live their best and healthiest life. I
love that. Yeah. Alright, well I don't know if anyone
told you, but this show is an origin story podcast,
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so I like to talk to like uber successful people
and find out how they got to become successful in
their careers. And so we are going to take a
break and when we come back, can we do a
deep dive and find out where the hell Charlotte came
from and how the hell she got here. I am
ready a good story. I cannot freaking wait. Stick around
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everybody all right back in the Wales cast very excited
to have Charlotte McKinney on this show. You know her
as an actress and a model, Instagram influencer. She's now
getting into the entrepreneurial side of social media, helping out
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with the ball of bands that are weighted bands to
help you lose that COVID nineteen. You can find out
more at shop Bala dot com. She's also getting into
the food industry with the detox bar from The Good Chocolate.
Go to the Good Chocolate dot com. You've got a
new movie coming out called Phobias is not yet released
out right now that you can go check out Guesthouse.
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The argument for she was on Fantasy Island Baywatch. You
did mcgeiver too, which is cool. Were you a fan
of mcgeiver. Are you old enough to remember like the
O G mgeiver? No. I know mcgever from. I don't
know if it was Saturday Night Live or Mad TV,
but I know them from like the they would when
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they would like make fun of mcgever. But I never
really watched like the real mcgeiver, Yeah, it was. I
think it was mcgruber was the That was it? So
I knew that, And then I had a had a
few episodes on the Real Show and I was like,
I kind of still thought it was a joke. Yeah,
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oh that's awesome. But yeah, thank you for all the plugs. Yeah,
did I forget anything? Okay? Yeah, So this is an
origin Story podcast, and I just am so fascinated with
how people become famous. And I think a lot of
people out there just assume that everyone, just I guess
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just is born famous and they don't realize all the
hard work and dedication and crazy odd jobs and burnie
at both ends to kind of get to where everyone
then all of a sudden knows you aren't. You have
a blue check mark next to your name. So I'm
fascinated to hear your story. Are you from like the
Los Angeles area? No, So that's kind of what was interesting.
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And I feel like nowadays, like I feel like everyone,
like you said, it's kind of like born into it
or like a famous celebrity kid or things like that. Um,
so people just think it's like such an easy thing,
or they live in Hollywood and know someone, but I
knew absolutely no one from Hollywood. I grew up in Florida,
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so I literally had no ties or any connection to
the Hollywood world. And are you, um like an only child?
You have siblings? No, So I grew up with an
older sister, UM and my parents. My my dad was
from the Bahamas, my mom was from Canada, and they thought,
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you know, well, I guess we'll live in Florida. So
I kind of grew up in Florida and going back
and forth to the Bahamas and things like That's why.
So I really lived kind of like an simple life
by the water, just like kind of a beach rat
and just yeah, it was a pretty normal life. I
guess you could say, are not really but kind of
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what kind of kids were you? Were you a nerd?
Were you like someone who skipped class? I was very
introverted even my whole life, like I just you know,
never had too many friends. And then when I hit
high school, I you know, I was this girl who
had like a double D chest. Everyone kind of hated me.
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I didn't really fit in. I had no like good
friends at the time, and I wasn't I to be honest,
I really struggled with school. I grew up dyslexic, so
no matter what, I literally couldn't even pass like eighth
grade math. So I was like about to be in
my senior year trying to like pass you know, middle
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school math, and I just got to a point where
I dropped out. So I am a high school dropout.
I'm also like at the point in my life where
I'm not afraid to like say that. So what were
your parents saying when you were like, guys, this is
just I can't get through algebra, so we did I
gotta go. Well yeah, I mean, like I hate to
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say it, but it kind of ran in my family,
like my grandfather, my father, and like my mom, like
it just everyone was very just like visual and business
oriented and like just did school just wasn't really in
the McKinney jeens, Like it just wasn't for us. Um
So like my sister did good and graduated from FIDLM
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and things like that, but for me, I was just
like f this everyone's mean to me. I you know,
I can't finish any like I can't pass these tests,
so I'm out. So I kind of just like my
parents were like you know, like obviously they weren't stoked
like their kids dropping out of high school, so they
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weren't like super excited. So but I did it, and
I like I I was grateful like they at the
end of the day, they still supported me and like
they were you know, they were happy for me because
I wanted to just like start modeling. So I just
kind of said, you know, this is what I'm gonna do.
I find it very hard to believe that you were
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unpopular in high school. I know it's always like the
pretty girl being like, oh boo, who me? I had
no friends, but I really didn't. Like I just like
I had, like my best friend went to a different
high school, so I just didn't really you know. And
then like the guys were just you know, I had
a lot of guy friends, which made the girls not
like it was just like it was dark. I just
didn't I didn't vibe with anyone at my school. So
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were you doing the modeling like while you were in
high school or when you dropped out where you like,
well I got to pivot over and do something. Yeah,
So basically I was just like I told my parents,
I'm like I'm going to drop out. I'm not doing
my senior year, and I'm gonna move to Miami and
I'm going to try to start modeling, and everyone kind
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of just like laughed in my face. So technically I
went out to Miami and you know, kind of started
doing like test shoots and things like that. No one
really like I would meet with these modeling agencies, but
no one really wanted to take a chance with me.
I was kind of this no name. Um, I was five,
I'm five seven, I'm not super tall. I couldn't fit
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into any sample clothing because my chest was so large
at the time, and so I just kind of was
just like no one was working with me, and I
was getting really really frustrated. I think I put into
like a strong year and like just nothing was happening.
