T TIME with Theresa - Season 4, Episode 35 “She’s the King”

T TIME with Theresa - Season 4, Episode 35 “She’s the King”. Hosted by Theresa Farrell. Tonight's guest is Model and Podcast Host Gail Margaret King. T TIME with Theresa is aired live on Strong Island Television from Paradise Studios NY - www.strongisland.com

#Ttime #TalkShow #TV #Movies #Entertainment #Celebrities #Actors #StrongIslandTV #StrongIsland #LongIsland #Nassau #Suffolk #Brooklyn #Queens #NewYork

Episode Transcript

(00:05):
Good evening and welcome to tee Time. Hey, everybody, welcome to tea

(01:23):
Time. I'm so glad you're joiningme tonight. It is a Monday,
June twenty fourth, and yeah,I think it's like the last Monday in
June. July is around the corner. It's crazy. A I gonna talk
about my weekend real quick. Getto my in studio guests. Friday Saturday,
I really didn't do too much.I really was studying and learning lines
because Sunday I filmed out in Medforda film called Honestly and I had a

(01:51):
blast working with the cast and Lauren, who wrote, uh wrote the script.
I'm actually gonna have it on inSeptember and we're going to get into
the script and the filming. Butyeah, that was it. You know,
Sunday's laundry day because we all needclean underwear. All right, that's
it. I'm going to get tomy guests because I'm so excited. She's
here. She's in she is amodel, she was a podcast host.

(02:17):
She also got into acting later inlife, so she's done everything. Gail
Margaret King, Hi, I'm sogood to be here. I know you
and I met years ago as Itwas actually twenty eighteen when you and I
met, can you imagine at aat a fundraiser, that's right, And

(02:38):
was so impressed by you and whatyou've done later in life as a career,
and uh, yeah, we've beenwanting to do this for a while.
And I'm so glad we're finally You'refinally here. Thank you, very
very good to be here. Yeah. I love and I love what you
do because you're so inspiring. Sooriginally from Long Island, Long Island girl,

(03:01):
yes, right, went to highschool. Yeah. And when you
were in high school, what didyou aspire to be? I was in
high school honor Society. I wantedto be a teacher. That was my
goal more than anything in life,which I eventually ended up. You would

(03:21):
teach and teachout English. My sisterwas the popular one, the cheerleader,
the one who could sing. Ihad no boys. We inherited a violin.
I had to give it up becauseI was that bad. Oh jeez.
I did perform at Carnegie Hall.Was my sister in ballet recitals,
But to be honest, they tookme because of her. She was it.

(03:46):
Wow. I think I started tocome a little bit more into my
own in college, and yet mysenior year I was run up to Queen
with no date. That's true.That's true. And you went to college.
Where'd you go to college? Well? I went to what was adel
By Suffolk and then it became Dowling. I was one of the first to
graduate from there. I graduated numbertwo from there and then went to Stonybrook.

(04:11):
Okay, and you did you Youtaught English, life school English and
college English, so like thirty thirtyseven years, very seven years. But
something happened after your third year ofteaching when you were only twenty five years
old. I wasn't feeling well,and you know yourself when you're just not
with it. And I think evensome of my students had noticed. I

(04:35):
was losing weight and not well.And what happened is I had breast cancer.
I had gone to a Stonybrook graduatecourse, and I'll tell you that
that professor probably will never know thatshe saved my life. Wow. When
I arrived there, people were talking. There were five hundred to a class,
so you could imagine how Lord's thatis. And I was just listening.

(04:58):
But I wasn't feeling well, hadn'tbeen feeling well. For a few
months. We were coming upon easterbreak and the professor drew a picture of
a breast on the blackboard, andI said, what is she doing.
This is supposed to be women andliterature. People were ignoring her, and
a couple of us perhaps listened.And what she did was explain that a

(05:18):
friend of hers, another professor,had gone to a doctor and that she
had not realized that she had cancer, and she was showing us how to
examine your breast. Wow. Iwent home that night. I was living
in Farmingville at the time, andI did it while Barry Manilow were singing
his Mandy and I found a lump. But I have to tell you,

(05:40):
Teresa, it wasn't that lump.It was underneath it where the cancer was.
Okay, A few weeks later,I went to the first doctor at
twenty five. I went to fivedoctors before they finally said, let's put
you in and let's see what it'sall about. Her. I remember nobody
had to twenty five at that time, and nobody was talking about breast cancer.

(06:03):
There were no they didn't have amammograms group. No, they had
nothing like that, and it's sorare. It was I mean it's rare,
I know in younger people and inmen. Yes, But back then,
did they dismiss you in the beginning? Absolutely. One doctor said,

(06:24):
you know, as my husband atthe time, is she looking for attention?
Is she depressed? Is she lookingfor something else? And I kept
saying, but there is a lumpthere, and they kept saying nothing.
You know at your age, nothingyou know your body and my parents there's
nobody in the family that had cancerhistory. I didn't smoke, I didn't
drink. You know, we couldn'tfigure this out. But I knew there

(06:47):
was something wrong. I was gettingrareshes and that's what my students had noticed,
in addition to the loss of weight. And I went to an allogist
and I was allergic to everything.I said, how could that be?
And then finally, if somebody Ihad babysat for her children years ago,
said there's a doctor in Bay Shore. I want you to go to him.

