LadyGang - Nastia Liukin

Episode Date: October 2, 2017

World Champion gymnast Nastia Liukin joins the Ladies in the studio to talk about journey chasing the American Dream alongside her parents and her post-Olympics life as a fashion/fitness blogger, plus answers some of the burning questions the Ladies have about the crazy world of Olympians (i.e. what happens in the Olympic Village). See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hey guys, it's your lady gang, Jack Vanek, Kelty Knight, and Becca Tobin. Thank you so much for subscribing on iTunes, and thanks for supporting the great sponsors who make it possible for us to have this much fun with you every single week for free. The three of us just wanted to take a quick second before this week's episode gets going and acknowledge everything that's going on in the world, and most recently in Las Vegas. Our hearts are very heavy, and I'm sure so are all of yours, but we wanted to send you guys just a message saying that we're thinking of all of you and we love and support you we appreciate all of you um we talk about some crazy stuff for an hour that really isn't in the grand scheme of

things important although entertaining so we thought it was important to to do this and just send you guys some extra love well what is this welcome to the lady gang that's amazing Say that again. The Lady Gang. Things are about to change around here. Each week, we catch up with Hollywood's hottest girl posse, Kelty Knight, Becca Tobin, and Jack Vanek. Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to The Lady Gang. I'm Becca Tobin, actress, blogger, podcaster.

Across from me, Kelty Knight. Hey. Entertainment tonight. Oh, no. We're not bringing that back. The voices are coming back. It's not coming back. Okay.

To my right is Jack Vanek of Jack Vanek Clothing. She's kind of the boss. Obviously, it's named after her. What's up? The question for the day is, what food are you the most embarrassed to eat in public? Ooh. Yeah. Like, if you were on a first date, and, like, this is the last thing you would order.

I would not. And you love it. Like, a wing on a bone. Oh. That's not bad. You can eat it really daintily. Not really. I, like, hate, well, I didn't eat meat for, like, eight years, so I don't really know

how to eat like an actual chicken wing yeah and then there's so many like icky parts to it that like i don't want to eat and then i end up only eating like the smallest little piece of meat from it and i get embarrassed for me i'm like a closet sugar addict so like it would be ordering like the seven desserts that i do like get when i'm in hotel rooms by myself i'm like i'll have the apple pie and the cheesecake and like have a bite of each you know very gluttonous a bite of each or like the whole thing yeah okay got it okay um mine would be ramen oh there's nothing shameful about ramen it's hard to like get like the actual act of it looking and you're like and there's some on your chin and then you see the people that like do the perfect little bite on

the spoon yeah not me yeah no not me either okay well i like slurp it up and now it's time for good week yes it is bad week oh no i want to start i gotta start do it get my tramp stamp removed everyone it's my bad week so 18 year old kelty got a chinese symbol tramp stamp oh my god what does it say means women hold up the sky i think you've definitely seen it do you want to see it sure okay i'm gonna stand up everyone narrate tramp stamp above the butt crack turn around move whoa it means women hold up i don't even know if i would have known that that was a tattoo it's so bad it looks i got it in yeah i got it in um ketchikan alaska when i was working on the cruise ship and i've always had it and i can't see it so i've never been that bothered by

it and then now i'm bothered by it and i've decided i'm gonna get it lasered off it hurts have you gone yet oh have you gone no but my best friend has a trans holy canoodles i have to tell you something that Becca just put them out on the floor. I what? Like pour some out. No, I'm just moving them. Can you hear it, Heather? Yes! Gummy bears, sorry.

And we're like, what about my cow team? Okay, so the tramp stamp. I'm getting the tramp stamp removed and they're like, okay, well come for like 40 minutes and we'll put the freezing all over your body for your laser hair removal and we'll put it on your tramp stamp and then, well they don't call it a tramp stamp,

and then like after you've done all your laser hair removal then we'll do the champ stamp last when it's frozen and i'm like yeah great it's not gonna hurt that bad it was the worst pain of my life it literally felt like someone was shooting my tailbone with fire bullets you know it gets worse every time i go to what yeah it bubbles up now the good news is it was so fast because it's a pretty small tattoo so it was like and i went and then it was like okay we're done and I was like, okay, it was the worst moment of my life. Yeah, so like the more you go, the more that your tattoo fades, they have to do it stronger

and stronger and stronger. So your first time is like the least painful. Oh, God. Good luck. Okay, here's my good week. We got a new word for the dictionary. Oh, my God, me too. I hope they're not the same. Shit. I should have brought a word too. Sexpectation.