And then I had met a one of the New
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York modeling agencies. One of the directors was in Miami,
and I got to do like a dinner with him,
and he saw something in me, and we started working together,
and I started going to New York a bit and
bo like booking small things here and there, and then
it was kind of the question of like do I
want to live in New York? Do I want to
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live in California, Like where do I see myself? I
think this was like two years in and my sister
lived in California, so so I moved out and I
was just like suck it, like I want to take
a chance, and like I saw myself like I didn't
see myself fully being a model. I really just wanted
to get more into the entertainment industry. So for me,
it was kind of like how can I kind of
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get in there? And I thought, you know, start modeling
and then slowly can kind of work my way in
And that's kind of what I did. Did you go
to New York? So? New York just wasn't for me,
like I grew like growing up in Florida, like you
just like it was too much. I remember I was
there during one winter and I was just like, there's
no way I'm living here. So California was like I
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could work there. There was more work in California than
like Miami. So so I moved to like Beverly Hills
and just like went right into it. And my first
kind of big job in l A was Guess and
then after that, I like book Carl's and it kind
of just like after Carl's it just kind of took
off when you were in Miami. Did you find like
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an agent or a manager? How does it work? And yeah, my,
I mean it's just like a sketchy, weird modeling scene.
Like it wasn't like it was just it wasn't great,
and like I had like kind of like a weird
agent that would like send me out on things, but
it was nothing. Nothing, Nothing in Miami was going to
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really change my career. And I knew if I stayed there,
I'd literally just be modeling bathing suits every day. So
I knew I kind of needed to like go somewhere
and kind of take it more seriously. I imagine I've
I have never been good looking enough to be a model,
but I imagine that it's a lot more creepy than
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people realize. Oh totally. I even look back on it now,
and the older I've gotten, I've I kind of say
to myself, like because I have two nieces now, these
two beautiful young girls, and I'm like, like, I would
never let my niece model. I would never you know,
if I had a kid, I would never tell them
to go modeling. I mean, things have gotten better, but
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like things I saw at time before all this, it
was just it was grimy. So I don't really I
never I just don't really encourage it after kind of
the things I've seen and gone through. It's it's it's
not the prettiest. I've been to enough fancy Hollywood parties
or whatnot, and you're there and you'll look around. They'll
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be like, you know, a nineteen year old model, and
I'm like, you are just out of high school and
and you're trying to buy a bunch of like really
high powered, like creepy do Like, I don't know, It's
just one of those things where I just always got
the vibe that, like, you have to be really really
tough to be a model. Yeah, And I think from
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growing up and just dealing with assholes all the time,
I just I just always had tough skin. And for
the first year trying to model, everyone was like no, no, no,
And so I built this tough skin. So by the
time I got to l A, I was just kind
of like looking like everyone's telling me no, but I'm
gonna still kind of keep doing it. But but yeah,
I definitely didn't fall into it. It wasn't some easy thing.
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I wasn't like my mom was a successful model, and
I got to just kind of take after her. It
was it was challenging. So you come out to Los Angeles,
you're in Beverly Hills, your first thing you book is
guess I understand how television works, but I don't really
understand how modeling works, Like do you go on auditions
and stuff. Yeah, so I definitely went on like casting
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calls and things like that. But oddly enough, for even
for it was weird because my life was always like
castings and things like that. But when I booked Carls,
it was just like a direct booking, which I thought
was so odd. I've never really had that happen, so
that was super exciting. But yeah, it was mostly just
a lot of like casting calls, you do the guest spot,
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and then you book Carl's JR. I guess my first
question is is there's also like the stigma of you know,
models eat like rabbits, you know, like of course let
us and smoothies and whatnot, Like were you a vegetarian
at the time, Like are do you like burgers? Was
that hard for you to do? No, to be totally honest,
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I mean at I now that I look back on it.
There was a time I was like vegan, but at
the time I eat burgers all the time. I like
I was you know, I didn't. I was young. I
didn't really care what I was eating. So it wasn't like,
oh my god, I'm eating me, like this is disgusting.
I was. It was. No, it was totally natural and
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like obviously, like when I was on set for that spot,
like the burger was being painted on and things like that,
so I kind of I couldn't really eat it like
I kind of And then we were doing so many takes,
so I was definitely spitting it out in between teakes.
But no, I wasn't like afraid to eat me. Now,
did you have any idea how big of a deal
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that was going to be at the time. No, to
be honest, they didn't say. They didn't really make it
like oh, this is like a Super Bowl ad because
they didn't fully know, so like no one was really
saying like, oh, this is a Super Bowl ad, blah
blah blah. It was kind of just like, this is
a commercial hopefully it could be you know, in the
Super Bowl. For me, I was just living in the
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moment and I was not trying to worry about like
if it was going to ghost anywhere, and like I
had been through so much stuff to where like I
was like, oh, who knows, maybe this won't even go on,
you know. So I wasn't. I didn't put any pressure
on it. I just kind of took it as a
day to day job. And like that's why I think
it was so exciting, because I really had no idea
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that magnitude it kind of wouldn't bring. Can I ask
a business question about this, okay, because I'm fascinated with
this because I've done commercials to none of them were
on the Super Bowl, But like, do you get more
money if it gets on the Super Bowl? Or is
it like you've signed kind of a crap contract and
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you don't get more money even though fifty million people
see it on one night. Well, yeah, I mean that's
it's a tough question because I don't probably, But I
think at the time they I think that they were
smart and they got me when I wasn't very known,
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so I got I think I got paid up front
and I got like residuals. But yeah, I think now
if I booked something like that, I probably would have
had a better lawyer. Look um, So it's definitely a
learning experience. Like I think I was so stoked to
just like be able to do that. I wasn't even
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thinking about money or like when they said a rate,
I wasn't trying to make it higher or anything like that.
I was just like, oh my god, I'm getting paid
to do this, Like this is crazy. But like now,
like I have a lawyer who looks over every contract
I do, so so yeah, definitely Carl's got me. Hello,
Yeah that's what I assumed. But I just wanted to
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I wanted to know, well, hey, listen, like I know
that you probably and I and I totally get it.
