BILFPOD - Injecting Confidence, Inside & Out: The Business of Beauty with Jennifer DiLandro

Episode Date: July 17, 2025

New Episode — BILFPod x Jennifer Anne  DiLandroShe’s not just in aesthetics — she’s redefining it.From Director of Nursing to nationally ranked celebrity injector, Jennifer Anne DiLandro has carved out a lane all her own. As the founder of Dolce Aesthetics NY, she’s built a powerhouse brand known for high-level results and unmatched client care. With a Doctorate in Nursing Practice and an EXPERT LEVEL V certification (the highest in the industry), Jennifer leads with both clinical precision and magnetic authenticity.In this no-filter convo, Jennifer sits down with Mara to unpack how she turned her nursing background into a beauty empire—balancing her injector clinics, her bold and unfiltered podcast Cats & Pudding, and a loyal 800K+ Instagram community.Inside the episode:• What it really takes to stand out in a saturated industry• The power of pairing clinical credibility with social savvy• Why credentials still count — and what to do with them• Turning authenticity into authority in the beauty spaceNo fluff. No filters. Just a masterclass in owning your niche from a woman who built hers with purpose, personality, and next-level professionalism.🎧 GET CONNECTED:Follow Jennifer (personal): @jenniferdilandroFollow her brand: @dolceaestheticsnyFollow Mara: @maradorneExplore more: www.maradorne.com#BILFPod #JenniferDiLandro #BossIdLikeToFollow #DolceAestheticsNYC #CelebrityInjector #NurseInjector #WomenInAesthetics #BeautyBoss #CatsAndPudding #BILFCommunity #MaraDorne #WomenWhoLead #AestheticIndustry #PodcastDrop #RealTalkOnly #DNPBoss #BeautyBusiness #BILFSeries

Legitimately, I had nothing. I thought I was like, the better thing that I could do for my kids was just kill myself because they could get my insurance policy. That's why I decided. I said, you know what? I'm going to try to do this. I'm going to start this business. I got to do something that's going to pick me up, and I got to do something that I think

that will make me feel better about myself because it was a dark time. It was a really dark time. Women do so much and people don't realize how much we rise above. We have to be, like you said, I have to be everything. I have to be mom, dad, provider, and start this business. And it was not easy. It was not. Welcome back to the BILF pod.

We're Authenticity trumps authority. Today's guest is actually one of my favorite things to do. That sounds really bad. But her name is Jennifer Ann DiLeandro. She is a famous injector, but she's the founder and CEO of Dolce Aesthetics in New York. She has several locations. And I'm just excited because I love it. If you can nip it, tuck it, pluck it, fuck it, I'll do it.

All right. I love that. So welcome to the show. Thank you for having me. Yeah. All right. I love it. Thank you for having.

I mean, let's just get down to business. I got to get comfortable for this because I'm waiting for some good questions. Yeah, let's go. Oh, I got some good at me. So I am a huge fan. I always laugh. Like everybody, I tell everybody that I mean, I'm very, very authentic about injectables and that I use them.

I always say everything on my body is fake, everything, the hair, the tan, It's all fake, but, you know, one of the biggest feedback that I get from critics is that it's not authentic when you're using injectables. So I want to start there. How do you feel about that? It's injectable if you buy it, right? I basically, if I bought it, I own it. It's mine, so it's, it is authentic, right? Yeah, it is.

Definitely authentic. And you're doing it to your own body? And what's the difference of coloring your hair or, let's say, doing your teeth? What's the difference if you want to, you know, make your face look a little bit more juzged? I like to say, I call it a jure. But is that a good word? Let me try to say it. A jeuge.

A jeuge. Yes, I love the joj. It's a great word. It's a good word. I mean, listen, there are people that are going to be totally against it. I get that. And there's people on the other spectrum who totally love it or totally off the wall when it comes to. I mean, believe me, I get patients where I have to say, listen, I don't want to see you for six months.

You can't come back. You can't come back because you're getting too much. You look good. You don't need any more. Because that's another problem is that page. people and patients. They want to, I have patients who come in with their phone. I want to look like her.

I go, she doesn't even look like her. Yeah, this is a filter. It's a filter. And it's, it's, it does become where it does look. And it can be fake looking, but you don't want it to be that way. Yeah, you want it to be natural. And you started as a nurse, right? A nurse practitioner.