When you're expecting something special from a sexual experience and you're incredibly disappointed. Definition. The stripper from last night had a really small penis it didn't live up to my sexpectation say this again sorry i wasn't listening no here's the thing i feel like you nail it with the word and then you just it comes to a screeching halt with using it in a sentence i feel like i had such high sexpectations for sex with this person yeah yeah yeah but not like seeing his penis that's not sex okay my sexpectation was

at an old high okay that's it anyway okay my sexpectation with the sexiness of getting my tramp stamp lasered off was low nope okay it's not it doesn't oh my god oh my god okay okay i still wasn't listening okay all right um thank god you missed nothing i'm gonna go next because my good week is also a new word for the dictionary cool clash it what is it latch it i'll tell you how i learned it one of our friends matt anderson at the purveyors of pop he's a producer on many reality shows and things like that so he's around women like crazy women all the time so he's like you're not quite ratchet you're clatchet like a classy ratchet like a classy ratchet i love it how amazing

because like I will take my weave out to fight you but it'll be expensive weave and you'll be wearing a pair of like thousand dollar shoes yeah I like it that's a good one see how supportive I was about your word it was great because her word was good

and it made sense sexpectation is amazing sexpectation is good but you're putting sexpectation in a sentence that doesn't involve sex though I wasn't listening to the definition so I don't really know what I mean you said you weren't listening she didn't no you're correct but i was right yeah you're correct okay okay my bad week so you just know it's bad without even listening is that where we're at is that where she knows okay sexico um my sexpectation of a trip to sexico was so high

but it was a major disappointment a bad edit it was a major cruel edit it was bleak um like still stand strong it does so here is my bad week i'm hiking i've been hiking a lot lately with orly Because I feel like when I leave her for long amounts of the day, I, like, feel guilty and I need to, like, take her for a little hike. So I'm hiking. I get a call from my husband and he's like, there's police officers at our front door. Because he's at work and he can see in the – we have that door bird thing that, like, takes photographs of whoever's ringing the door and it goes to his phone. So he's at work and he's like, there's police officers. Are you home?

And I was like, no, I'm hiking. Like, I mean, I'm close. but what like can you ask him what they need he can talk he like talked through he could not hear anything so I'm like okay I'm gonna race home he's like they came back again twice I was like what is happening so on my drive home which is a short drive I in my mind was thinking you don't realize that when you don't know why like an officer is involved that you suddenly think of every illegal thing you've ever done oh yeah I was sure it's like when you're driving and a police officers behind you're like shit shit shit what have i done illegal but like i because they were

at my house i was like am i gonna be hauled off in my tank in my uh sports bra and fabletics pants to the like prison in la something worse so well i know but i'm like i i mean i'm so sweaty and i can't go to jail i'll make no friends being this sweaty but then i also was like remember i sort of dinged that car the other day that's a hit and run and then i was like and i peed in that girl's perked in high school i mean certainly that's illegal i mean then i thought about like is it has it been long enough can she still press charges the shit that went through my head was unbelievable i got so stressed and then i get there and i realize when you live in the hills in hollywood because of all the forest fires there's police officers that'll come around and tell you

like if there's brush too much brush in your yard or if this did you have too much brush there's a police the lot next door did and like bush yeah but i didn't find this out until i got home after my panic attack well at least you can get fired arrested jack listened to you when you were telling your story jack okay my word is sadsturbation have i done this one yet yes i did yes do you want to use mine for the person that tweeted us yes you have i was trying to pick a word that someone tweeted us yeah this is pretty good flirtationship more than a friendship less than a relationship so that's pretty much every guy that i've dated exactly flirtationship yeah that's great yeah hate it um so my bad week earlier this week i was down at my parents house