I can very much empathize with like, yes, I was
on this Carl's Jr. Commercial, but like I'm so much
more than that. But the truth of the matter is,
and the same with me. You need some sort of
way to get the fifteen minutes, and then you have
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to be talented and you have to be hard working
to be able to continue the upward trend of your career,
which you've done really really well. And you know, we
have a lot of reality TV people on this show,
but there's also a lot of a lot of actors,
a lot of musicians, and everyone has a story of
like listen, I needed a break and that was it.
And so I think that that's cool that you had that,
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But I also think it's really impressive that you've continued
forward momentum upwards. What was the next big thing after
hold Well? I then I signed with U t A,
the talent agency, and I think I kind of went in.
I went in so naive and young, and they had
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put me on Dancing with the Stars like right after.
And it was really bizarre because at the time, like
when people brought up Dancing with the Stars at you know,
no offense, but it was kind of like the like
the hasbands and older you know people. But I guess
that that that year they were you know, looking into
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people who like, we're trending and younger, and they had
like me and Rumor Willis and um like this young
actress and stuff like that. So so I did that. Um,
but after that, I knew I didn't want to do
anything in the reality space. I saw how like manipulous,
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like they just kind of pined me as this person
and made me kind of like look a certain way.
So I knew that that's not really not really what
I wanted to do. So it was kind of like
the part of my career I don't I love to
talk about or say I did, but you know, it
is what it is, and you know, I got my
name out there again. So well, I do have friends
that have been on Dancing with the Stars. Actually I
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was on one episode and I was terrible. Stop you
were Yeah, I was like a background dancer for my
friend who was on. But I you know, contrary to
the Carl's contract, I do remember that. Apparently the Dancing
with the Stars contracts not that bad, So you know, totally,
I mean that I knew. I definitely knew why with
my agents at YouTube were pushing me through it like
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it wasn't a no brainer. But but yeah, I mean everything,
everything in my career I think has been such a
learning experience and like I'm grateful for any opportunity or
any of those jobs too. I've learned from so many
of those things. So but yeah, I mean I took
it for what it was, got to learn the salsa
and move on. Have you had the I've made it
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moment or are you one of those people that will
never give yourself the credit that you probably really deserve.
I am the person who will never give myself the
credit even when I and I'm trying to learn to
kind of live in the moment and be happy with
what I have. But I still feel like right now
I'm nowhere close to that. Especially with acting. I feel
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like every role has been pretty mediocre, So I feel
like I feel like I'm not really there yet. Um,
but I'm definitely trying to learn to be a little
nicer to myself and congratulate myself self for the smaller things.
But yeah, I'm pretty hard on myself, and I think
at the end of the day that kind of put
me to where I am and kind of keeps me motivated.
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What's something that you haven't done in your career that
you want to do. I would love to just like
have a reoccurring I mean, I've done a lot of films,
but I would love to have just like a reoccurring
TV role. I grew up watching like I still to
this day. I love watching like Two and a half
Men and things like that. I just love those little
stupid like comedy thirty minutes shows like A Will and
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Grace or all that. Like I just I find that
to be so fun. Those are all multicam sitcoms, so
I know I know so and and you know i've
I've I've read for some and I think that's something
I find so fun and challenging at the same time.
What's one piece of advice you'd give to somebody that
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you live by the help continue to be successful in
your career. I would say what I always kind of
told myself was just because one person says no, doesn't
mean everyone else's. You know, my whole life is kind
of these nose and nose and nose. And then I
got that one. It's it's just about getting that one
yes or that one person to see your vision, whether
it's a product or it's you or anything. I think
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it's about just kind of not letting yourself get too
hard on other people's opinion on you because at the
end of the day, it doesn't really matter. So true, Um,
I want to be respectful of your time, so I
don't want to take up too much much more of it.
But I wanted to end the show with with some
rapid fire questions. Are you ready for that? Love it?
Let's do it all right? Here we go rapid Fire
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Questions with Charlotte McKenny. Number one, what's one thing that's
always in your fridge? Water? That's one thing that's on
your bucket list? Um, invisibility or the ability to fly invisibility?
Why Oh I would be so invisible and just do
like shady things I could steal. I could go and
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listening on conversations. Oh, I could do so many things.
You need to go read a book or like me,
I listened. I listened to books. Um, there's an amazing
book called The Visible Man, and it's all about this
guy who makes an invisibility cloak effectively, and his whole
thing is that he likes to go and just watch people.
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It's it's amazing. What animals you wish you could talk to? Dogs,
Physical trait you notice about someone you are attracted to.
Last person you texted my mom, waffles, your pancakes neither?
What's your breakfast go to? I don't. I just don't
like waffles and pancakes. I just never got into it.
I think I'm I don't know, I'd rather get like
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a smoothie bowl or something. I don't know. I'm just
not a pancake person. I love my sweets. Though, do
you believe in soulmates? Yes? Who is your childhood hero?
My mom? Who's your celebrity crush? Paul? That is every
woman's celebrity crush. It's amazing. Whether you were born in
nineteen nine or whether you're born in two thousand and twelve,
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it's still Paul Rods. Do you have a nickname? And
if you do, what is it and do you go
by it? Yeah? Sharny. My parents, my sister, everyone I
grew up with called me Sharnie. Favorite pizza topping? Um?
Oh uh, normal cheese. Who's your first kiss? Oh god,
I don't even know what's a name. So that poor
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guy is listening to this and being like, man, I'm
going to tell you to save my life. Oh my god,
because you know how you know how Pumpty is about
that story in his life, Like, do you know how
many times he's told that and you don't even remember him? Yeah? Sorry,
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can't celebrity. You've been mistaken for Taylor Swift actually when
I was younger. Really, yeah, you're much shorter than her.