(07:08):
I know you, Gail, thisis not you looking for attention.
You don't even go to doctors.And I went to see this doctor and
he said, you definitely have alump there. But the odds of ten
thousand and to one, the day. Yes, the day that he told
me was the day before Easter,and he was such a lovely man.
He's no longer alive, but heactually had tears in his eyes and he

(07:30):
said, you remind me of mydaughter. And we just developed a great
rapport and I trusted him totally.Now, this was in a Bay Shore
hospital where I was born Southside,didn't even go to Slung Kettering, but
he sent the biopsy to Slung Ketteringto make sure that the results were correct.
Yes, yeah, wow. Andat that time, what percentage?

(07:56):
What did they tell you? Likewe did not have no bruce, like
it was staged. You know thisnumber, that number they told me I
had thirty percent chance as survival afterthe next year when I got pregnant,
I'm a bit of a rebel andI wanted a baby so badly, which
I have to tell you, Ihad maya. Yeah, it was a
speech you know, therapist, andI have two grandchildren because of that.

(08:20):
It was meant to be. Yeah, I believe everything's meant to be.
I really do. And you know, things happen in life and sometimes we
want to know why, and wequestion, but I never questioned that.
You know, people will say whyyou, and I have to say why
not me? Yeah, why notthe next person? And I also feel

(08:41):
that part of it was given tome, if you will, because I
was to share this with other people. It was my obligation, my duty,
and I promised God, if Icould make this, I will make
sure and I get emotional stright tohelp other people. Yeah, and believe
me, given thirty percent chance,yeah, I was so fortunate sure and

(09:03):
being able to give back. Andyou cancer free all these years now.
I'm sorry, you cancer free allthese years now? Thank God fifty In
a way I gave it away.I have no you know what. I
am so blessed to have each year. Yes, because the first year was
tough. Yeah, I got pregnantand I said, if only I could
see my daughter, you know,in kindergarten. Then it became if I

(09:24):
could see Harry get yeah, yeah, all the babies, all those things.
And you know what was interesting isthat people were terrific. My school
supported me in so many ways.They came to see me, they made
sure I was because you had totake a leave absence for a while.
I did, and I was oneof the first people in the whole school
that this happened to and they werejust shocked. Now I have to learn

(09:48):
curve for them as well. Definitely, And I have to say that my
students and their parents, many ofthem. So at that time, in
nineteen seventy five, you could catchcancer. So there was a big stigma.
Wow. And my students had writtento me and we're asking, you
know, is it okay if youcome back, will I catch it?

(10:09):
And I went back to school,but I guess about six weeks I was
in the hospital five weeks, somaybe six weeks. I was taped from
here to hear. I wanted themto see that I'm okay, and if
I'm okay, you have to beokay with it, and they were amazing.
Other people are a little more skeptical. Yeah, but there were no

(10:31):
mammograms. There were nothing like that. So I had to do a lot
of my own research and I wentto Stonybrook University and that's how I found
some of the things that would helpme. For example, Norman Cousins,
who wrote Anatomy of a Disease,a marvelous book. If ever anybody's in
a situation where you need help,his whole premise is that it surrounds yourself.

(10:54):
It was positivity and humor, andwe actually had a little sign,
do not enter if you're going tocry. Oh. The first day people
were coming and crying and it's soemotional and I didn't want to crying.
I get it. And because Iwas only twenty five, it's also that
feeling of I can conquer the world, right. I do remember praying that

(11:16):
God would give me the dignity andgrace that if this was my time,
I would handle it was decorum,but that wasn't what I probably was really
thinking. I saw it a littletough girl, I'm going to beat it.
Yeah, And so I think Ithink a lot, yes, a
lot of it is mental. Theysay you really need a positive mind frame,
a frame of mind to just youknow, stay in a positive light,

(11:39):
so to speak. It's so easyto throw in the towel, but
it's so hard to fight. Andthat's what you have to do. You
have to you have to kind ofput on your box and gloves and say,
you know what this is it,I'm gonna I'm gonna beat this and
I'm gonna fight it now. Andyou know, we talked briefly before the
show and nine years ago when Iwas diagnosed with a brain too right right,

(12:00):
and I went through that, thefirst thing I did was I got
rid of every toxic person in mylife because they cause stress, and stress
shortened your life, and I don'twant to shorten my life. And you
know, and then again, youwant to surround yourself with positivity, laughter,
people that lift you up and makeyou feel good and not you know,
bring you down. And I think, I think it's so so important.

(12:24):
It's a positive mind frame, youknow. I think they say that,
well it mentally it's half the battle. And I also think that,
you know, if if you lookpretty well, you'll feel better about with
that put on, the makeup puton. My mother brought me this beautiful
pen water I have to know whatthey look like with the wires and the
tubes and hooked up to machines anda penwa set for anyone who doesn't know,

(12:48):
is basically a really pretty It's likeit's like a long lingerie gown with
a pretty matching yeah, I meanany color you want. Most of them
are white. Well, they comein like a baby pink. But it's
just a long, flowy gown withlike a nice cover to put on so
my mother put a ribbon in myhair. I put on lipstick, and

(13:11):
there were so many beautiful flowers,which eventually I gave to other patients.
But here's the other thing that wasbeautiful. They allowed me because at that
time people smoked in the hospitals,which was terrible. Yeah, but they
allowed me the freedom to get aroundonce I was past the critical stage.
So I actually took the tubes wiresand they went to visit the children's ward