because when i moved to my new apartment i got new furniture and i left my grandma's old dresser at my parents house because i didn't want to get rid of it so we're going through it like there's a bunch of old clothes in there and i'm like have so many clothes from my ex-boyfriend so i'm like let's get all this stuff and burn it number one and we're going through going through and i'm like shit all of my like vibrators and stuff are just it on in the bottom dresser it's like do i say something i don't know and i was gonna i'm like mom by the way i think that there's some like sex stuff on the bottom and she's like yeah i just found it no and i was like oh shit gross so then the next day she comes up uh because we're getting botox together she comes to my apartment and then

like five minutes later the delivery man comes and delivers a few packages for me and there's this one package i'm like i don't know who it's from it didn't really have a return address but i'm like yeah you can open it she was like asking she's like oh you get so much like cool stuff from brands like let me open a package so she opens it she like it's the same one out a pair of earrings there's like a bracelet and then opens this cool little box handcuffs opens another box lube opens another box three sex toys i got the same like package sent to me this week well it's one of our sponsors yeah i know i didn't know so like what is this anonymous sex toy website sending me you did it anyway get it okay it's amazing i got a lot of sex toys my mom thinks

i'm probably like a so kinky yeah so before our guest comes on we have a treat for you guys so for a while we were asking for in the secret facebook group people's good week bad weeks we were picking our favorites whatever but i gotta say guys gotta step it up so now we're only gonna read when they're epic and i'm gonna give you a dramatic read subject the ultimate bad week after riding my horse no that's not dramatic enough i want like a full oscar moment have you heard of an arc as an actress thank you it all starts out very normal after riding my horse the other day i felt my tampons start to protrude out and it was very uncomfortable the barn where i keep my horse doesn't have a separate bathroom from my trainer's family so i did not want to

leave my tampon in their trash instead i pulled it out and maneuvered it in between my butt cheeks i planned to take it out at home i called my fiance on my way home and he asked me to pick up a pizza because we both didn't feel like cooking there is where it gets interesting bum bum bum i walked into our favorite pizza shop tampon in cheeks paid and grabbed my pizza And as I was walking out, I pushed the door open with my hip. I sat down in my car to leave, and I noticed the girl that rang me up run to the door with a broom. I also noticed another guy that was sitting on a booth eating run over to the door as well. They were both staring at me.

At first, I didn't think anything of it. I checked my order to make sure I had extra blue cheese, and I left. once i got home i put the pizza on the table and ran to the bathroom there was no tampon in my cheeks no tampon in my underwear down my leg anywhere in my house in the driveway or in my car then it hit me it had fallen out when i left the pizza place and that is why they were staring at me this place saves your phone number in their system so they know who you are when you call i can never order from there again using my phone because i will probably show up as tampon girl wow that was amazing even heather is clapping and she's like normally not listening thank you so

much brit wait she needs to like write for she's amazing amazing kelty what's coming up we're very excited i'm very excited you're doing a backflip i'm so excited you're listening to the lady gang she is five-time olympic medalist and four-time u.s national champion our favorite blogging business savvy gymnast joins us today. She immigrated here as a child from the Soviet Russia

with her Olympic gymnast parents Valerie and Anna Lutkin and proved that the American dream is still possible. Since winning worlds in multiple divisions

including uneven bars, balance beam, and all around, she's graduated from NYU, started her own fashion and fitness blog through which she preaches the importance of living

a well-balanced life and it is clear to us that she spends most of her free time being a boss ass bitch. Welcome to the Lady King, Nastia Lukas. Hi. Welcome.

Thank you so much for having me. First of all, your hair is insane. It's amazing. Okay. Are you Jessica Simpson in 1994 with this fullness? I know. I wish you guys could see this, but my stylist today was like, let's go for something very sleek and natural and straight.

