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My look was always kind of trashy.
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It was a country girl’s idea of glam the backwoods (1) Barbie.
And I’d kinda overdone it, I guess, but I was always comfortable.
You’re a right pretty girl, you don’t need all that."
And I thought, Well, I wish you hadn’t said that.
I hate to not take the advice of someone I love and respect.
I just kept doing that look more and more.
And I said, “Yeah, right.”
They’re going to be comfortable with you even if you might look ridiculous to them.
Because there’s something about you that makes them feel content.
I’m not preaching [that] somebody should look like me.
And I dress for me.
I do what makes me happy.
So I would just say to anybody: “If you’re comfortable wearing no makeup, be that.
If you wanna wear too much, do that.”
I don’t know that there’s a nice thing about aging.
I’m like the Gabor sisters Zsa Zsa and Eva you never knew how old they were.
I’m not going to be like Judge Judy, who I love to death.
She didn’t want to have to work so hard, being at the age she is.
And I respect that and I love that.
But for me, I’ll just do what I’ve always done.
I’ll do what’s best for me, as everybody should.
I never go out with a bare face.
Not even when I go out.
Somebody, pleaseopen my coffin to put some makeup onme.
At night, I leave my makeup on.
And I say, “You should never be telling me what to do.”
I don’t know what’s going to happen in the middle of the night.
I have to be earthquake-ready, I have to be tornado-ready (3).
If I had to hit the streets then…
I probably would just die in the tornado.
I have a few houses scattered here and there.
“Wigsare just so handy.
I would love to do a wig line next.
And I’m going to be doing makeup.
ButI’m doing fragrance first.
What is that?”
It’s a combination of things I love."
The two main ones were Tova’s musk bath oil and Mary Kay Intrigue (4).
I was paying a huge amount of money buying Intrigue.
I’ve got hundreds of bottles even still, that’s how serious I was about the smell.
It took us two years to get this to where it was really right.
I said, “No, I’m not putting something out that don’t smell like me.
I don’t want to have my own perfume and then still wear something else.”
I think it turned out even better than what I was wearing.
It smells like angels.
When I made the donation for the vaccine (5), I just felt led to do that.
If we don’t have our health, we have nothing.
I do more “rejoicing” than I do “working out.”
I do a few little floor exercises now and then, a few little squats.
I’m big on those.
She later found out that her donation helped fund testing of the Moderna vaccine.