(13:33):
and I read to them and theysaid I was a princess because the way
we were dressed. Were in therewho had cancer, and they saw me
in this beautiful white outfit and theyI saw myself reflected in them, and
suddenly it was very very special.Now my dad was training to be a
Golden Glover. Oh wow. Yeah, and he was my best friend in

(13:58):
the whole world. And when hecame in one day, you know,
I said to him that everybody's gonenow, you know, the back oftification
school. Am I going to die? And my father never lied to me.
And he turned and he stopped andhe looked at me and he said
no. And I said, well, how do you know that? And
he said, because I won't letyou. And with that he walked back

(14:22):
and he put up his hand ina fist, and I believed him.
Yeah, that is so important.It is it really, it really is.
That's great. I love I lovethat. I love that I have
to take my first break. We'regoing to take Yes, we're gonna take
me my first break. Already itgoes so fast. But listen, please
stay there more with girl. Afterthis mess after these messages, don't go

(14:45):
away. Wonder woman everything to littlegirls, especially that look like me.
She stands for being a voice forpeople that need a voice. My organization

(15:09):
renovates homes for people with disabilities,and when I come home a self care
routine makes me feel my best.I'm very proud of the difference that we're
making. It. To see thatimpact in my community inspires me to work
even harder for everyone around me.All right, is everybody having a good

(15:33):
time to night? An That's whatI thought? All right, So we
are live Paradise Studios from New York. Keep yourself around with Plus coming out
tonight. Well, Hi there,Teresa, It's John Yorke from General Hospital.

(16:00):
I am just checking in because apparentlyyou have a great talk show called
Tea Time on Strong Island TV.I want you to have continued great success
and have a lot of fun.It sounds like you're having a lot of
fun and that's pretty much the keyto everything, isn't it. So continued
success. I'm proud of you.Have a great day, Teresa. Bye.

(16:26):
Hey everybody, welcome back to TeaTime. I'm so glad you're joining
me. I'm with Gail Margaret King. We're talking about how she was an
English teacher for many years and onlyin her third dy of teaching, when
she was twenty five, she founda lump and it turned out to be
breast cancer. And how years ago, you know, they didn't have everything
that they had today, and youknow she taught for thirty eight years.
And I just want to mention someaccolades here. You were inducted into the

(16:49):
Academy for Teaching and Learning, awardeda scope and All Star Teachers Award,
and your lessons were actually implemented byschools among islands. So who knows to
you? Thank you? It's abeautiful That's something I always wanted to do.
He just knew you wanted to teawhen it was very little. I
would bribe the children in the neighborhood, the younger kids, and give them

(17:11):
soda that my father used to getfor free from a client and make them
sit there and listen. It wasjust something. You know, education is
so important, and to me gettingmy first library card at age yes,
I remember that that was a bigdeal. It was a very big deal.
Yes. And and I know you'rean avid reader. When I was
a kid, I hated reading.I'm putting it out there. I just

(17:33):
couldn't stand it. But now itis as an adult, I love reading.
I love it. I just Ican't get enough. I had books
when you were reading almost a booka day. I do. I still
do. It's still so exhausted.If I can't sleep of them, I'll
just go to You have a certaingenre you like to read well, I
interviewed James Patterson. Yes, he'sjust number one mystery. I love it,

(17:57):
and I keep talking about one dayI will write you know who murdered
the Beauty Queen? Yes, becauseI think eventually I'm going to end up
doing that. I've tried so manydifferent genres of area and I think that
would really be something special for me. But yeah, I love to read.
That to me, and the teachershelped me so much. You know,
I would go to school and Ijust I enjoyed it. Who's watching

(18:22):
your sister? Did you said?What's your sister's name? Joanne? Or
is it Maya? Maya? Maya'smy daughter? Oh Maya, I'm Maya
Halloween. Thank you for watching.You have a beautiful mom. Okay,
so let's jump to two thousand andnine. Two thousand and nine you decided
to enter, and you're going totell me how this happens and why.

(18:44):
But in two thousand and nine youwere crowned Miss New York Senior America.
And we're going to put up apic which I have there. You are.
That's one of one of many picks, but we have some at the
actual crowned when you won. Wow, look at that. But I went
on to win the whole country.Yes, you won the entire country.

(19:07):
You took the whole kitten kaboodle thatwas the Senior America. Yes, thank
you for that. And yeah,what an experience. And I know how
did that happen? Okay, tellyou a few things. It's kind of
first, I think you have tobe sixty and over and sixty year over.
Okay, first of all, secret, little secret, I'm going to

(19:29):
be sixty in September. Oh youlook so good, thank you, But
that's young. First of all,you know Bernie Siegat one of his books,
you know, he had said,what was it? What was this
disease? Teach you to do?What will it allow you to do?
So for me, if I conqueredthat, I'm going to step outside the
box. Yes, and I'm goingto try something new. Good More magazine

(19:52):
was pretty big at the time.Yes, and I offered to write an
article about just entering this pageant tosee what would happen. Okay, not
expecting to win. I was nota beauty queen like that. And honestly,
the only beauty queens I saw theywere all one and blue art and
they were ready to go. Ididn't fit that little talk my hair.