And I was like, not feeling it. And my hair guy came over and I was like, okay, so this is what I want to do. And he was like, oh my God, I love it. It's amazing. is it done with a wand yes i don't even know you to be honest i wasn't paying i wasn't paying attention when he was doing it so i i need a tutorial the thing is is like when you watch people do your hair and makeup you're always like i should pay attention so i know how to do it and i never do like you're on your phone the whole time or you know doing whatever and then you're

like wait how do they do that yeah i also can't recreate anything so it's like yeah even if i tried i couldn't do this so i don't think there's anyone in america that doesn't know your story we're so honored to have you here we are a worldwide podcast so there might have been some australians cheering for a nemesis of yours so let's talk about this american dream of yours an incredible story when did you know that you were like special could be the best in the world i never thought that i was special but um i guess just because so both my as you mentioned both my parents were gymnasts and my dad competed at the 1988 olympic games won two gold and two silver medals. My mom was a rhythmic gymnast and a world champion. And so when I was born in Russia,

we moved over to the United States when I was about two and a half years old because my parents wanted, first of all, as their only child to give me the best possible life that they could. But then they had a dream to open up a gymnastics school one day and coach their own athletes becoming world or Olympic champions. Never imagined it'd be their own daughter. They actually really didn't want me to do gymnastics because they knew how hard it was and they just wanted me to be happy but I quickly found my happiness in gymnastics and so that's really what brought me kind of that passion and that happiness and it was my first love and you know I just loved it so much and so I never really know an exact age when I started it because when I was born and

up until I think I was four my dad was still competing and training and so I was just always in the gym with him and then they kind of realized when they started coaching first of all they didn't have any extra money at all like they were living penny to penny trying to open up this gym and so that meant no you know money for a babysitter or anything so that's how and why i spent so much time in the gym and um they they started realizing that i was like trying to copy these moves that they were teaching like the older girls and i was doing it a lot better than them and they were like oh my gosh hold on like why is she able to do that and when they realized i kind of had a little bit of a God given talent, um, and just a lot of passion. They're like, okay,

well we can't take that away from her. Uh, if, if she wants to do it, awesome. But we're never going to push her into it. Did you come out of the womb flexible? Yes. I can imagine with your two parents and foot behind head. I know I went to Pilates this morning and my friend was like, she's flexible. And the guy was like, okay. And then he was like, Oh wow. Yeah. She's, she's flexible um i get that a lot like people are always like oh like were you like a dancer i'm like no no you know like because i never am like oh hi like i was a gymnast or something but you're like you want to see my medals but yeah i was always very flexible but not strong like at all like i had to do so much conditioning and cardio and just to be able to do the skills

in gymnastics whereas normally it's the opposite you have girls that are like super strong but not flexible so yeah okay i i'm gonna get into your blog and and all of that but i do want to ask one like deep down olympic question i feel like i know what it is is it about the olympic village no oh okay i do that literally is like people ask me all the time what actually happens i bet i know what it is herpes no i want to know is about her vagina in leotards no I have like a really puffy vagina That's not my question My question is

My question is It's very voluptuous Is a nice way to put it Becca What question is this I love to watch gymnastics At the Olympics I'm like one of those people that doesn't follow it Until it's the Olympic Games

Pretty much everyone And I just wonder how you can be the best In the world make it on the olympic team do your beam fine do your floor work fine and then fall off the vault or whatever like how how does that happen you've practiced so much like how in that moment are you not just gonna land it i think what i've always said is you know obviously gymnastics is so physically challenging and and really any sport but really at that level it's it's the mental challenge and that's exactly what it is because once you're at like in the olympic all-around

finals like the top six or seven are kind of on the same level maybe a little bit stronger on certain events or not but you know if someone has a mistake mistake that day someone else could win and it kind of goes back and forth but it's like really the champions like who is mentally the toughest because that night like going back to beijing like that night was the night that it mattered most like you've done as you said you've done these routines so many times and you could do them in your sleep but when you have literally the weight and the pressure of not just your you know gym at home and your coaches your teammates but your entire country on your shoulders like you feel that and so it really is about who can handle that pressure and kind of deliver under

the pressure i've always feel sad it's hard it is i mean it is hard because especially in gymnastics like you peak really when you're 16 i was 18 at the olympics and i was like quote unquote old but for so many it's it's a once in a lifetime opportunity you can't go back like the next year and and again like i always say like not to take it away from like nfl players or the nhl but you have a super bowl next year and you know the nba playoffs next year and it's like for gymnastics for so many it's once in a lifetime if you're lucky maybe twice yeah so so what happened to the olympic village no it's so funny because everyone always everybody yeah that's what everyone says and like to be completely honest the gymnasts were so young and like we're kind