And then when, so what made you switch over into injectables? I mean, I just always loved the aesthetics. When I worked as a labor and delivery nurse, and that, like, runs hand in hand with, you know, plastic surgery and women, women's health runs hand in hand with that. And I was just, you know, I was friends with a plastic surgeon. He was like, hey, I'm going to this training class with this company called Allergan, which is the big company that makes Botox, a trillion-dollar company. For Botox injections, for cosmetic. She's like, do you want to come with me?

I was like, yeah, I want to come with you. So I went. I loved it. This was 2001. and that was it. I just, for some reason, it just, I was like, it was like me and was like riding a bicycle. It was just like I was supposed to do it. It was love at first light.

Oh, my God, love it first night. It was a match made in heaven. It was total match made in heaven. I can definitely relate because I love Botox. Love it. Filler. Love it. I'm not even afraid or ashamed.

I don't care. I love it too. Right? So now you are really the injector, the injector of the stars. So can we talk about that? I know you're probably not going to put anybody out. But let's talk about, so when the stars come into, they like go, incognito and they're like, don't say you ever saw me or how does that go?

I mean, I have people who obviously I post on my page that I collaborate with that I could say that I, you know, injected them, but there are people that don't, there are people, actors, because I do a lot of actors too, not just reality stars. So they come in there, they don't want, they don't really want people to know that they're doing anything, you know, which I understand. Yeah, no, I get it. Just, I get it. I get it. I totally get it. I don't agree, but I get it. Like, just why not own it? Who cares? Yeah. Some people. just don't. They get a little funny. I think in certain worlds and genres, everybody wants to pretend

that they look so young without anything. It's like, dude, you didn't look that good 10 years ago. Now you're telling me you're going to look good now. I'm saying. Yeah. You look more transparent if you say the truth. So it's like they, for some reason, it's this thing that they want to look good without having to do. Oh, yeah, right. Juice every day. That's when my skin looks like this. No, your skin does not look like that. Yeah, just stop. Because you juice every day. Stop. Stop. They really say that. I know, just stop. I cannot. So how many locations?

Because you have quite a few locations. How many locations do you have? I have four. Four locations? That's incredible. Ready to open five. So you really are a bilf. You're a bilf, not me.

You're the bilf of injections. Thank you. Oh, I love that. The Botox lady I'd like to follow. Oh, right? The Botox lady I'd like to follow. That could be, yeah, you are the bilf of Botoc. I love that.

You are. I was going to be my new catchphrase. I think, you can steal it. I love it. I absolutely love it. And now, but I, you know what's so funny is that you are actually super funny. Your personality is so dynamic. So when the clients come into you, are you some of the, because I've been,

I've been to lots of meds spots, how do you tell somebody like, mm-mm, like enough? Enough is enough. What, like they've done enough? I'm just honest. I say, stop it. You look like Joan Rivers. You got to stop. You can't do it.

I'm dead. No, you want to look like you went through a wind tunnel now. I know, I'm totally honest. And that's what, that's when my patients love me because I say the truth. That's it. I can't with the Joan Rivers. Stop. No, you're going to look like plastic man.

You need to stop. I cannot. Because then you see these people and their face is so frozen. But I like to be frozen, but not to the point where you can't even just move. I don't like that. No, I like to be a little overdone, but not too overdone. Like, I like my lips a little bit extra, but not too extra. But then there's two extra where you look like an alien.

You know what I mean? That's what starts. So it looks like a cat lady or a cat person. I can't. And it's also my, it's a. also my you know reputation so I don't want to I don't want them to walk out and say hey yeah Jen Dolce just did this to my face and they look like they look like they look like they're a cat you know I don't want that either or they look crazy so I do I do tell

them I'm very honest I'm brutally honest and I tell patients the truth what they need that's important now what they need to hear they need to I tell them what they what they have to do is there specialty are you like a lip lady are you like like a cheek person like what is your favorite I'm I mean I love doing lips I mean I've been I guess that was like, you know, during like the Kylie Jenner craze that was like, I was love your lips at Dolce and the whole thing. But I mean, I think I love to do everything. I love to do noses. I love to contour noses.