(20:15):
I didn't fit that mold. Yes, and as the dress that you had
seen up there, it was alittle bit different. I threw my hair
to one side and I Sahili acrossand it was fun. It was four
days. The other thing is whenI entered to start with, and I
had to win the New York inorder to go to the Nationals. My
significant other, Shelly Cohen, helpedme when I went into to see if

(20:36):
it was okay for me. Igot nervous because I saw so much talent
and I hadn't done anything and dancedsince I was a teenager. Yes,
because you were judged in talent andphilosophy of life modeling and an interview and
you decided to do dance. WhenI walked in, I said to him,
nobody knows me. Let's just walkthrough the door. And he turned

(21:00):
to me he said, it's notabout winning, it's the dignity of trying.
He's doing it, just doing it. I was hard say I did
it? Did you have to saythat? I was just believe me?
It was like the road want tobe Baby? I was when I saw
them because I wasn't that talented.And on the stage, my costume came
in and even though I'm kind oftiny, the costume it looked like it

(21:23):
was for about a ten year old. So I always wondered how I want,
But the costume was like that,and I remember the director saying,
oh, oh no, that isnot your costume. It's just a rod.
That day and I put it onand I did the best I could
do. It was awful. SoI went to Victi Amore once I knew
I had to go on to competein the nationals, and he took the

(21:45):
time to teach me, and believeme, I spent four to five hours,
because you actually you actually took dancefor like thirteen years at one point,
but here I was sixty and Ihadn't You aren't new to it.
I mean it was something that youjust went back to, exactly like riding
a bicycle tea. I know,I know, no, I know,
I did tap dance for fourteen fifteenyears and putting on my tap shoes tomorrow

(22:07):
not exactly the same. And Iwas competing with people who were in the
performed at the White House, performedhere, it performed there. So it
was exciting, yes, but itwas lyrical dance. Is that what it
was? It was a ballet dance, right, and it was from West
Side Story. Okay, everything aboutme was a little different than was a

(22:29):
little bit expected, but in away that's good because it makes you stand
out. It was it's memorable thatI heard that, Yeah, I did
hear that. And then you hadto do your philosophy and I wanted to
use this to spread the world aboutovercoming cancer. Again, that was my
goal. I wanted to step outsidethe box. I wanted to not give

(22:52):
into my fear. And I haveto tell you that first few days of
every year going to school and teaching, I almost threw up. I was
that nervous. I was very shy. I was not the child that would
be an extrovert. The kids wouldgrab my mother would say, oh,
you come back in a few hours. Here's your little egg, here's your
hostess cupcake. We'll see you later. That's how it was in those days.

(23:14):
And I was the one that wouldtake off and explore, going into
ponds. We had a lot ofwildlife. I grew up with chickens.
We had a lot of stuff likethat. So I was kind of a
loner that way. So to standin front of a class, even though
I wanted to, it was abig deal. It's a it's a fear
that you have. So now Ihad to stand in front of thousands of
people. Yes, yes, becauseyou know, getting this title parleyed you

(23:38):
into you know, obviously bigger andbetter things. Yeah, you were all
over the place, and it alsogave you a new self confidence, absolutely,
yourself growing unbelievably and being very nearsightedhelps too. I can't even see
the monitor. And so after youwon, you you've made you made my

(24:00):
over five hundred different pieces around thecountry, to a hospital, gets to
the Today Show in Florida. Iwas seen on the Today Show in New
York. Anywhere that I could go, Stonybrook, anywhere that people needed someone
to speak. In Tennessee, Iremember speaking before a group of women,
and then I also spoke at aluncheon and I spoke about people who had

(24:21):
to overcome cancer. I went toStonybrook and they had me come out and
speak. But what I liked isthat I learned how to speak to different
groups. My husband who died inmy arms of pancreatic cancer. I was
able to speak to people who hadlost somebody or who were going through it.
People would ask me, what canI do to help this particular person.

(24:44):
And that's where I think I shownbecause I remembered all that what were
some of the things you could do? No, it's so important that you
can relay that to somebody because youwent through the more difficult to watch somebody
else. It is, it is, it's so true. And it's hard
for the people around you when youloved ones, you know, because they

(25:07):
know who I am. I knowthe strength and the inn strength. And
though I'm not very religious, I'mvery spiritual, right right, And that's
something that you also turn to.You turn to. I'm more of like
a self awareness. You do alot of visual visualization techniques and and and
and everyone praise in their own wayif you have a belief and meditation.

(25:33):
I pray that I become a betterperson. And sometimes it's not easy.
It's not easy. It's not onlythat what did I do? Now,
we're human and we make you know, we make mistakes and we do things.
I learned from my mistake. That'sit's trying not to repeat that insanity,
right, computing the same mistakes.But yeah, and you so this

(26:00):
led to modeling. It led toagain actually led to my show. Well
let's see, okay, so youshow the show the show. You had
a talk show called Looking King andand there's the King. The King was
capped looking to make a difference withGail and you did that for eight years
and it was a very inspirational show. You know, you touched upon subjects

(26:22):
like drugs and gangs and animal rightsand such children who were abused. I
went into as much as I couldget into. It wasn't about me,
just like the cancer was no longerabout me. It was what could I
do to help other people? Andthat was intrinsic to helping others. And
it was just incredible the responses andthe places that I was invited to afterwards

(26:44):
because of this particular show. Andthat's what actually led into the modeling,
because it is it because something wentviral or someone saw you on one I
was on social media and I wason face Book, and so many wonderful
people watching the show, and Ijust put it out there. I saw
one particular comment, yeah, wellno, no. I saw a particular

(27:11):
fashion designer and I said, I'dlike to walk in your show one day,
and she said, well, comeon and let's see what you's see
what you like. And that camefrom having the confidence to say it out
absolutely well, what could happen?Well you could do with saying because a
twenty four year old wouldn't have saidit. Yeah, yeah, And here
I was coming in and I walkedand from there it went from one to