of on lockdown like we're not allowed to leave our rooms unless we're going to get like physical therapy or going to meals or something so when people start asking us we're like what do you mean like what is going on like i don't know we're just like trying to go to train you know when we train seven hours a day so it's like there's no time for anything but yeah that's what i've heard so i've never had your vagina in your body suits i don't even know because like literally people have asked me that and i'm like oh god like it i don't know no i've never used anything there's like spray or like tough skin like we i used it like on my wrist for like tape so like when you because when you get sweaty like it'll the sticking

muscle kind of slide off so i used it for that but people all of a sudden i was like seeing people spray their butt and i'm like what is that so you look at a wedgie yeah huh but no i have no idea What point in your life did you realize, I am famous? What was your ish moment? I still don't really feel like I'm famous because, I mean, I feel like right after the Olympics, there was definitely a moment because after every Olympics, people just become obsessed, you know? And it's like people want to know everything about you that had no idea about you two weeks ago, and they just want to know.

And I think maybe if there was a moment, it was when I flew back from Beijing. i was with my parents on the plane and we land we were landing i i lived in dallas and so we were landing back at home and we're like looking out the window and there's all these helicopters and i was like oh my god like what's going on you know like i hope everything's okay my dad's like yeah i don't i don't know and when we landed there was like fire trucks next to us and they started spraying the plane and i was like oh my god the plane's on fire um and apparently they only do that for captains when they retire and it's their last flight but they were like welcoming me oh my gosh yeah so it was like really cool but we were all so confused at first your parents weren't in

on it no nobody knew oh yeah which i feel like they should have given like us a little bit of like a heads up yeah um and that was also when um you could like come in to like pass security basically and so when i walked out of the gate there was like hundreds and that i think thousands of people and the really what something that was really special was there was um a group of men and women that were about to um i forget where they were going but they were heading out um basically to war and they were standing there in their military outfits and waving american flags and that's like when i broke down because and they were like saying like thank you so much you represent our country and i was like no like what i did is like absolutely nothing so i think that

was kind of a special moment and just seeing the support um from so many different people um i guess that was if, if I have had a moment, but I don't know, my life is just like so normal now when, um, I'm at home with my fiance and yeah. So you have a whole section on the blog that is sort of question and answer. Um, and one of the things that's very interesting is that you include other females in the limelight. So what is the question people get asked the most and where do people kind of go wrong in that? Um, you mean like questions that people like ask me? Yeah. Like What are they, yeah, like, what are the other Olympians and sort of moguls of the world, like, always feel the same way about? Well, I think a lot of people, first of all, like, Instagram's obviously great.

You can meet a lot of people and, you know, it's awesome. But I think it's also perceived as sometimes, like, this life that's unattainable or unachievable. And so when I speak to specifically, like, young girls, you know, I have to tell them, like, what you see on Instagram is not necessarily, like, my life. Like it's just little snippets of my life. And so I think that's hard for them to understand sometimes because they're like, oh my God, your life is perfect. And I'm like, no, it's not like I have bad days. I cry.

People upset me. You know, you, I go through the same exact things as you go through, but like you just don't see it on Instagram and what you see on Instagram, you just think like that's her whole entire life. So I think like it's obviously great to connect to people, but that's tough because I think people think that our lives are just perfect and we're lucky and we're handed things and um every single part i mean everyone in here like everybody has worked so hard to get to where you are right now and we've all you know chosen different paths but it doesn't mean that you

haven't worked hard so i think maybe sometimes like that um to me is like when when people say like oh what you're so lucky like you did this or you get to do this or something and i'm like okay like i'd rather just hang on the couch the training is so easy i was gonna say like maybe they could say that to us yeah we won a gold medal yeah no so there's gonna be this whole other thing you're so lucky you don't do anything um okay when we come back we're going to play a very special game okay what's going on now here's the lady gang we're back all right This is a game called Bronze, Silver, Gold. Ooh.

And so we have different things around Los Angeles and Hollywood, and we're going to have each member of the lady gang that's here today, and you, give them a bronze, a silver, and gold. Obviously, I don't need to explain what the bronze, silver, and gold part means. Why are you looking at me? I'm just wanting to make sure. In case you're confused. Okay, so here's the first three.