That's just, you know, because it's, it's a specialty to it. You know, there's a, there's an artistry to it. And that's where a lot of people don't understand. I mean, all these, there's a, everybody's an explosion now with everybody trying to do this. And it's like, you can't just do it. It's not like, I'm going to go to nursery school. Now I'm just going to go out and I'm going to start injecting open a practice. It's like, no, there's, okay, and I always use this analogy.

Here's George Clooney. He's going to go out and he's going to learn how to sing for a movie and he'll be able to carry a tune. He'll take singing lessons. And then there's Mariah Carey. She's the eight octave. She was born with it. That's it. I'm Mariah Carey in the Botox world.

That's it. That's who I am. I'm Mariah Carey. I'm not George Clooney. And I'm not, yeah. And it's like, and it becomes now like a Taco Bell for everybody. When you have too many locations. They're everywhere.

It's just, it's becoming too over flooded, and there is going to probably be, especially in New York, I know a lot of doctors are coming together and MPs, and they're going to say there has to be a cap where you have to have at least five years experience in a hospital or in a clinical setting to be able to do this legally because, you know, it is dangerous. First of all, people don't realize how dangerous it can be. It looks easy. I make it look easy when I'm doing it. it's not I mean you have a whole you know you have nerves you have vessels there

are things that could go wrong very wrong yeah hit a blood vessel right done you hit a well an occlusion forget it you could somebody could go blind from from from a wrong hit vessel so it's you know it's it's dangerous so but it it everybody seems it's so easy but it's not no it's not easy and what about these you know I used to see I don't know if it stills because I haven't seen Groupon in a while oh what about these groups I'm dead I can't. The Groupon.

I'm just, what about somebody? Not that I would, no, maybe I did when I was, listen, I was broke. Because, you know, my hairstylist said, he always says to me, goes, I go, I look so much better now. He said, honey, because you have money. And you can't afford. So I always laugh. But when I didn't have money, I had to use a Groupon special. So what do you say, give the, okay, give the advice.

Go ahead, go. Okay. I'm one of the top injectors in the city in Brooklyn, especially Brooklyn. Queens, that's my, I'm top, I'm number one. For what they're charging for Botox on Groupon, I couldn't afford to do that because I wouldn't make any money. I would be giving it away. Yeah.

So that just shows me that they're using a fake product. It's not really Botox that they're using. They're watering it down or be, they're getting it from Russia or China. And I, that's the truth. I mean, there's no, it is because you, there's no way. There's no way. It's so crazy. So if somebody's looking to the...

And again, that's cheapening it down again. Taco Bell. Like, you know. I know. Mariah Carey. I got George Clooney to talk about... But what about... So if you're trying to find an injector,

you're trying to look for a med spa that is credible or somebody... How would one go about doing that? Finding, like the perfect person to go to. Well, I mean... A reputable. Not perfect, reputable. You know, like I said before, you know, there is a lot of injector. You have to be careful.

And a lot of people don't... understand. They don't know what they're looking for because especially if they've never done it before, they don't know what to expect. They don't know what they're looking for. But you want to probably go to somebody who's been doing it for a long time, see how long they've been in business, see how long, you know, what their credentials are before you just go jump to somebody that, hey, this place just opened up around the block for me and it looks really beautiful, but the person's been only been injected for six months. You know, you've got to be careful of that. So I would go to somebody who's been in business for a while, obviously, and has a reputation that they know

what they're doing. And there isn't a lot of people that are on that elite level. I'm a trainer too, so I could tell you that. There's maybe a handful of people who are on that elite level. I mean, not everybody who plays soccer could be an Olympian. That's just it. It just can't. Not everybody's Massey.

Not everybody's... No. Or Paley, that shows how old I am. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. But so what age, so I've been doing Botox probably since I'm 25 years old. So quite a long time I've been doing it. What age would you recommend somebody goes and starts, is it?

Is it true what they say is that you, it's like preventative? I mean, I wouldn't, I would say 25 to 27 is probably the age. That's the age that I would start, I usually would stop patients. You know, I don't like when, not that I don't like it, but, you know, patients come in there like 20. Like, can I have Botox? I'm like, you don't even deserve Botox. Like, you don't have a wrinkle on your face that deserves Botox. Come back when you get married, have some kids, do something that deserves Botox.

But, no, I just think that maybe like 25, 27 is a good, you know, a good age to start it. Like you said, prevention. But you all going into your 30s, so that is a good time to start. I feel like it's a good starting point. It just kind of gets you used to what, you know, what it is. And then it kind of gets you in the routine. How often should you be going? Three months.

