Bethenny brings to light some hard hitting parenting tips and the truth behind the fillers and plastic surgery of some of Hollywood’s elite.
I've seen some rumbling, some press about Jennifer Aniston cover gorgeous, looking amazing. Uh, admittedly jas yoga fifty times a week, the water, the working out, hadn't had a baby, you know, loves the Fountain of Youth and the famous salad and all that. Nicole Ki had been known for a lot of plastic surgery, but took it down. Amazing actress, beautiful woman, great on and everything she's doing, she's extraordinary, really wonderful. UM and j L you know, icon legend, et cetera. So it's funny because I had Paulina Poruskova on my podcast and she said, there's no real representation of women between the ages of j Lo and Betty Betty White, meaning everybody looks like they stop aging at Jl's age. I think she means in like popular culture. I don't think she means in the middle of the country. I think she means that. UM. And I guess someone said to me that when the Golden Girls, the age that they started was j Lo's age. So there are covers of j Lo, Nicole Kimman, and Jennifer Anderson at the same time. And this is fifty three, and this is what fifty something looks like and this is being in your fifties and we all know. So I want to talk about it because people, it provokes people, it sort of triggers them. So here's the thing. They've all had plastic surgery, no problem, no problem. I will have plastic surgery. I have had a lift. They've all been filtered extreme I no problem. I was filtered on my I Heart podcast poster. I saw it. I posted about it like I didn't do it. I didn't filter it, and they didn't either. But there's a level of how filters something can be. I've seen something and said to my publicist and said publicists and said, I look like I have a Bethany mask on. So they've all been totally filtered. The women have you know, extensions and had plastic surgery and everything going on. So where's the line for women. It's not Nicole Kidman's responsibility to make Jane in ce Caucus feel better. It's not her responsibility. Is it her responsibility to admit plastic surgery, filtering, face tuning all the ship because I've seen a lot of this, and you know, someone like when Stefani verily, very heavily face tuned and filtered. I actually don't even know the answer. I want to know where the line is. For me. I just roll with it. I just said, this is what my face looks like. I know it's not that cute, but I'm not speaking to perfection. I'm speaking to Jane from so Caucus and saying, girl, don't feel so freaking bad. Okay, this is what I look like. I've done the plastic surgery tour. I might do something. The least I can do for you is tell you that goddamn truth. Maybe it's not. Maybe they don't owe you anything. Go get plastic surgery, lie about it, do whatever you want. It's no one's responsibility, you know what. That's what I'm saying. It's no one's just sponsibility. Jennifer Lopez did not sign a contract with me saying I'm going to tell you I had plastic surgery. I'm gonna tell you if I've been filtered, I'm gonna say. But maybe saying this is fifty, Maybe that's where the line is. Don't say this is fifty, this is my fifty. Maybe don't participate in articles about that. Maybe that's where the line is. There's got to be some line about these celebrities, alluding to it being natural in any way, to it being about eating salmon and drinking water, to it being about don't drink like you could not drink for the rest of your life. You're not gonna look like the cover of whatever magazine the j lo is are right now. I could promise you that, so you can meditate as much as you want. You're not gonna look like Jennifer Onison on the cover of the magazine because you have not been. You know, you know how hard it is to say. You don't know how hard it is to do that filtering too, Like I tried to do it one day for for a post to be dramatic. It was not that easy because I looked distorted, and you gotta go do it like tiny little bits. So where's the line? So I know where it is and I know the answer hashtag I know at all. If a magazine is portraying perfection in a fifty something you're old that you believe is not accurate, and that makes you feel bad about yourself, and that puts pressure on you, and it makes you look in the mirror and think I look like shop and I don't look like that, even though you intellectually know that that's not what you should be looking like. But emotionally it doesn't matter. You intellectually know you shouldn't have a piece of chocolate. When your hand grabs for the chocolate cake, it's your body. It's your emotions that want it. It's your cravings. It doesn't matter that you intellectually would rather not eat that, or rather not eat the funnel cakes or the fried chicken, even if you're trying to, you know, dipped in ranch. Your body wants that. Your emotions, your hormones want it. You intellectually know that that picture is not representing the truth. It is not in a cool kidment or Jennifer Anison or j Low's responsibility to make you feel better. It is not for them to tell you the truth about what they're doing. They can do whatever the funk they want. It is your responsibility to not buy the product, not the brand that they're selling, if you don't like it, not the magazine that's publishing it. The magazine is the outlet. The outlet is distributing the merchandise. The merchandise is the magazine is. The person is The idea is the dream is the aspiration. It is the media outlet that is, and it is the media outlets write to distribute whatever they want. You have the power. You are the consumer. It is your choice to not consume something, your choice to not buy something, your choice to not unfollow something, your choice to not follow somebody who's filtering themselves within an inch of their lives, and your choice to follow them. But you can't complain about it if you don't like it because you don't believe it, don't fucking buy it, don't consume it, and I have I keep saying it, but it goes gotta keep going deeper and deeper, whether funk. Are you mad at Jennifer Lopez for filtering ourselves? I could filter myself too. I could go get head to tell full body plastic surgery. It's the lying about it you don't like. But even still, it's not your business. I can filter myself. It's my business. You don't have to buy it. You don't have to like me, you don't have to follow me if I do that. If I choose to do plastic surgery and I'm honest with you about it, you get to choose whether you think I've sold out, whether you hate me as a result of it, whether it makes you feel bad about yourself what I'm doing, or if you like that I'm just telling you about. Somebody else can have a big, mega yacht and you know, drink champagne out of their faucet, and I can choose to watch it or talk to them about it if I'm mad at them doing that, they don't have to associate with them. I could choose to watch looks goods on mass and shows. I could choose to buy as many rams bags as I want. If I start to flaunt it makes you feel bad about yourself. You don't have to