Who would you call to get you out of jail?
My dad? Who's the most famous first person in your
cell phone? Oh? I'm not answering that, all right. When
you win your oscar, who are you gonna think first?
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Everyone who told me no to keep me going? I
love that. Really, that's on that. Charlotte, thank you so
much for being on the Welles cast. Really cool story
it was. It was such a pleasure. I'm so glad
I got to meet you. You're so handsome and kind
and easy to talk to, so thanks for making that
so fun, and I look forward to talk to you
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again soon. Yeah, one day we'll all actually be able
to leave our houses and I'm sure i'll see you
what some weird Hollywood party? And yeah, and I'm hoping
to build up a podcast sometime soon too, so you'll
you'll be one of my guests. I'd love to love it, alright,
hon have a good one, all right, don't forget everybody.
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Go to a shop Bola dot com to find those
fitness successories. Go to h The Good Chocolate dot com
to get yourself the detox bar. Where do people follow
you on social media? Just my name, Charlotte McKinney, nothing crazy,
all right, Thanks so much, enjoyed the day. All the
best to you. Buy well. She was lovely. I think
that might be our first drop out of high school
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story for her man, she was able to make a
dollar at a dime, and she's got modeling, she's got
commercial work. She's in the fitness space, she's in the
food space, she's an actress. You've done a lot. Pretty cool. Alright, guys,
that is it for me. Don't forget to follow Wells
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It's the Internet. It's the Internet.
It's a rainy day to day sucks like this isn't
why I pay California taxes. Okay, I pay California taxes
because I want the sunshine. Okay, So not trus in
charge here, God, but fix it because rain, no, thank you.
And if you're gonna rain rain overnight, okay, I don't care.
I'm sleeping. I'm sleeping. Then it doesn't matter to me.
(00:22):
Rain in the mountains or snow in the mountain, do it,
don't do it in Los Angeles is all I am saying. Okay,
let's let's roll it. This is the Wells with Wells
Atoms and I heart radio podcast. What's up, guys? How
are we doing today? Me? I'm a little doom and
(00:44):
gloom because, like I said, it was raining outside and
it's like gross, I don't understand how people live in Seattle.
How one day of rain every three months and I'm like,
what's going on? Like how my dog has been comes
l a where it's reigning outside and he'll look out
to go to the bathroom and he'll be like, nah,
(01:09):
I'm just gonna hold it. I don't that doesn't seem
fun out there. It's like you're a dog, dude, you
don't what does that matter to you? You've got all
built in jacket. He's like, I don't know. I'm gonna
sit here on the couch and just wait for this
to blow over. You know, it's not always sunshine and
bikinis in Los Angeles. It's not. But I will say
(01:30):
this today on the Wells Cast, we have someone who
started their career hanging out in the sunshine, modeling mckinnis.
That's what she lived over in Florida. Her story is crazy.
She knew what she wanted. She actually dropped out of
high school and yeah, manifested her destiny, became a model,
became an actress, became an entrepreneur. Literally, she has done
everything you can do. She holding the title of one
(01:51):
of the sexiest women by g Q in the world. Yeah.
Was she g q's International Model of the Year. You
know it was she just in the movie The r
comm In or just in the movie Guesthouse. Yes? Was
she in Fantasy Island? Yeah? Was she in Baywatch? You
know it was she and mcgever, Yes, the newer versions
of those, Just so you know, did she team up
(02:13):
with Maria Sharapova and Mark Cuban on fitness Successories. Yeah,
that's the real money right there. She's done everything, and
that she's about to do my podcast, which I can
only assume is the low light of her career whatever.
It all started in two thousand fifteen, and if you
were watching the Super Bowl that year, which I mean,
I guess that's everybody might have seen Little Carl's junior commercial.
(02:35):
That was her big break. And then since then she's
been killing it on the Wells Gas Today. The origin
story of the multi talented Charlotte McKenney. This is one
guy's you do not want to al right, look about
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the Wells Gas excited to have actress model. I'm gonna
go ahead and say, comedian entrepreneurs on the show, Charlotte McKinney,
How are you? I think that's the best title I've
gotten so far. Thank you that well, hey man, you've
done everything, like I think, the first time I became
aware of you was the Super Bowl, So maybe I
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should throw athlete in there as well. Yeah right, I
mean you could call me an athlete, so totally fine.
You're athlete adjacent. I mean, you were on a super
Bowl commercial basically a football player like totally you got
a ring, I assume that year, Yeah, of course. Yeah. Yeah. So,
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like I guess the first time everyone maybe saw you
on the global scale was that Carl's Junior commercial. Everyone
probably listening to this being like wait, who is this
and then every guy's like, yep, I know exactly what's
happening right now? Do you do you, like remember that
Super Bowl sun a vividly? Well, yeah, I was actually
(04:02):
doing press for Carl's, so like I did, I actually
went to the Super Bowl like a few days before
and then like had to like work with them and
and all that, so it was exciting. But yeah, I mean,
I guess that would be like my most I mean
I feel like, no matter what, I will forever be
the Burger Girl. So people definitely just know me as
the Carl's Junior girl. So try still trying to like
(04:24):
break that, you know, saying, but hey, like I'm super
grateful for it, and it is what it is, hey man,
Everyone needs a break. And the truth of the matter is,
is it propelled you to do a lot of other stuff. Obviously,
like hard work and talent led to all this other stuff.
But you know, everyone has to figure out a way
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to get in the door at some point, and I
think that's a pretty good entrance into a large scale
But you've done so much since then. I was just
going over kind of like your resume and like the
stuff that I'm supposed to talk about with you, and
it's a lot, so I I guess, what do you
want to talk about first? Yeah, I mean I think
I'm just trying to like get away from that stereo
(05:07):
type of you know, my fan base is a lot
of men and that whole world of the Carls Jr.