Los Angeles, Boston, Dallas. Oh, gosh. Oh, so I, okay, I get it. Well, I hope my fiance's not listening because he's from Boston, but Boston gets the bronze. Okay. Yeah, Dallas gets the silver and L.A. gets the gold. You like L.A.? Yeah.

Okay. But he also really likes L.A. too. He's just from Boston, went to school in Boston. Everybody's very prideful there. Yeah, they love Boston. Yeah, and he played hockey. So it's like very like Boston pride. Yeah.

Okay. Becca? Yeah. I'm going to have to say the same. Yeah, same. Jack? Mine, Dallas is bronze because the guy I lost my virginity to. Okay.

That was just the worst. That's a good excuse. So I have a bad connotation with Dallas and then Boston, Los Angeles. How about you? Dallas is going to get the bronze because I went on a really bad date. They have a restaurant that spins there. Oh, yeah, the reunion. I went on a date there.

It was horrible. I'm gonna give the silver to Boston because I've actually never been to Boston but I know I like it better than Dallas

and gold is Los Angeles but my real gold is not Los Angeles what's your real gold New York oh so you're from New York no but I just love New York

you love New York okay I lived there for like almost five years next one these are Hollywood gentlemen we know that

three of us are all four of us have dates okay here we go Liam Hemsworth Zac Efron or Matt Damon? Becca, you're first.

Oof. I'm going to give Liam Hemsworth the bronze. Really? Yeah. I hear he's dumb. He's dumber than dumb. Wait, but what are we talking about?

Like an overall person? This is all around. It's an all around. This is all around. It's an all around. This is who would you like to debate, Becca? No, it's the all around. You have to be attractive.

The all around. And cute. You have to be able to do beam. bars I don't even find him that attractive so I do I think he's just so hot like meathead okay okay Liam Hemsworth bronze I'm gonna give Zac Efron the silver and I'm gonna give Matt Damon the gold okay does that make me old yes a little bit because mine's like complete reverse yeah I'm just kidding Zac Efron he really is so short yeah he's so short oh I don't he's a tiny man he's so hot but he's so short well he's hot because how tall is matt god is fair matt damon is also not

tall he's probably like five nine six feet really yeah five nine to six i'm looking up his height i need to know matt damon's height before okay okay well i can vote i can vote i think that liam hemsworth is definitely my bronze you guys are insane yeah And I'm going to say... 5'10". Matt Damon's 5'10". Right. He's in between 5'9 and 6'8".

I'm going to be the same as you. Liam Hemsworth, Zac Efron for the silver because he is hot, but he's small. He couldn't quite reach the parallel bars. The parallel bars, you know what I'm saying? And Matt Damon is so nice and he really loves his family. And he married a normal girl. Yeah. A bartender.

I appreciate that. You know what? I'm going to go against how I would usually think because we're working on that, right? We're working on that. yeah i'm trying to not date hot choice of men so hot i'm still gonna say yeah zach efron is the bronze because he's too short okay um and then i'm gonna flip mine it'll go liam and then matt great okay yeah liam is gold for me then yeah then zach efron then matt damon matt damon's last i've just never been identity no talented he's he has an oscar and he does seem like you could

You should have your gold medal around the Oscar in the living room. His Oscar could wear your gold medal. That would be dope, actually, but it's not real life. That's fine. All right. What's next? Okay. Housewives, Kardashians, Bachelor.

I'm giving the Bachelor the bronze. Bitch. I don't even know you anymore. I hate the Bachelor. Bronze, Kardashians, silver, and the Housewives will always be solid gold. Have you ever watched The Bachelor, really, though? I used to watch it all in the beginning. I watched almost every season until a couple years ago,

and I was like, I can't take it anymore. I don't watch The Housewives, so. Disqualified. I don't think we can be friends. I know, I know. And the friendship is over. Like, I have to say, that's tough, because, like, the Kardashian,

it's just, like, such a guilty pleasure when you, like, can't think about anything. So I don't want to give them the gold, but they get the gold. They get the gold. And then I guess The Bachelor And then The Housewives Because I don't really watch them

I'm going to give the bronze to The Housewives And I'm going to give the Kardashians The silver because I will watch it When it's on in a nail salon And I'm going to give The Bachelor the gold Except this season of The Bachelorette Which was so

Boring And the worst ending ever And then that little guy What's his name? Hold on. Dini. Oh, Dini. Dini is just such an F-boy.