follow me, which I wouldn't do because I want a good relationship with you. I don't want to do and not even that, I don't want to do that to you. I relate to you. I don't want to make you feel bad about yourself by me. I don't want to be up here and you down there. And that's what a lot of these celebrities and these publications are doing. They're up here, we're down there. But don't don't don't engage in it, don't invest in it, don't buy it. What we don't realize is the power that we have. I was not able to distribute almost three million dollars in worldwide aid to save people's lives because I did it because I am you know, have a following. I was able to do it because each of you have a voice and power and the dollar and come came together and freaking funneled that money through to give it to those people. It was you. You have more power than you think. You have the power to not buy, to not follow, to not like, to block, to do it. It bothers you think if it's rational, and you know, think about it. So when we say, oh, they shouldn't be putting this stuff out, and I've been wrong too, what am I talking about? If the caves are peddling the ship about lips and extensions and the product that we're pushing, it's not their fault and it's not the media's fault. They're selling, they're making money. The drug dealers not gonna stop making money. The magazines are gonna stop making money if you're not buying. They got no drugs to sell. So stop the faucet, stop feeding the beast. Rants on kids being bored, Okay, so kids are gonna be bored. You don't have a nanny, you don't have child's care. It sounds, but oh, we'll do this. Sometimes you don't do an activity, Okay, we did it. We I skated for an hour and a half, or we went sledding for an hour and a half. Now you're home. They don't amnesia. They don't remember you took them yesterday. You took them to an aquarium, you took them to sled They don't remember. There's so many fucking hours in a day, God forbid. They get up early. And because we activate these kids so much, and we do things with them because we wanted to be such great parents. And there are actual statistics that working moms spend less time with their kids than moms in the fifties that were home all day because they smoked a cigarette, put on their picked up the telephone with the coyly cord, had a glass of wine, and let them run out into the yard and with the mittens into the nights, onto the bicycle, out into the streets, onto the pogo stick, Go with God, do whatever you have to do, rob a bank, beat somebody up. I don't give a funk. I'll see you at five o'clock for dinner. Like that's what parenting was like then. Now parenting is used her in, use your inside voice and show and feelings and and we're gonna be there. I'm gonna be with you all day, every day, because I feel guilty as a parent if I'm not with you twenty fours a motherfucking day. So these kids, they don't remember you did anything with them. They don't remember you baked cookies together. They don't remember you bought them holiday pajamas. They don't remember you snuggle. They don't remember your Netflix. They don't remember you bought them a puppy. They don't remember you sled. They don't remember the movies. They don't rememb remember. They don't remember the aquarium or the bouncy gym, or the trampoline, or the zip line, or the mall or the go karts, or the holiday shopping or seeing Santa or the arcade, or doing play dates or organizing the play dates. They don't remember. They don't remember their iPad, They don't remember the trampoline. They don't remember the zip line you put in your own fucking house, or the pool last summer. They don't remember. And they don't care. You have a basement, Do you have any games down there? They don't remember. It doesn't matter candy, they don't remember, bowling, they don't remember Hibachi, Mexican night, Taco Tuesdays. They don't fucking remember. So it's a new goddamn day. And you know what I say to my daughter when it's a new day. Oh, then you took him out to breakfast? We want to Can we go for hot chocolate? Can we go five scream? Be a special memory? Can we go see yeah? Can we go sledding? They don't remember. They don't remember the short term memory loss. So you know, I say sometimes, oh, you gotta work pretending what if you have to work, you're evil. That's what the pandemic did for us. You have to fucking work. It's not a free for all all day. What we're doing an hour of work and then we're doing the three legged race for the afternoon. Like that's what working was. That's what schooling was. Brim would tell her teacher, I have to go give my dogs medicine so she could get out a class. I don't see you bringing your dogs to school this year, Like everything is a scam. It was all a scam. So now we have to work and it doesn't count. I have to do my podcast. I'll pay penance for the rest of my life. So what you have to tell your kids in a very passive, aggressive voices, you have a life that nobody else has. Okay, look around. You will tell your kids about what you see in relief work and who has less. And you'll do that, and you'll be a broken marcord. They're not even listening because you've said it so many damn times. And what you will say is it's okay to be bored. Well I was bored, great, soothe yourself. There are some kids who just sit it home all day. Well, I don't want to sit at want to sit my daughter tries to bribe me or or do you know, well, I don't like sitting in front of the t V. Old because she's not a TV kid. She's not a device kid. Of I literally have an amazing kid. She doesn't, she reads, she doesn't. She just wants to go outside and do crafts and do activities. She has an art room, lucky her. But something like, well, I'm not a person who's going to just sit in front of the TV. All day, well, good, good, soothe yourself, entertain yourself, tell a story to yourself, make yourself something, do a craft, jump outside on the trampoline, go search for reindeer, do bird watching. Be bored. The whole reason for me, this rant, for this rant, The only reason for this rant is be bored. We were kids, We were bored. We were bored a lot. That's why we can be alone. That's why we can soothe ourselves. That's why we don't need to fill every fucking tile with cock of entertainment, like there can't be any missing cracks. That's how we what's how we are. Everything is to be a goddamn entertainment. And then you feel guilty. Remember the end of the summer. Oh, we never do. We never went week board and we never did this year. You have some sort of bucket list. I'm the guiltiest of all because I love the activities more than the kids. We haven't gone to Gingerbread University, which I've graduated from. Many times I've gone back to school like Rodney Dangerfield to Gingerbread University. Oh, it's it's for me. A lot of it's for me too, because we get to feel better about ourselves. Don't feel bad about working, don't feel bad about telling your kids to go out in the backyard and make a snowman. Just SINIGHTI yellow snow and be bored. It's okay to be bored. That's how we learned to be alone.