But I think there's just a lot more to me
and a lot of other things that I've worked on
that I guess people aren't so familiar with um. But yeah,
I mean I've kind of just been doing press today
for a recent campaign. I did so just all around
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anything you have to ask me, I'm pretty open to. Well,
your acting career has gone from like girl on a
bicycle to now leading movies. I want to go that far.
I mean, you're but you know it's these are like
legit roles on big movies, Fantasy Island, Baywatch, and you've
(05:50):
got some new stuff coming out. I was just going
over the IMDb. There's a film called Phobias that's completed
but hasn't been hasn't been released, Guesthouse, the Argument, Like
this is all new stuff. I think the one I
was most excited about was um it was and indeed
that came out this year was The Argument and guest
House and those were those were super fun and Phobias
(06:12):
was another just a small little cameo. But um, but yeah,
I'm just kind of working towards that, you know, whether
it's a t a reoccurring TV role or you know,
a bigger movie role. But that's kind of where my
where I've kind of put my focus on is more
of the acting. And I love comedy and that that
kind of area. So so yeah, I'm just kind of
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trying to break the break the mold of it. My
fiance and myself are huge fans of the show Shark Tank,
and I know and I know that you are now
linked to Shark Tank. I guess talk to everyone about Yeah.
So so it's pronounced Balla and yeah, today we're on
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kt l A talking about it and doing a bunch
of things. So I just did at a collaboration and
a campaign with Bala Bengals. And if you're familiar, So
I mean, yeah, I guess people would know it from
Shark Tank. Um, they were on Shark Tank. They got
picked up by Maria. I don't know if I'm saying
it Mark Cuban and um, the Maria Sharapova Maria exact
(07:19):
thank you. So so they started working together and during
kind of the lockdown, it's really just taken off because
it's been It's basically these ankle weights and arm weights
and these things you can basically just wear them when
you're walking around going to the grocery store. They're just
(07:39):
like super convenient. And they totally took off during the
time when everyone had to kind of work out from home,
and so we kind of were able to do a
big campaign during the time, and um, now it's all
launching and it's been really fun. I remember that episode
very vividly, and I remember Maria Mark going in together.
That's so cool that you guys are teaming. And also
(08:02):
like it just makes sense everyone stuck at home right now.
It's like either you lean into just eating Postmates every
day or you try to better yourself in your body.
And I guess totally yeah, I mean I feel like
I feel like there came a point where like at
the start, everyone was like eating and drinking and this
and that. But then there came a point where it's like, okay,
(08:23):
I've put on like the COVID nineteen. Yeah, like I
need to like I need to get my ship together.
So so they just like totally took off. And and
it was funny because I got photographed maybe like leaving
air one or something wearing them and and so you know,
we kind of connected again on that, and I was like,
we should really work together. And I was just such
(08:44):
a fan. I was literally living in these ankle weights.
So the girls and everyone was just so amazing to
work with and collaborate with. And um, I'll have to
send a pair to you and your girlfriend. Yeah that
would be really cool because I need all the help
I can get because I didn't pack on the COVID
nineteen for sure, I think we all did. Yeah, no
judgment here. Tell me about the Detox bar and the
(09:06):
good chocolate. Oh yeah, so randomly, so totally random. Um.
Another thing, I just like, I loved this chocolate line
and they kind of reached out to me to collaborate
and we made a chocolate bar together. I I found
their chocolate at a grocery store and then they were like,
we'd love to make something with you. And during COVID
I had I had kind of that downtime to like
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do my research, and I made a chocolate bar, so
that happened. It's basically, like I'm practiced an anti inflammatory diet,
and it's basically an anti inflammatory like tumoric dark chocolate
chocolate bar, so you don't feel bad while you're eating it.
So here's the plan. You can go eat chocolate and
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then afterwards you can use the ball of ants to
work off said chocolate. So it's perfect exactly exactly, but
this chocolate is so healthy that you don't even really
have to work it out. So I'm just kind of
here helping everyone live their best and healthiest life. I
love that. Yeah. Alright, well I don't know if anyone
told you, but this show is an origin story podcast,
(10:11):
so I like to talk to like uber successful people
and find out how they got to become successful in
their careers. And so we are going to take a
break and when we come back, can we do a
deep dive and find out where the hell Charlotte came
from and how the hell she got here. I am
ready a good story. I cannot freaking wait. Stick around
(10:35):
everybody all right back in the Wales cast very excited
to have Charlotte McKinney on this show. You know her
as an actress and a model, Instagram influencer. She's now
getting into the entrepreneurial side of social media, helping out
(10:59):
with the ball of bands that are weighted bands to
help you lose that COVID nineteen. You can find out
more at shop Bala dot com. She's also getting into
the food industry with the detox bar from The Good Chocolate.
Go to the Good Chocolate dot com. You've got a
new movie coming out called Phobias is not yet released
out right now that you can go check out Guesthouse.
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The argument for she was on Fantasy Island Baywatch. You
did mcgeiver too, which is cool. Were you a fan
of mcgeiver. Are you old enough to remember like the
O G mgeiver? No. I know mcgever from. I don't
know if it was Saturday Night Live or Mad TV,
but I know them from like the they would when
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they would like make fun of mcgever. But I never
really watched like the real mcgeiver, Yeah, it was. I
think it was mcgruber was the That was it? So
I knew that, And then I had a had a
few episodes on the Real Show and I was like,
I kind of still thought it was a joke. Yeah,
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oh that's awesome. But yeah, thank you for all the plugs. Yeah,
did I forget anything? Okay? Yeah, So this is an
origin Story podcast, and I just am so fascinated with
how people become famous. And I think a lot of
people out there just assume that everyone, just I guess
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just is born famous and they don't realize all the
hard work and dedication and crazy odd jobs and burnie
at both ends to kind of get to where everyone
then all of a sudden knows you aren't. You have
a blue check mark next to your name. So I'm
fascinated to hear your story. Are you from like the
Los Angeles area? No, So that's kind of what was interesting.