Yeah. Three, four months. It starts to work and stops, you know, repeat and stops working. Yeah, because I find, you know, sometimes with Botox, like you'll all go a good three-month round, but then sometimes it's two months. So why does that happen sometimes? Do you work out a lot? Yeah.

Okay. That's what. Metabolizes. Yeah. If you work out a lot, if you're stressed, I mean, the time of year has a lot to do with it. In the summertime, obviously, if we're sweating more, we're doing a lot more activities outside, that can overturn, you know, overturn it quicker to metabolize.

it quicker. So there's all those, you know, key factors that can, you know, take, that does take, you know, it does cause the, the effect to diminish. Now, there's different types of Botox, right? There's different, there's different, isn't there like, different brands? Well, Botox is a brand, so that's where people could. Yes. There's different name brands. Neurotoxins, yes. Thank you. So, and I'm not trying to say that's a correct, you. I know, you're the Mariah Carey. I'm saying it because Botox is a brand name. Because when people come in, well, what kind of Botox do you use? I go, I use Botox. Right. Botox is a brand name. And yes, there's four or five other brands that

that's out there. There's Javot, which is garbage. Disport. Ziamin and Dachsify. So I do offer other other neurotoxins too because, yes, the companies do give it to you for a better price because they're in competition with both. I love how honest you are about that. No, I'm very honest. And I say I offer it to patients because some patients, don't want to spend $15 a new. Disport, no. I use disport. I used disport, it's just too diluted.

That's what I don't like about it. Yeah, it turned yellow. I literally used it and turned yellow. Never again. I like Botox. Love Botox is the mothership, man. The mothership. You are the OG.

You're the OG. Thank you. I want you to talk a little bit about that, though. You've really started doing injectables way before, like, since the beginning of time. So how did that, or since, I mean, since the beginning of of the time when it started. So how did that even like, here you are, you decide you're going to do this. Not many people are doing it.

So how did the, like, where did this whole trend come from? I mean, I started doing it. I just took a chance and said this is, you know, something I want to do. I was working. I was working as a nurse administrator making big, big salary. I was running two surgical suites, two big ones in Brooklyn. water in Manhattan. And I just said, you know what?

I can't do this anymore. I said, I got to do something that I love. And I took, I had like 10 week vacations owed to me because I didn't take a vacation for like eight years. And I'm like, you know what? I'm taking a vacation. I set up shop and I said, let me just try it. And what's the worst that can happen?

I can always go and get another job. And it just, it flourished. It just worked. Took off. But I busted my ass. Yeah. I busted my ass. And I still bust my ass.

That comes to the business side of it because obviously if you have four, first of all, it's expensive to run. But if you have four different med spas, that says a lot about who you are and what you're doing. So where are you going with this? Are you trying to be like international? Are you trying to go on the West Coast? You're trying to go down on the Florida. Like, what are we doing here? Because you have a lot going on.

I'd like to go to Florida. I like to open in Florida. I do maybe want to at some point maybe open in Vegas, I think. But that's, I think that's it. I don't think I want to open up too many. I want to kind of keep it boutique. And, but not too, like I said, I don't want to be a Taco Bell. Like, that's, you know, I don't want to be at all old, Dolce's everyone.

I want to keep it tight. And I like to, I want to have maybe make two or three more locations. And then that's it. Yeah. Call it a day. Because there's other things I like to do too. Oh, like what? So, you know, I mean, now I'm getting into more production and I'm taking acting lessons.

Well, you do have your own podcast. So let's talk about that. So now not only the OG of inject, like the OG of this, okay? Now on top of that, you also run your own podcast. Yes. Well, that started... How did that come about? You know...

From injectables to podcasts. I mean, you know, it just... I think... It just like, somebody was like, do you want to do a podcast, Jen? You love to talk about what you do. You love to talk to people. You're hilarious on IG. Why don't you just go and start a podcast?