(27:33):
another to another. Yeah. Soif you have any excitement, any dreams,
do it? You know what,because you know, I know your
biggest mantra is never give up absolutely. And also for love yourself. If
you don't love yourself, how areyou going to love other people? And
how do you love yourself by tryingto be the best that you could be

(27:56):
by surrounding yourself with people who arepositive, you know, and be spiritually
giving, yes, and give ofyourself. Yes, yeah, I believe
it. I believe it. Butagain, let's let's tell I'm gonna take
my next break and when we comeback, we're gonna see pictures of the
modeling. Don't go away, We'llbe back. Wonder Woman was everything to

(28:32):
little girls, especially that looked likeme. She stands for being a voice
for people that need a voice.My organization renovates homes for people with disabilities,
and when I come home a selfcare routine makes me feel my best.
I'm very proud of the difference thatwe're making. It. To see

(28:52):
that impact in my community inspires meto work even harder for everyone around me.
Hi. I'm Georgia Rose, founderof Zancuda. You can watch me
on the soul Space podcast every Fridayat noon on Channel twenty for spiritual guidance.
And as you all know, thatis how I first opened into my
own psychic gifts was through the angelicrealm astrology. And so we've got Mars

(29:15):
and the Sun together in Scorpio,which creates a lot of combustion. In
the astrological world, we call itAkazini and taro. When the four cups
right side up, it means wehave a lot of choices to make,
and we're not looking at what's reallybeing divinely given to us. We're too
busy in the busyness of the choicesto really see the divine intervention of divine
timing and find I where the placeWatch the Soul Space podcast. I don't

(29:53):
sell the voice fla today. Whyare you watching me? You should be
watching Teresa Tee Time with Teresa KundasJracy Fowrel. Make sure you follow Teresa
on Facebook Tea Time with Teresa KindasRacy Fowrel. We'll see you there the
way you say my name. Hey, everybody, welcome back to Tea Time.

(30:15):
I'm gonna mention murdered by the mobthere. I am as Bunny.
Yes, murdered by themop dot com. Go see when we're doing shows.
It's at the Iron Bar in thecity. It's a murder mystery. It's
the longest murder mystery in Manhattan thirtyyears. You eat, you send,
your dance, you drink. It'svery interactive. Uh and it's fun.
All right. Help you join meone night at the show. Getting back

(30:38):
to Gail Margaret King, because she'shad an amazing life, an amazing career.
It just and it just continues,continues continues. You know, the
uh the uh Miss Senior America andthen you won the whole country led to
modeling and you said, oh,I want to walk home one of your
shows and that's it. Hello,And then she's been doing it. So

(31:00):
I just want to say that Idon't have her stats for this year twenty
twenty four, but I will tellyou in twenty twenty three she had twenty
one fashion shoots, which led herto twenty one covers. Okay, that's
that was last year people, SoI mean, you know, okay,
so we're gonna throw up some picsof some print work that you've done,

(31:22):
which is just amazing. I mean, and I want to know, do
you get to keep any of theclothes or shoes. Sometimes many times you
will get discounts. Sometimes you'll giveyou the things. And I have to
mention my photographer in many of thecases is Shelly Cohen me and you will

(31:44):
also in Times Square yeah more thanonce, correct eight times that we have
that pick. That's surreal when youlook up and you see yourself in your
Time Square in so many men askyou if you wanted to dump the lady

(32:04):
and there is dancing. How coolis that? I have five covers coming
out and that red one is oneof the colors. You love it.
It is so cool. And thenjust more covers, more covers, more
print work. I mean it justgoes on. That was a funny one.

(32:25):
That was funny. That looks kindof sexy. Tody Well, I
did a little thing on the eldestJohn a video and just having fun.
Yeah, but these are fun thenjust beautiful, thank you beautiful And you
know it's funny is that you knowin marveling and I don't know, you

(32:45):
look different in every picture. Yes, it's so weird. I think it
depends on the makeup, the lighting, what you're wearing, these thieves,
the set, the set, Yes, the act, interior, exterior,
and the acting. My mother wouldn'teven recognized me in some of the things.
That reason, I did a lotof royal pains, a lot of
a lot of yea and yeah,we're gonna ge we're gonna talk about that.

(33:07):
I didn't even recognize me that havemy hair here or there? Part
of this way you have do youhave a room in the house that is
your closet, because a closet foryou can't work for you. You have
four more closets closet. I dohave one, which is a walking which
I just love. There's a lotof the gowns I'm dying go to heaven

(33:28):
for walking cloths and shoes, youknow, the yeah, boots and everything.
But I will say that I dodonate a lot of the gowns for
kids for proms. Last year.Yes, and I have a granddaughter gorgeous,
you know, granddaughters turned fifteen andshe's got a cart blank to go
into my closet and pick whatever shewould like to pick. And a lot

(33:49):
of people do. They'll go inand say I like that, big I
went. There aren't too many teaI have to say this to listen to
me I've lost a ton of weight. I were not your size woman.
I'm down to a four, whichis great, and I'm vertically challenged as
well. Come on over. Butthere aren't too many teenages out there that

(34:10):
could shop in their grandmother's closet.Okay, that's all I'm saying. But
I just love that particular room.And yeah, it's a lot of fun.
It's got the crowns and it's justjust a fun place. It's a
make belief place. Yeah, anddoesn't every child, you know, little
girl will have absolutely as a kid, you're putting on your mom's heels and