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And I feel like nowadays, like I feel like everyone,
like you said, it's kind of like born into it
or like a famous celebrity kid or things like that. Um,
so people just think it's like such an easy thing,
or they live in Hollywood and know someone, but I
knew absolutely no one from Hollywood. I grew up in Florida,
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so I literally had no ties or any connection to
the Hollywood world. And are you, um like an only child?
You have siblings? No, So I grew up with an
older sister, UM and my parents. My my dad was
from the Bahamas, my mom was from Canada, and they thought,
(13:30):
you know, well, I guess we'll live in Florida. So
I kind of grew up in Florida and going back
and forth to the Bahamas and things like That's why.
So I really lived kind of like an simple life
by the water, just like kind of a beach rat
and just yeah, it was a pretty normal life. I
guess you could say, are not really but kind of
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what kind of kids were you? Were you a nerd?
Were you like someone who skipped class? I was very
introverted even my whole life, like I just you know,
never had too many friends. And then when I hit
high school, I you know, I was this girl who
had like a double D chest. Everyone kind of hated me.
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I didn't really fit in. I had no like good
friends at the time, and I wasn't I to be honest,
I really struggled with school. I grew up dyslexic, so
no matter what, I literally couldn't even pass like eighth
grade math. So I was like about to be in
my senior year trying to like pass you know, middle
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school math, and I just got to a point where
I dropped out. So I am a high school dropout.
I'm also like at the point in my life where
I'm not afraid to like say that. So what were
your parents saying when you were like, guys, this is
just I can't get through algebra, so we did I
gotta go. Well yeah, I mean, like I hate to
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say it, but it kind of ran in my family,
like my grandfather, my father, and like my mom, like
it just everyone was very just like visual and business
oriented and like just did school just wasn't really in
the McKinney jeens, Like it just wasn't for us. Um
So like my sister did good and graduated from FIDLM
(15:18):
and things like that, but for me, I was just
like f this everyone's mean to me. I you know,
I can't finish any like I can't pass these tests,
so I'm out. So I kind of just like my
parents were like you know, like obviously they weren't stoked
like their kids dropping out of high school, so they
(15:38):
weren't like super excited. So but I did it, and
I like I I was grateful like they at the
end of the day, they still supported me and like
they were you know, they were happy for me because
I wanted to just like start modeling. So I just
kind of said, you know, this is what I'm gonna do.
I find it very hard to believe that you were
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unpopular in high school. I know it's always like the
pretty girl being like, oh boo, who me? I had
no friends, but I really didn't. Like I just like
I had, like my best friend went to a different
high school, so I just didn't really you know. And
then like the guys were just you know, I had
a lot of guy friends, which made the girls not
like it was just like it was dark. I just
didn't I didn't vibe with anyone at my school. So
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were you doing the modeling like while you were in
high school or when you dropped out where you like,
well I got to pivot over and do something. Yeah,
So basically I was just like I told my parents,
I'm like I'm going to drop out. I'm not doing
my senior year, and I'm gonna move to Miami and
I'm going to try to start modeling, and everyone kind
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of just like laughed in my face. So technically I
went out to Miami and you know, kind of started
doing like test shoots and things like that. No one
really like I would meet with these modeling agencies, but
no one really wanted to take a chance with me.
I was kind of this no name. Um, I was five,
I'm five seven, I'm not super tall. I couldn't fit
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into any sample clothing because my chest was so large
at the time, and so I just kind of was
just like no one was working with me, and I
was getting really really frustrated. I think I put into
like a strong year and like just nothing was happening.
And then I had met a one of the New
(17:28):
York modeling agencies. One of the directors was in Miami,
and I got to do like a dinner with him,
and he saw something in me, and we started working together,
and I started going to New York a bit and
bo like booking small things here and there, and then
it was kind of the question of like do I
want to live in New York? Do I want to
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live in California, Like where do I see myself? I
think this was like two years in and my sister
lived in California, so so I moved out and I
was just like suck it, like I want to take
a chance, and like I saw myself like I didn't
see myself fully being a model. I really just wanted
to get more into the entertainment industry. So for me,
it was kind of like how can I kind of
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get in there? And I thought, you know, start modeling
and then slowly can kind of work my way in
And that's kind of what I did. Did you go
to New York? So? New York just wasn't for me,
like I grew like growing up in Florida, like you
just like it was too much. I remember I was
there during one winter and I was just like, there's
no way I'm living here. So California was like I
(18:30):
could work there. There was more work in California than
like Miami. So so I moved to like Beverly Hills
and just like went right into it. And my first
kind of big job in l A was Guess and
then after that, I like book Carl's and it kind
of just like after Carl's it just kind of took
off when you were in Miami. Did you find like
(18:53):
an agent or a manager? How does it work? And yeah, my,
I mean it's just like a sketchy, weird modeling scene.