I'm like, do I really want to start a podcast? I said, do I really... But you know what? I do like to talk. I do like... to talk to people. So I said, let's do it. Let's try it. And yeah. So what's it about? What do you talk about on there? We talk about everything. Anything from cats to pudding. That's the name of the podcast. That's hysteria. Where did you come up with this? Oh my God. So I'm sitting on my sofa one night and I have,

that's the Italian to me, the sofa sitting on my, my cat's sitting on me, my fiance, I don't know what he is anymore. My fiancee, my significant other, whatever he is. He's making me, he's making me pudding and I eat hot pudding out of a pot. And I'm sitting there on. Like how they're used to make pudding. I remember putting on a pot. Yeah, he's making this to me. He brings it over to me. I'm sitting there with a towel eating pot pudding out of the pot.

I would have, with a big wooded Italian spoon like this. And my cats laying on me and I'm going, Jesus, this is what my life has become cats and pudding. So I'm going, that's a great name for a podcast because it's everything from cats to pudding, you know. I love that. So yeah, that's where the name came from.

And you just talk about whatever. Whatever. Who are your cat? Like, what's your favorite guess? Um, I do a lot. I have reality stars, people in politics, just interesting people, women in business,

you know, actors, artists. Yeah, they just, you know, whoever, I just, I think those looks interesting. I'm going to invite them to me on the show. And how long are you been doing? I'm going to be on my show next. I'm going to come. I'll be the bilf, the OG of the bilf.

You are the bilf. I don't know if I'm belfin it. You are bilfinite. I'm just bilfing it right now. You are bilfinite. How many episodes have you done? I think 64 already. Yeah.

So you are, you're like in there. You're like the bulf of podcasting now. I'm trying to break it through. I mean, it's hard. I mean, it's hard. You know, it's hard. Yeah. I think anything in life that you want is hard.

Yeah. And anything worth having is hard. And the podcast, I think it's a great platform, though. I think the thing about podcasting is that you, I think you're right. You get to meet very interesting people, which I've been so fortunate. and I've met the most interesting and I love to talk to people and I love people. So you meet and it's a great way to advertise for your business. But more importantly, like it's a great platform to just talk shit.

It's just to talk shit about whatever you want. I do like that part of it. I do like to, we call it yenting. Do you know yenta? I'm from New York. Listen, I just want to make sure. It's the same thing. But I love to yenta.

I love it too. Just yenta about bullshit all day long. Like literally we get, I think we. could just sit here and just yenta i could sit and talk to you for the rest of the week i wouldn't have without taking it without taking a breath right not taking a breath same thing me too i know i can i don't shut up some even my kids are like do you ever shut up mom stop talking now do you have children i have three you have three i have three oh you do i have three girls i have bless your heart oh man i have a girl i have one girl thank god knew she's the oldest she's the oldest

god knew better if they would have given me three girls it would god would have been a sad place for us all. No, I have a 17-year-old. We're actually here going to look at colleges for her. That's your oldest. Yeah, that's my oldest. I have a 14-year-old son, and then I have who I call the baby. I have a baby. That is a baby. Yeah, he's the baby. My baby's 19. Going to be 20. That's the baby. And all girls do, oh, they must love what you do, though. Are you like the cool mom? No, you know, you would think so? I'm not, not at all. They're like, mom, please stop. Enough, right? Yeah, I like, I'll like dance. I start, like, like, dancing, and they're like, oh, come Yeah, this is my daughter.

Embarrassed. Yeah, they get embarrassed. I mean, they are. You would think that, but no, they get embarrassed of me. And they all live locally, or? Two live with me still. Well, they all technically live with me because one lives in one of the, an apartment that I own, so she lives there.

So technically she still lives with me. But yeah, they're still close. They have to be proud of you, though. I mean, you're showing them. No, they are. They are. You're showing them, though. You have these med spots.

I mean, you're there. You're a boss. And now you have this podcast. Have you had them on? No, no. You know what? They're not like me. They're not like, they're not, they don't like the public eye as much.

They're more, they're more like, you know, they're more quiet like that way. But my one daughter, she runs my business. So she works for me. I'm one of the other. The other one is a nurse. I'm going to, a nurse manager. She actually runs Jacoby Hospital, ICU unit. She's only 25.

Wow. Yeah. And now she's going back to school to be a nurse anesthetist. So, which is big money. Yeah. I think I'm going to go back to school to do that now. Really? Oh, my God.

No, it's a great career. It's a great career. I'm sure. Well, the nice thing about your degree, too, is that you can literally do anything. Yeah. So if, having forbid, this didn't work out, what would you do if, like, let's just say aesthetics, it just wasn't it anymore? I mean, you could do any, you really could do anything. Yeah, I could.