(34:31):
the lipstick and the dress and okay, you know, playing dress up,
you know, and to do itprofessionally and get paid for it, and
to be able to do it andthen at this age, Yeah, that's
another thing, you know, Iwant to show. I want to see
more mature models. I hope Ireally do hear that. I think,
No, I think the more maturemodels I think there should be. Look,

(34:53):
I know the average size for awoman is a twelve or fourteen,
and I also know that the averageheight is like five to four, you
know, So yeah, I meanto see real people, you know,
I think and I know that nowbeing plus sized model is much more accepted

(35:19):
today than it was years ago.It is, you know, I want
to a long way. I'd liketo see a healthy plus Absolutely. I
am not a proponent where somebody isso heavy, so obese that you don't
look healthy. I want to givea message to the kids. But I
think it's all about health. Justas when I was growing up, Twiggy

(35:40):
was the thin. Women were starvingthemselves to be like that and that's not
good. And we know of peoplewomen who actually died. So I like
it. And you are getting alittle bit of everything now. But again
you're right, and I think that'shelping me get so many of the covers.
They don't know my age. Manytimes now they will, but they

(36:04):
really didn't. They thought I wasa lot younger. And you know,
I know we said I'm a maturemodel. I never hid it from anybody.
But I think that's very important.And I'm only five four, maybe
a little taller, not even no, I think I'm five four and I'm
ninety pounds, you know, butthat's just that I can't gain the weight,
but you can't gain the weight.Please over the Yeah, don't be

(36:29):
hating people, but you can't gainthe weight. I never had that issue,
Teresa. I went to a nutritionnessand she said, it's more difficult.
You have like a hyperactive metabolism orsomething. But she said, it's
more difficult to gain weight than itis to lose weight. I've even taken
insure. I've had a whole cakescakes at the time. I have that
particular difficulty, and it is whatit is. Yeah, I keep saying

(36:52):
when I was twenty one, fortygame weight right, because they say as
you get older, you know,as when you're younger and the weight comes
on. I just want to behealthy healthy, That's all that matters,
you know, and feel healthy inyour own skin out and say, listen,
I've battled you. Look, I'vebattled the bulge my entire life,

(37:13):
and I've never looked as healthy orbeen as healthy as I am now.
And I know over the years youhave to retrain your brain and you really
have to be aware mindfulness of whatI'm what I'm eating, because you eat
without thinking and you just you knowwhat I'm saying. But it's it's a
battle that I face every day,you know, being aware of three of

(37:37):
those three meals, you're thank you. I appreciate it. I do appreciate
it. But when you know,when you're a size eight and you're standing
next to someone who's a size zeroor two, you look like the Hindenburg
next to them. I mean it'sfunny. And you do TV and put
that puts fifteen pounds on you.So I mean it's you know, you
know it just it is. Itis. It's a double zero. That's

(37:58):
when I start to try to gainmore waight right, that's my problem.
Yeah, Now you did all thisprint work, which was beautiful. You've
done You've covered red carpet events,You've interviewed everyone from the Housewives to the
Long Island Medium, and you've modeledfor quite a few top designers as well.

(38:19):
Yes, I have Fashion Week comingup in September. Awesome. I'm
very excited. We have a couple. I think we have a couple more
picks right that we can throw upfashion weekends is in September, I'll be
I think we have a couple moretowards the Oh wow, that's gorgeous,
just beautiful, just beautiful? Isthat it? I don't know? All

(38:40):
right, I have get Pamela Quincy'sshow coming up. Okay, Anastasia on
the twelfth, nice, and thenI'll be walking in Bronx Fashion Week for
the first time. The oh yes, yes, and also they have contests.
I don't know if you want meto share a little bit well before
we get to that, because that'sthe last thing we're going to actually talk

(39:02):
about. But I do want totalk about how you started your third career
in acting. Okay, it's likethe third act you In twenty sixteen,
you did something called drop Off,which was a short film written by our
friend Will Marcano. He wrote itand he directed it. And that was

(39:24):
with John Morola, who actually ownsMurdered by the Mob, and Kyle Grant
and Nancy Cullen. And then youwent on to do other work as featured
extras on Lauren Order, thirty Rock, Royal Pains, like you mentioned life
on mars pan Am, Extreme Forensics, and recently you did it was It

(39:45):
the Affair and it was on showThe Last One, Right. I went
to Abrams Agency, and it's funnybecause they ended up pretty modeling, I
guess the acting. And I hadtaken a few acting classes because everybody said
we're actress than muddle. But youstill But this third act of you is
you start. And I want everyoneto know this. You started in your

(40:06):
sixties. You know, it's it'sokay. I've had so many people say,
I'm now forty, I'm fifty,I want to go to college,
but it's too late. And I'mthinking, you're going to be sixty one
day too. Why not go tocollege? Now? Why not do it?
You're going to be that age anyway. And I believe that doing this
and changing and reinventing yourself, Ithink it keeps you younger. Yes,

(40:30):
yes, I mean you're exhausted,but but I love that. You know,
I'll sleep when I'm ready to goto sleep. Yeah, yeah,
you know what you're saying, right. That's like when people offer me to
do something, I say yes allthe time and then I figure it out.
But again, it's something that youdon't know who you're going to meet,

(40:52):
where you're going to be, whatit might parley into. And you
know, it's about networking and togetting apart blue bloods. And this is
a woman has only taken a fewacting lessons in her life. And I
got a call back and somebody elseit was, oh, let's see his
it was a female detective mother,right, the mother or the female Yeah.