Like it wasn't like it was just it wasn't great,
and like I had like kind of like a weird
agent that would like send me out on things, but
it was nothing. Nothing, Nothing in Miami was going to
(19:16):
really change my career. And I knew if I stayed there,
I'd literally just be modeling bathing suits every day. So
I knew I kind of needed to like go somewhere
and kind of take it more seriously. I imagine I've
I have never been good looking enough to be a model,
but I imagine that it's a lot more creepy than
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people realize. Oh totally. I even look back on it now,
and the older I've gotten, I've I kind of say
to myself, like because I have two nieces now, these
two beautiful young girls, and I'm like, like, I would
never let my niece model. I would never you know,
if I had a kid, I would never tell them
to go modeling. I mean, things have gotten better, but
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like things I saw at time before all this, it
was just it was grimy. So I don't really I
never I just don't really encourage it after kind of
the things I've seen and gone through. It's it's it's
not the prettiest. I've been to enough fancy Hollywood parties
or whatnot, and you're there and you'll look around. They'll
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be like, you know, a nineteen year old model, and
I'm like, you are just out of high school and
and you're trying to buy a bunch of like really
high powered, like creepy do Like, I don't know, It's
just one of those things where I just always got
the vibe that, like, you have to be really really
tough to be a model. Yeah, And I think from
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growing up and just dealing with assholes all the time,
I just I just always had tough skin. And for
the first year trying to model, everyone was like no, no, no,
And so I built this tough skin. So by the
time I got to l A, I was just kind
of like looking like everyone's telling me no, but I'm
gonna still kind of keep doing it. But but yeah,
I definitely didn't fall into it. It wasn't some easy thing.
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I wasn't like my mom was a successful model, and
I got to just kind of take after her. It
was it was challenging. So you come out to Los Angeles,
you're in Beverly Hills, your first thing you book is
guess I understand how television works, but I don't really
understand how modeling works, Like do you go on auditions
and stuff. Yeah, so I definitely went on like casting
(21:29):
calls and things like that. But oddly enough, for even
for it was weird because my life was always like
castings and things like that. But when I booked Carls,
it was just like a direct booking, which I thought
was so odd. I've never really had that happen, so
that was super exciting. But yeah, it was mostly just
a lot of like casting calls, you do the guest spot,
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and then you book Carl's JR. I guess my first
question is is there's also like the stigma of you know,
models eat like rabbits, you know, like of course let
us and smoothies and whatnot, Like were you a vegetarian
at the time, Like are do you like burgers? Was
that hard for you to do? No, to be totally honest,
(22:14):
I mean at I now that I look back on it.
There was a time I was like vegan, but at
the time I eat burgers all the time. I like
I was you know, I didn't. I was young. I
didn't really care what I was eating. So it wasn't like,
oh my god, I'm eating me, like this is disgusting.
I was. It was. No, it was totally natural and
(22:34):
like obviously, like when I was on set for that spot,
like the burger was being painted on and things like that,
so I kind of I couldn't really eat it like
I kind of And then we were doing so many takes,
so I was definitely spitting it out in between teakes.
But no, I wasn't like afraid to eat me. Now,
did you have any idea how big of a deal
(22:57):
that was going to be at the time. No, to
be honest, they didn't say. They didn't really make it
like oh, this is like a Super Bowl ad because
they didn't fully know, so like no one was really
saying like, oh, this is a Super Bowl ad, blah
blah blah. It was kind of just like, this is
a commercial hopefully it could be you know, in the
Super Bowl. For me, I was just living in the
(23:19):
moment and I was not trying to worry about like
if it was going to ghost anywhere, and like I
had been through so much stuff to where like I
was like, oh, who knows, maybe this won't even go on,
you know. So I wasn't. I didn't put any pressure
on it. I just kind of took it as a
day to day job. And like that's why I think
it was so exciting, because I really had no idea
(23:39):
that magnitude it kind of wouldn't bring. Can I ask
a business question about this, okay, because I'm fascinated with
this because I've done commercials to none of them were
on the Super Bowl, But like, do you get more
money if it gets on the Super Bowl? Or is
it like you've signed kind of a crap contract and
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you don't get more money even though fifty million people
see it on one night. Well, yeah, I mean that's
it's a tough question because I don't probably, But I
think at the time they I think that they were
smart and they got me when I wasn't very known,
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so I got I think I got paid up front
and I got like residuals. But yeah, I think now
if I booked something like that, I probably would have
had a better lawyer. Look um, So it's definitely a
learning experience. Like I think I was so stoked to
just like be able to do that. I wasn't even
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thinking about money or like when they said a rate,
I wasn't trying to make it higher or anything like that.
I was just like, oh my god, I'm getting paid
to do this, Like this is crazy. But like now,
like I have a lawyer who looks over every contract
I do, so so yeah, definitely Carl's got me. Hello,
Yeah that's what I assumed. But I just wanted to
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I wanted to know, well, hey, listen, like I know
that you probably and I and I totally get it.
I can very much empathize with like, yes, I was
on this Carl's Jr. Commercial, but like I'm so much
more than that. But the truth of the matter is,
and the same with me. You need some sort of
way to get the fifteen minutes, and then you have
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to be talented and you have to be hard working
to be able to continue the upward trend of your career,
which you've done really really well. And you know, we
have a lot of reality TV people on this show,
but there's also a lot of a lot of actors,
a lot of musicians, and everyone has a story of
like listen, I needed a break and that was it.
And so I think that that's cool that you had that,
(25:50):
But I also think it's really impressive that you've continued
forward momentum upwards. What was the next big thing after
hold Well? I then I signed with U t A,
the talent agency, and I think I kind of went in.
I went in so naive and young, and they had
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put me on Dancing with the Stars like right after.
And it was really bizarre because at the time, like
when people brought up Dancing with the Stars at you know,
no offense, but it was kind of like the like
the hasbands and older you know people. But I guess
that that that year they were you know, looking into
(26:33):
people who like, we're trending and younger, and they had
like me and Rumor Willis and um like this young
actress and stuff like that. So so I did that. Um,
but after that, I knew I didn't want to do
anything in the reality space. I saw how like manipulous,
(26:53):
like they just kind of pined me as this person
and made me kind of like look a certain way.
