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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."

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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.

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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.

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I’m not preaching [that] somebody should look like me.

And I dress for me.

I do what makes me happy.

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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.

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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.