(41:15):
Yeah, that's great that you gotthe call back. It just shows
you that they did like you.That's what I had it, No,
I mean look, I mean Iwas so sure because I even spoke Spanish,
right, everything to do to getthat. But okay, but then
I had other parts. Uh thenyou know Evangelina Joline the movie where I
was staying next to her and theguy was trying to take a picture and
he fell. Oh my gosh.That was just like a lot of exciting

(41:38):
things. And then they started topull me out featured you know, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, itwas fun. Yeah yeah, Now
are you working on any kind ofmovie now or something. In fact,
I had to give up my SAGbecause I found with modeling and stuff,
it's better when you don't have sagayill more and you get more opportunities.

(42:02):
But there was more money. Insaid, it was nice to bring home
a paycheck being a feature extra andmaking good salary that particular day. That
was a lot of fun. Soyeah, that was exciting. That was
great. It's amazing. This isact act three again. You never know
one thing will lead to another.And that's why I love what you said.
Don't close the door, don't sayno. You'll figure it out.

(42:22):
And if you can't, you can'tif you make a mistake, I say,
I don't want to knock on doors, want to? I don't want
to knock on doors. I wantto kick them in. And in this
career that we're in in the entertainmentindustry, you know, because it's like
throwing spaghetti up against the wall andseeing what sticks. You know, just
you know, you never know,and if not you, somebody else and

(42:43):
you can't take it. You cannottake it personally because I know I lost
two gigs because I was too short. Again I'm five too. I'm like,
how old? How old are you? How old are you? I'm
like, I'm five too, butwith heels I five exactly, And you
know, what are you gonna do? It's you know, it was modeling.
I had a couple of big agentswho said, love your look,

(43:06):
and I look taller because I'm inproportion, yes, and that throws people
off. And then I gave theheight that oh actually said, oh but
again, if not, do youprefer for yourself? Do you prefer print
or runway? Do you have aI love both. Yeah, you know
it's I see the cameras and itis making love to the camera, whether

(43:27):
you are acting or you're modeling.And if you could see that it's a
relationship. You show the video withme walking, you'll see what I mean,
your relationship can show? Can weshow that video it's walking? We
might as well throw it out sevenoutfits? There we go seven. You

(43:51):
know that it would be unu Youknow that I would be on my worst
say too much like a little wall. I was like, okay, seven,

(44:19):
this isn't working. This is thelast one, like four hours of
work here, but it is.But but the musical it's sexy. Yeah.
Yeah, And you know what,it's different. You have different personas.
Now I'm going to show you myother side. I do not believe
we are all one thing. Ithink we are a matrix of different things.
Yeah. So you can be sexy, you can be cute, you
can be coy, you can beso many different, can still be you?

(44:42):
Yeah. I love that it's goodand evil in all of us.
Oh yeah, hey, listen,I hate to be evil right now.
But we got to take my lastbreak, all right, So don't go
away. We'll be back after thiswonder woman was everything to little girls,

(45:09):
especially that looked like me. Shestands for being a voice for people that
need a voice. My organization renovateshomes for people with disabilities, and when
I come home a self care routinemakes me feel my best. I'm very
proud of the difference that we're making, and to see that impact in my

(45:30):
community inspires me to work even harderfor everyone around me. Hey, everybody,
it's Teresa from teen Times. What'smy show about? I interview people
in the entertainment industry, producers,directors, actors, and guess what.
My show is on every Saturday morningat ten am on Channel twenty on Optimum

(45:54):
TV. So tune in because it'sfun, interesting And who's the best comedian?
You know? Teresa Barrow? Andby Terresa Barrow. Teresa Barrow,

(46:22):
who's your favor? Teresa Barrow?Right now? Terresa Barrow? All right?
I love you. Hey everybody,welcome back to Tea Tom. I'm
so glad you joining me tonight.I'm with Gail Margaret King and she is
a model. She hosted a podcast, She's done red carpets, print work,

(46:46):
runway and she loves to give backa lot and and and really educate
people and also make them feel comfortablein their own skin, which is so
important. You know, we alllook in the mirror every day and you
know, I think it's so importantto say a positive something positive to yourself

(47:08):
because you and you're like, maybeI should have got to know his dream.
I don't like my arms all gotmy inner legs. I could do
a yellow commercial. You know.There's just certain things that we all have
hang ups about. But you haveto look past that, you know,
you really do. It's it's it'sthe soul, it's the core, you
know, it's it's what makes uson the inside and then it comes out

(47:30):
and shines on the outside. Youknow, I think you could have the
most beautiful person in the world withthe ugliest attitude and it's such a turnoff.
And you know, or if theydon't have something to offer, well,
that's the whole thing too. Whatdo you what do you bring to
the table and to give back?And it's important also a great lesson between

(47:51):
both of us with the cancer andthe brain tumor is you know your body
and if something is off and somethingis wrong, go and get check and
listen to yourself and don't take nofor an answer until you get an answer,
right, right, very very important. All right, So we have
like seven minutes left, and Iwant to know, just who's you a
favorite author? Do you have onemy favorite author? Yeah, I have