I know. Jack? He might be The Bachelor. Allegedly. Kardashians is bronze because whatever. Housewives I love, but I will never love anything more than The Bachelor. Got it. Got it.

All right. When we come back. You're so diverse. I know. I love it. Sorry. I was going to make a joke. Nasty is going to help you figure out your life because she's accomplished more by the

time she was 18 than we have. Ever. And I'm 35. and we're back and before we start ask the lady gang if you guys want 20 off with jack vandick.com use code lady gang so you're gonna help us answer some questions okay we usually give bad advice so feel free to give anything from the range of bad to decent we're not trying to give bad it just sometimes happens yeah i'll shoot for decent shoot for decent okay our first question comes from sam sam says how do you handle constantly being around a recent ex after four

months of begging me to date him this guy broke up with me about only two months in because he just didn't have feelings for me anymore and got back together with an ex-girlfriend two days later normally i pretend he died and never think of him again which is a great move but unfortunately i'm the sweetheart of his fraternity we have all the same friends and during his quest to get me to date him he even switched to the same major as me in school i can't stand being around him but everyone says i'm being dramatic for not wanting to be in the same room as him not dramatic at all i would say like get the heck away from him he sounds um yeah and and i feel like the whole that's hard because i was like when i first started dating matt um you know when you first

start dating you obviously want it to work out but you don't know and so like i specifically didn't want to become best friends with any of his friends including the girls um which now i'm best friends with all of them but um yeah i think i just was like okay let's just you know make sure this works out and then um got really close to all of them but i would just like cut off all content like block them on everything he sounds like a guy that loves the chase like he even switched his major or That's aggressive. It's so aggressive. It's crazy. And this is why you can never

text first. We've talked about this. She never said she texted first. I'm not saying she did. She said you were pursuing her for four months. Yeah, she was pursuing and she probably was like playing, like, just like, I'm not interested, I'm not interested, I'm not interested. And then she got interested. She was too interested. You always have to be aloof. My husband's still like, I don't know

if we're together. I'm not even wearing my wedding ring. You're such a bitch. That's my advice. Be cold next time. Be a little more cold. I'm going to say this. Ignore him. Like, literally, if he's in the same room, brainwash yourself that he's not. Like, he does not matter.

He does not matter. He's obviously got some issues, like, major issues. So you dodged a bullet. And then maybe, like, find someone really cute in his periphery and, like, date them. Also, just try not to hang out with your mutual friends because you're going to eventually run into him. Yeah, make new friends or in college. It'll be easy. Okay.

Next question comes from Rain, which is a great name. I'm going to be spending my next semester in Paris during an internship. I'm 21 years old and a little bit nervous to go to France alone. Do you ladies have any tips for flying, what to pack, or general travel? Any advice on how to combat potential loneliness and homesickness and how to survive being alone in a giant foreign city? That's tough. I mean, I've learned I travel so much by myself now. and I obviously would love to have like my fiance or like a best friend or even now that I'm older

like have my mom come with me or something but sometimes you can't so I've kind of learned to like embrace being by yourself and take that time to focus on yourself and get a lot of books even if you don't like to read try to make yourself read a little bit and really just like focus on yourself and think about what your goals are and the future and explore the city I mean even if you don't have a friend like i mean especially paris like there's so much to see and um ask strangers to take pictures for you my advice is wipe down your airplane seat with a with a bleaching rag before you wet wipe that has bleach in it before you start don't drink the coffee or tea on an airplane because it comes from a giant held basin in the bottom of the airplane it's not

like bottled water and they can't clean out that base or the ice or the ice nothing none of those three things and then my last piece of travel advice is when you get to the hotel room take whatever coverlet or whatever's on the bed off with a tiny little pick of your tweezers so that you don't have to lay on someone else's semen good night it's very thought out but then when you get there rain very good travel tips she said no i yeah she did she asked for travel tips thank you take a xanax maybe i don't know i was gonna say an ambient um for the long flight um yeah i think if i could go back in time when i was 21 which was like only a couple years ago i would have taken every opportunity to explore the universe whether it be by myself or alone i