And I've done a lot of, I've done everything. Nursing, you could go so many different avenues. You know, it's really, it's really good. I'm a DMP, so I have my doctor in a nursing. I mean, I could do administration, I could do research, I could do, you know, I could do so many different things. I could be a professor. I love that would be great.

Yeah, you could be your next, I think you should do it like on the side of NYU, NYU if you're hiring. Is that the next professor? I mean. That would, yeah, you could do that, the professor of Botox. It's, it's hard to be to do that. I think that's, it's rough. Yeah.

I do, I do training classes too, but it, again, it takes a lot of time and it's hard. You know, anything you do, I like to do. You probably are the same way I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it all the way. 100%. And it's got to succeed or else. I'm uninterested. Right.

I lose complete interest and I don't want to do it anymore. So what do you do? I mean, you're working. You have a lot going on. So what do you do in your off time? No, I mean, I stay with my kids. What's off time? There is no off time.

I work seven days a week. Yeah. And if I don't go, or I'm doing events or I'm doing my podcasts. Or I'm dealing with, you know, I have three girls. One's getting married, so I'm dealing with that. So now you're doing the whole wedding thing. Yeah, doing the whole wedding thing. No, yeah.

That's, it's a lot. Is there anything you don't do? I don't sleep. That's what I would do. Me either. I don't sleep either. I go days of it. This is like a, I thought it's like a hormonal problem.

But I don't sleep. It's because your brain doesn't shut off. No. At nighttime, like, what's the next thing? Never shuts off. I mean, I was on the phone with my friend last night. She actually does another great podcast, growing up Italian podcast. I don't know if you've heard of it.

I'm shouting you guys out. And she hears me. She's talking to me. And I'm like, talking to her. like this, she's like, you're texting somebody else, arm with you. What are you doing right now? What are you answering? I go, I'm going to stop. I'm answering my emails right now. You got to stop. It never stop. But that's the life of the bill. That's really what it comes down to

is that we're just constantly going. And it's not, because I feel like if I'm not doing something, if you're stagnant, then what are you doing in life? Nothing. I'm like a shock. If I stop moving, I'm going to die. That's basically it. I can't. I just, some people, some of my girlfriends are going into retirement because they did really, really well. and I just could not imagine doing nothing. I would be a menace if I didn't do anything. I would be a total menace to myself, my children, everybody around me if I just stopped.

When I stay home from work for five days, like if I could just take a mini vacation, I become like I feel like I'm doing something wrong when I'm not doing anything. Yes, you feel almost guilty. Like, there's no room. Did I just play hooky? Like, what did I do wrong?

Like, I just feel like awkward that I'm not doing anything. Yeah, because it's a weird feeling when you're stagnant. Yeah. That's the life of a bill. That's what it is. We just have to keep going. So I just want to switch gears for one moment and take it like a little bit more,

you know, more like more interpersonal. And being a woman, especially like being someone that I can, you were relatable. Now, there's been many times in my career where I've kind of had this self-doubt, whether, you know, family has kind of discouraged me or just listening to the naysayers. Has there been times where, because you're creating this amazing empire, Has there been self-doubt as along the way? I mean, I can't imagine it's all been, you know, sunshines and rainbow. No, it has not been sunshines and rainbows, that's for sure.

I, when I was starting my business, I basically started it because my husband was incarcerated. He was in jail. I threw my marriage, he was in jail for 10 years. And I was at the point where I was losing my house. I was losing everything at this point. I was like on the balls of my ass. Like, legitimately I had nothing. I thought I was like, the.

better thing that I could do for my kids was just kill myself because they could get my insurance policy. So it was either I'm going to pick myself up and dust myself off and do something or I'm just going to lay down and die. And that's why I decided. I said, you know what? I'm going to try to do this. I'm going to start this business. It's going to, it's going to, I got to do something that's going to pick me up and I got to do something that I think that will, you know, make me feel better about myself because it was, it was a dark time. It was a really dark time. I went to. I went through hell. I need to write a book.

I need to write a book of what I went through. You definitely just gave me chills saying that because I feel like for women especially, there's either, it's either fight or flight. Yeah. And that's really what we're left with. And women, what people don't realize is we have the burden of being a mom, right?