(48:15):
Dostoyevsky when I was in college becauseagain the good versus evil, the crime,
the intelligence, Raskolnikov. But I'malso very partial to Shakespeare because I
think we can learn so many lessonsby studying him. I mean, how
could you not each play even thepoetry, right? You know? So

(48:37):
yes, I would have to saythat. Now. I know you mentioned
before that you'd like to write Ido, and you already have the title,
which is what who killed? Whokilled the beauty queen? Who killed
the beauty? Killed the beauty queen? Okay, and this is gonna be
this is something that you want towrite, you head that you're playing around

(48:58):
with. I'm thinking about it,all right. I am almost who dating
about it because she thinks I thinklike a guy. I feel like she
do a book about dating because alot of that friends asked me questions.
Really yeah, and I could seethat as well, Okay, I could
I could do that. It couldbe a handbook. Yeah, absolutely,

(49:19):
I like that idea. All right, so I want to talk to you
about a magazine. Your holding mis going to also put up the pick
for it. There it is.It's called The Cinderella of New York.
Yes, this is the brainchild offamous designer Pamela Quincy, where Tara Reige
has designed Carmen lecture many models.She's won numerous awards and it was her

(49:43):
dream. Although she put me onthe cover, she's the Cinderella of all.
That's the that's the cover, thankyou, thank you, and then
chow the back. Well, yes, what it is beautiful. It is
a contest, yes, and thetop ten winners will not only walk in
her show, oh she will dressus prizes and in addition to that,

(50:07):
the money raised by each person votingfor them, all that money is going
to go to less fortunate little Cinderellasand they're going to get the dresses,
the shoes, the bags and allthat nice. So this was something that
she has excited us about. Rightnow, I'm excited. I am in
the top ten. Yeah. Votingstops at the end of July, you

(50:31):
know it. Vote Gale can nowvote Gale five. I'm in the second
place. That's great, and itdoesn't matter. You can. You can
vote for anyone you want from Tellevery money it's going to go to help.
Yeah, it's so important. Yeah, Pamela's going to design and she's
already given so many outfits to thoseless fortunate because she believes, and I

(50:52):
agree with her, she should allbe Cinderella for at least one day.
And there's so many that we couldhelp, and why not have that dream?
Look at her dream. She becamefamous with her Malapa boutique and her
Columbia outfits. So this is aphenomenal thing. So I'm excited about that.
And you've got a ton of socialmedias. I want everyone to know

(51:12):
about them. You have a it'scalled Lightning Star dot e n T abbreviated
for Entertainment dot com that you couldgo and check out. You have.
It's Margaret King on Facebook and Instagram. It's Gail King t t H Gail

(51:34):
Margaret Gail Margaret King TV dot com. Okay, and then it's Gail Margaret
King on Facebook. And I dotry to answer everybody. Sometimes I don't
answer as fast as I can,but it could be a question about health.
I canswer because I've helped people thatway, or it could be just
something that you want to know,but I do try to. Yeah,

(51:55):
no, that's nice. Really isnice of you that you, you know,
take the time. And I'm justamazed. So many people are just
so wonderful to me on those sites. I mean, you get the occasional
would you go out with me?And you say, sorry, I'm involved.
You're not that hot anyway? Ah, really really old. Oh geez,
you have to have a sense ofyou, you know. Yeah,

(52:20):
I mean, what are you gonnado? But most people nine and nine
percent thank you. You are sokind to me and you have no idea.
You make my day. You writeme things and they're beautiful. I
really say, Well, listen,we have like two and a half minutes
left. Is there anything else thatI did not mention that you would like
to talk about? Oh? IfI can memorize, how about this?

(52:44):
You must never give up no matterwhat this philographic Winston Churchill, Oh,
Winston Churchill my favorite. In eighthgrade, he failed English eighth grade English,
and he was determined to keep goingthat it and he finally passed.
Now many years later, he wentto Oxford at Cambridge and they said,

(53:07):
please give us your speech, right, and he said, of okay,
and he hobbled up on stage withhis king and he looked and he said
never give up. Everybody went andhe looked up again and he said you
must never give up, and hewalked off the stage. That's it,

(53:27):
that's it, and that stage isit? Yeah? Yeah, it doesn't.
Really powerful words, three powerful words. It really is never give up
because everyone has hopes and dreams andaspirations, and you know, we're living
proof never to give up at anyage. Really, I mean, just
it's you know, you don't knowunless you try. That's the bottom line.

(53:51):
If you if you don't try,you failed to try and then fail.
At least you could say I didtry, you know what I mean.
And I know you also have hopeversus hopelessness, which is another one
that's very impactful. Well, youhave the choice, it's up to you,
you know. Yeah, that's that'sthat's aunt of mind. And again
you know October is Breast Cancer WitnessMonth and I know you were involved in

(54:17):
many different organizations with that, anduh it's again, but every day is
every day's a gift, every day'sgift, and every day is away.
Absolutely absolutely your own advocate. Yes, yes, absolutely, And that's what
you were at the young age oftwenty five, which is I thought I
knew it all. Amazing. Yeah, we think we know a lot of

(54:37):
twenty we know nothing at twenty five. We get definitely older and wiser and
put up less crap as you getolder, really because you don't have the
patience for it. Listen, thankyou so much for doing this, my
pleasure coming in and doing this aheadof Blast, and I will take you
up in your offer. I wantto see your closets. You got it,
Okay, listen, Thank you everyonefor watching me, supporting me.

(55:00):
Remember, tell everyone you love youlove them, and I'll see you next
week. Chat everybody.