actually think i didn't do it enough alone so now at the age of 31 if i were to travel like by myself which i sometimes do but internationally it would feel like i i would be nervous just like you but i'm 31 and you can't teach an old dog new tricks you're 21 you're not married you don't have kids like you can go out there and like reinvent yourself or become like this amazing worldly cultured woman like you are you are in such a cool position so take advantage and maybe meet a hot guy while you're there yeah exactly well also i feel like most people when they're that young and traveling at least me when i was traveling in my early 20s i with friends everybody is like partying and you know not really taking in like the culture of a city as much as you would

be able to if you were alone and actually had that kind of time on your hands so i think really take advantage of that and just see as much of the city as you can and be like a local there's a really really good vintage shop in paris that has all designer stuff but it's really cheap i'm going to find out the name and i'll tweet and she has to go to the um cemetery there maybe you should Spell that out. Yeah. Okay. Or tweet it.

Next question. Next question. Okay. Last question comes from Tara. Tara says, how do you guys handle having your periods around your boyfriends? I've been with my boyfriend for a year. It doesn't phase him when he finds it's that time of the month, but I always get really embarrassed when I have to change my pad in his bathroom.

It's such a loud thing to unwrap. Also, what do you do with the pad afterwards? Do you leave it in his trash or what do you do? How do you stop the pad from being so loud when you unwrap them? This is an amazing question because, listen, before you get wise to the tampon or what do you have? IUD. An IUD. Yeah.

And you're doing a pad. It is like a little bit like Becca trying to unwrap the candy at the lady gang. She has it like under the table. I'm like, we can still hear this. And I totally get that. And also the vision of like your guy being like she's unwrapping the giant towel that sits between her legs. I'm not a fan of pads, and I'll tell you what I do love that I think could be good for you is the Thinx underwear. Oh, you're going to say the Diva Cup.

Oh, my God. I thought you were going to say that, too. I have the Thinx underwear, and I wear them, like, at night or, like, for, you know, and they're really great. I mean, it's not good for your, like, your heaviest, heaviest day, even though they say they are, but it's, like, kind of cute. And then I would say just, like, have a Ziploc in your bag so that you can, like, change out your little underwear. And so you don't have to do the pads. Or if you really want to continue with the pads, unwrap them when you're home, put them in a Ziploc because a Ziploc might be like a little bit quieter and then put that or

put it in your toiletry bag. Yeah. Yeah. Also, what do you do with the pad after? Afterwards, you're going to wrap toilet paper around it. Yep. So that you can conceal. Like a lot.

Like a lot. And fill the trash can up with one pad. And then time. And yeah, there you go. But also, is her boyfriend gross like a lot of guys when they're younger and like don't take their trash out for weeks? I thought you were going to say, like, never mind. It might be good to, like, stick the toilet paper wad pad up your sleeve

and then make sure it goes in the kitchen bathroom garbage. If they've been together for a year, it's like, okay, we'll go get your period once a month. I get, like, the first few weeks or months, maybe. Or just put that toilet – this is gross, but bring an extra toiletry bag and put that in there. Or, like, a little plastic bag and put it in your – We've all done it. Yeah, it's true. We've all done it.

Yeah. You know? Listen. We've all done it and then left it in the trash And then your dog like comes and eats it up We've all done it Amen We're so happy you're here

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What are you talking about right now up there on the blog um my next one definitely needs to be a little bit more fitness stuff i feel like i've slacked a little bit both on the blog and in real life um you look at girl no the other day right when i got in so i got in on tuesday flew across the country and um my friend sean is here too and she's like let's go for a run it'll be like just a quick light run i'm like okay yeah that sounds great you know right off the plane five miles later oh yeah all hills like uphills and it felt like it was 100 degrees outside i thought i was gonna pass out like i was so overheated and i don't know i'm normally not one to complain but i was just like i'm never doing this with you again

bye girl bye that's a mean well when the olympics come to la can we please go to the gymnastics with you yes are you gonna could you be like a correspondent for someone she has been so yeah i commentate for nbc now great um so rio was my first olympics commentating crushed it guys oh No way, that's amazing. That was your voice that I was hearing because I watched. Damn! That's really cool. So I can't wait to see you in LA.

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