A wife. And now you have to be the sole provider. Yep. That's exactly what happened. It's such a hard burden that we face. And now here you are, like for me, you know, I'm divorced. There was a time in my life where my back was pushed up

against the wall. My ex-husband didn't have any money, so all the burden fell on me. And, you know, people see the glam now. Yeah, it looks great. But they have no idea what it took to get there in those moments of desperation where you're sitting there on the bathroom floor, really questioning, should I be here, what am I doing, and how am I going to get where I need to go and help my kids do? That's exactly what happened to me. I was sitting in my kitchen table in the middle of the night.

I go, what am I going to do? How am I going to get through this? What am I going to do? I have three young kids. I have, you know, I'm almost losing my house. I'm going to be homeless if I don't do something, you know, and I just couldn't make ends meet just being a staff nurse. I just couldn't do it, you know.

And I also didn't want to lose my lifestyle either. I go, why do I deserve to lose my lifestyle because of, you know, of my situation? And, you know, it's so hot. Women do so much and people don't realize how much we rise above. We have to be, like you said, I have to be everything. We have to be, I have to be mom, dad, provider. I had to be, you know, chauffeur, everything for my children

that I had two plus because they were little. And now start a business and now be boss bitch and start this business. And it was not easy. It was not. But it is crazy how us women, we are able, I feel like women, we just have this like rubber band effect. We're able to bounce back. Like, yeah, we're going to have those because I'm sure those moments of, you know, self, when you're self-pitying, I'm sure those moments were there, but they don't last too long. You can't let them last. This is like literally a moment of despair for five minutes. You get five minutes and time out, and then you've got to look yourself in the mirror

and be like, bitch, you better get it together. Yeah, you bet you better get your ass up and do something. I mean, and I went back to school to become a nurse practitioner during that time. I said, I had to do it because I wanted to be my own boss. I didn't want to have to work under a doctor. I wanted to be or somebody else. I said, I want to be able to have my own contracts with the company so I could get my own products. And I did all that.

And I said, I cannot have anybody. going to have anybody that I have to depend on and that's what that's what I that's what I went through it was it was it was rough but it made me who I am and much and well worth it because anything you have today you got it yes you did it and nobody can take that away from you yep and so true I love that so we got to do as we wind down I do have some questions for you okay so when it comes to aesthetics I do have because I like this rapid fire thing so I have to ask you okay so for the lips how do you like okay when it comes to the filler

how much is too much It depends on your facial structure. It depends on, you know, the aesthetic that you're looking for. So I think like a little, a little, like what I have. Or what you, like, I think is that's like getting to wear like, okay, this is enough. You know, that's it. I love that. Yeah, that's enough.

Like, you know, you do a couple syringe and you kind of have to build on it, which is not like, it's not like, people don't understand to patients. They come in. They're like, they think you're going to do one syringe and your lips are going to wind up this big after you do it. It is a process. So it's good because you could gradually get to where you want to go. Okay, so real eyelashes, real eyelashes or the do-it-yourself eyelashes? I don't. Like the, you know what I mean?

Like the, not the do, I should say the ones that you go and get out all the time that you keep up with or like the ones that you can stick and peel. I love the magnetic ones. See, I like it. I like, yeah, the ones, I like to have the, because I don't like when you're falling out. I'm not into it. And they really ruin your lashes. Yeah. They do.

By chunk, by chunk it was falling out. And I don't care what anybody says. It's like putting it. extensions in your hair. Agreed. It ruins them. I mean, I think they look beautiful. I don't, I don't discourage anybody.

I'm not discourage anybody to do it. It's a high upkeep, too. Yeah, it's very high upkeep. I think it's wound down a lot. I think it's not as everybody, not everybody's doing it as much anymore. Yeah, I don't love it. Because it's expensive too.

And you have to keep filling them. All the time. Every two weeks. Two weeks. It's a lot of money to do every two weeks. Yeah. Do you like Juvederm or Voluma? I, well, it depends.

Both Juviderms. So Juvenileum Ultra Plus is, okay. So there's six different types of Juvengeron. So there's Ultra Plus, Ultra, SkinV, Valore, Vola, and Voluma, and Volux. Now there's Volux too. So all of them are for different levels of the skin. So Voluma, of course, I love for contouring. Juvenorm Ultra Plus, we use in the lips.