So I knew that that's not really not really what
I wanted to do. So it was kind of like
the part of my career I don't I love to
talk about or say I did, but you know, it
is what it is, and you know, I got my
name out there again. So well, I do have friends
that have been on Dancing with the Stars. Actually I
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was on one episode and I was terrible. Stop you
were Yeah, I was like a background dancer for my
friend who was on. But I you know, contrary to
the Carl's contract, I do remember that. Apparently the Dancing
with the Stars contracts not that bad, So you know, totally,
I mean that I knew. I definitely knew why with
my agents at YouTube were pushing me through it like
(27:38):
it wasn't a no brainer. But but yeah, I mean everything,
everything in my career I think has been such a
learning experience and like I'm grateful for any opportunity or
any of those jobs too. I've learned from so many
of those things. So but yeah, I mean I took
it for what it was, got to learn the salsa
and move on. Have you had the I've made it
(27:58):
moment or are you one of those people that will
never give yourself the credit that you probably really deserve.
I am the person who will never give myself the
credit even when I and I'm trying to learn to
kind of live in the moment and be happy with
what I have. But I still feel like right now
I'm nowhere close to that. Especially with acting. I feel
(28:20):
like every role has been pretty mediocre, So I feel
like I feel like I'm not really there yet. Um,
but I'm definitely trying to learn to be a little
nicer to myself and congratulate myself self for the smaller things.
But yeah, I'm pretty hard on myself, and I think
at the end of the day that kind of put
me to where I am and kind of keeps me motivated.
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What's something that you haven't done in your career that
you want to do. I would love to just like
have a reoccurring I mean, I've done a lot of films,
but I would love to have just like a reoccurring
TV role. I grew up watching like I still to
this day. I love watching like Two and a half
Men and things like that. I just love those little
stupid like comedy thirty minutes shows like A Will and
(29:05):
Grace or all that. Like I just I find that
to be so fun. Those are all multicam sitcoms, so
I know I know so and and you know i've
I've I've read for some and I think that's something
I find so fun and challenging at the same time.
What's one piece of advice you'd give to somebody that
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you live by the help continue to be successful in
your career. I would say what I always kind of
told myself was just because one person says no, doesn't
mean everyone else's. You know, my whole life is kind
of these nose and nose and nose. And then I
got that one. It's it's just about getting that one
yes or that one person to see your vision, whether
it's a product or it's you or anything. I think
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it's about just kind of not letting yourself get too
hard on other people's opinion on you because at the
end of the day, it doesn't really matter. So true, Um,
I want to be respectful of your time, so I
don't want to take up too much much more of it.
But I wanted to end the show with with some
rapid fire questions. Are you ready for that? Love it?
Let's do it all right? Here we go rapid Fire
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Questions with Charlotte McKenny. Number one, what's one thing that's
always in your fridge? Water? That's one thing that's on
your bucket list? Um, invisibility or the ability to fly invisibility?
Why Oh I would be so invisible and just do
like shady things I could steal. I could go and
(30:33):
listening on conversations. Oh, I could do so many things.
You need to go read a book or like me,
I listened. I listened to books. Um, there's an amazing
book called The Visible Man, and it's all about this
guy who makes an invisibility cloak effectively, and his whole
thing is that he likes to go and just watch people.
(30:53):
It's it's amazing. What animals you wish you could talk to? Dogs,
Physical trait you notice about someone you are attracted to.
Last person you texted my mom, waffles, your pancakes neither?
What's your breakfast go to? I don't. I just don't
like waffles and pancakes. I just never got into it.
I think I'm I don't know, I'd rather get like
(31:15):
a smoothie bowl or something. I don't know. I'm just
not a pancake person. I love my sweets. Though, do
you believe in soulmates? Yes? Who is your childhood hero?
My mom? Who's your celebrity crush? Paul? That is every
woman's celebrity crush. It's amazing. Whether you were born in
nineteen nine or whether you're born in two thousand and twelve,
(31:39):
it's still Paul Rods. Do you have a nickname? And
if you do, what is it and do you go
by it? Yeah? Sharny. My parents, my sister, everyone I
grew up with called me Sharnie. Favorite pizza topping? Um?
Oh uh, normal cheese. Who's your first kiss? Oh god,
I don't even know what's a name. So that poor
(32:01):
guy is listening to this and being like, man, I'm
going to tell you to save my life. Oh my god,
because you know how you know how Pumpty is about
that story in his life, Like, do you know how
many times he's told that and you don't even remember him? Yeah? Sorry,
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can't celebrity. You've been mistaken for Taylor Swift actually when
I was younger. Really, yeah, you're much shorter than her.
Who would you call to get you out of jail?
My dad? Who's the most famous first person in your
cell phone? Oh? I'm not answering that, all right. When
you win your oscar, who are you gonna think first?
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Everyone who told me no to keep me going? I
love that. Really, that's on that. Charlotte, thank you so
much for being on the Welles cast. Really cool story
it was. It was such a pleasure. I'm so glad
I got to meet you. You're so handsome and kind
and easy to talk to, so thanks for making that
so fun, and I look forward to talk to you
(33:05):
again soon. Yeah, one day we'll all actually be able
to leave our houses and I'm sure i'll see you
what some weird Hollywood party? And yeah, and I'm hoping
to build up a podcast sometime soon too, so you'll
you'll be one of my guests. I'd love to love it, alright,
hon have a good one, all right, don't forget everybody.
(33:25):
Go to a shop Bola dot com to find those
fitness successories. Go to h The Good Chocolate dot com
to get yourself the detox bar. Where do people follow
you on social media? Just my name, Charlotte McKinney, nothing crazy,
all right, Thanks so much, enjoyed the day. All the
best to you. Buy well. She was lovely. I think
that might be our first drop out of high school
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story for her man, she was able to make a
dollar at a dime, and she's got modeling, she's got
commercial work. She's in the fitness space, she's in the
food space, she's an actress. You've done a lot. Pretty cool. Alright, guys,
that is it for me. Don't forget to follow Wells
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algorithm makes the show more popular. And don't forget to
thank everyone who told me no to keep me going. Alright, guys,
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