So they're all for different levels of the skin. So it depends on what part of the body that you're using, part of the face that you're using it on. I don't like, I don't really like the other products. Like I use Radies, but I don't love rest. I'm sorry, Gladerma, I don't really love their wrestling. I really love their. I don't like wrestling. I don't like it.

I like Voluma. I mean, the packaging is even more beautiful for the Allegan products. You could just see that it's just a better product. So much nicer. Yeah. What about threading? Threading. I hate threading too.

Threading is garbage. Don't ever do threading. I agree. My face fell immediately, so I would say filler. Filler. Yeah, filler. Not 100%. And you know you can't get a facelift if you give threading.

Plastic surgeons won't touch your face because the scar tissue. I only did it once. I did the threading and then I saw like it looked good for like the day and then it didn't look good anymore. I mean, they're putting fishing reel in your face. I mean, I don't know how they could tell somebody, yeah, it's going to promote collagen. Yeah, the only collagen is going to promote a scar tissue. That's it.

That's what it leaves the scar tissue. That's what it looks like. It is. It's like a suit. It's a suture. It's like a small thin suture that you would suture up your C-C section, scar with and they stick it in your face with a hook. I never understood it.

First of all, the premise of it doesn't even make sense how it would even work. I did it. And then, bloop, it fell. It's garbage. It literally fell. Don't use it. It was all waste your money. Like Pinocchio, like I was up and then bloop down.

Exactly. That's what happens. You're like a married head. That's what happened to me. I'm telling. Facelift or what do you think? Facelift at 45 or facelift when you need it? Facelift when you need it.

Yeah. Yeah. I don't think anybody needs to get a facelift. I love it. I did a necklift, but I think it's when it's appropriate. I don't think people should just go out and just get surgery. I don't think it's necessary with everything that we have today. I agree.

I did the liquid instead of the BBL because you can now fix your butt. Oh, yeah, we do that too. You can fix the saggy booty. Yep, I love it. I love sculpture in the butt. Love it. I'm a big fan. Lots of sculpture in the booty.

I love it. It's just sculpting. And I had a BBL too. And that doesn't last forever either. So when you do surgery, you have to have upkeep. So it's not like it's something that's forever. It's not as an invasive either. No.

So like going under anesthesia is like not what I want to do. No. You're putting your life at risk. People don't realize how much you put your life at risk when you go. Not even the surgery itself besides that infection and golf a bit, something happens. But it's just coming out of being, you know, your respiratory rate's depressed, your heart rate's depressed. You got to make sure you have a really good anesthesiologist. because things can go wrong very quickly.

I love how real you are. I absolutely love. I don't think I've ever met anybody. I love my, oh, she's going to be so mad. I said she's always real, but you are so over the top real. But it's important. I mean, you really are. When you're doing something with your face, your body,

it's so important to go to somebody. So if somebody wants to find you and go to you, where would they find you? So you could find me on Instagram, on TikTok, on Facebook at Dolce, Estetics, NY. You can find me anywhere. I usually come up first when somebody hits Dolce. And obviously, you can watch my podcast, Cats and Pudding on YouTube, Apple and Spotify. And I'm going to be on two episodes of Below Deck in May.

So you've got to see May. I've been on a few reality shows, too. Oh, yeah. I'm in the process actually. I'm in the process of actually that I don't want to give it away because I can't. That we're going to probably going to go to network probably by September. us so you'll probably see me. Hopefully you'll see me.

I mean, seriously, congrats on all your success. It is obviously very well deserved. Thank you. You are a true BILF. You really are. Thank you. A bill's with the personality. Thank you.

And just so, I mean, your soul, your energy, everything, you really are amazing. Thank you. You're wonderful. I feel like I've known you for years. We're going to be new best friends. I know. We're going to be BFFs now. We are 100%.

Bill Furns. We're Bill Festies. We're Billf besties. We're Billf besties. I love it. I cannot wait to come do your show. Thank you so much for your time today. Thank you so much for having me. I hope that you guys enjoyed. I mean, there you have it. You can be a bad build that does injectables, that literally runs her own empire over here, creating her whole, her own legacy. I mean, Jennifer, you are a true, true, true inspiration to all women out there.

And thank you so much for being here today. Thank you for having me. Thank you.