Well with Arielle Lorre - 397: Travel Diaries, The Confidence and Body Image Tips You’ve Never Heard, Beauty Treatments I’m Planning

Episode Date: June 25, 2025

In this solo episode I give you a peek behind the scenes of my current travels, sharing what you don’t see on social media. I also share my thoughts on wellness during travel, body image and confidence tips you’ve never heard, my insecurities, how to navigate fear and live life to your fullest, and beauty treatments I’m planning on doing. This episode may contain paid endorsements and advertisements for products and services. Individuals on the show may have a direct, or indirect financial interest in products, or services referred to in this episode.Visit justthrivehealth.com/discount/well for 20% off your first 90 day bottle of Just Thrive with promo code WELL.Go to oseamalibu.com and use code BLONDE for 10% off. Go to ro.co/BLONDE to see if your insurance covers GLP-1s for free.Go to Ritual.com and get 25% off your first month for a limited time at ritual.com/BLONDEVisit hungryroot.com/blonde to get 40% off your first box and a free item of your choiceVisit fatty15.com/WELL and use code WELL at checkout for 15% off their 90-day subscription Starter Kit. Produced by Dear Media.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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honesty, and leave with the tools to be well, inside and out. Hi, everybody, welcome to the show. It is June 17th. I am recording this from London. I was in Santropay for the past week. I was in Spain before that and London before that. And I was supposed to go to Capri on Wednesday, which is still happening. But I had a little hair emergency in Santropay. So I am here in London to see the queen of blonde, Nicola Clark, thanks to my colorist in L.A., Liz Jung, who got me in with her, which was massive, because she is like the most in-demand colorist. She does all the Cates, Kate Blanchet.

Kate Winslet, Kate Moss, she's done Madonna forever, she does Amelia Clark, Jody Comer. I'm just going off the people on her Instagram. There's probably a lot more than that. It's impossible to get in with her. And basically what happened in Santropay was I went to get like a gloss and it made my hair very dark. And I think I've learned my lesson about getting my hair done in France. No offense to France. I'm obsessed with the French people, the French culture, France, in general, everywhere. I'm like a total francophile. However, every time I've gotten my hair done there, I don't have a great experience. So I was super, super dark, and I was like, I have like another month on my travels,

and this is not going to be looking good. So a little bit extra, but here I am. So popped over to London for 48 hours, and then I go to Capri. We are in Capri for a night. And then we are going on our friend's yacht for a few days. We're going to go to Panarea. And then we're going to hop off, go meet my family in Tuscany for a week. So my family got a villa there.

It's my parents, my brother, my sister-in-law, my niece, my nephew, my aunt and uncle, my cousin, her daughter, so a bunch of us, it's going to be so fun, my boyfriend, obviously. We have this amazing chef in the villa. I think he's from Kianti. I believe so I'm going to be hitting you guys with all the pizza and pasta making content. So get ready for that. Sorry if this is obnoxious. I know that I see other people's content and I'm like I could not care less about their vacation. I really don't care. So hopefully that's not the case here. If it is, I totally understand. But, you know, this is just my life right now. So anyway, then Chris and I are going to go to Lake Como for a few days. And then we're going to do, I think, a night in Florence. And then we go back to the south of France. And then we go back to the south of France. So we have a four-day bop mitzvah in can, and then we got a house in Santropay after that. So I definitely met my match in my boyfriend when it comes to traveling. Like we are the same where we will and we want to go anywhere anytime.

And I feel like when it comes to finding the right partner, it's obviously very important to have values alike and to want the same things. when it comes to the relationship, sorry, guys, I'm still a little sick, so I might sound nasally and like I'm making weird mouth noises. But anyway, so I think it's important to share values, obviously. And then there's general compatibility. But I also feel like lifestyle compatibility is a huge thing as well. And I don't just mean like being able to pick up and travel and be bougie at the drop of a hat. Although in my situation, it's very convenient that both of our jobs and our lifestyles allow us to do that and we both enjoy it. It's what we love, you know. But even things like going to bed and waking up around the same time, I feel like that's really important. I've been

thinking about that as well. So when Chris and I met, I remember it was like the second or third day that we were hanging out. I don't know if I told this story here, but you guys probably don't want to hear it. But anyway, we were on like our second or third date, although we hung out for like days in a row because we were in Florida. So we were talking about our lives in L.A. And I said that I went to bed at 9. And he said that he went to bed at like 12, 1231. And I was like, we'll see about that. I don't know if that's going to work for me. And then there have only been a handful of nights in a year and a half that I've fallen asleep first because we kind of met in the middle. And he just falls asleep before me. He would hate that I'm telling you guys this. But anyway, I have friends who will sleep.

until 10 or 11 in the morning and stay up super late and it's fine once in a while, but that probably wouldn't work for me in a relationship. I don't know if it's a deal breaker. But what I'm trying to say is that there are a lot of different forms of compatibility that are important and that doesn't mean that you have to be the same people. My boyfriend and I are very different in a lot of ways, which is fine. I can't remember who said this, but like I don't want another me and he doesn't want another him just with boobs, you know? But you've got to align on the important stuff. So anyway, I don't know how I completely got off on that tangent. I've been running around a lot.

This is probably not the best day for me to be recording a solo because my brain is all over the place. But I was talking about compatibility and having the same lifestyle as your partner. So we were in Abiza before this and we were in London. The day that we flew from London to Spain, I got a nasty virus. literally the first day that we were in Abiza for our friend's birthday. And it was like 80 people and everything was planned the whole weekend. And we woke up at 4 o'clock in the morning in London. I had been there for like three nights and I was thriving. I was a little jet lagged this trip because normally I don't sleep well on the plane. And so the first night that I get to wherever I'm

going, I'm so exhausted that I sleep like 10 hours and then I'm just automatically acclimated this time. I slept like a baby on the plane, like eight or nine hours maybe, probably eight. So that first night in London, I was just wide awake. So anyway, it was a little harder for me than usual this trip. But I was doing really well. I worked out. I was working. We saw friends.

Harley and his wife were there. We woke up at 4 o'clock in the morning that Friday to fly to Abiza for the first part of our trip, which was this birthday party extravaganza. Our friends went all out. and I woke up with a sore throat and I was like, there's no way. I mean, I have the worst travel karma when it comes to getting sick, getting injured. I don't know if you guys remember in Greece a few years ago when I injured my foot, tore a ligament, and it pulled a piece of the bone off. Like it was no joke. It's just always something. And, oh, I got sick in Pula and had to have

the doctor come in Rome because I flew from Pula to Rome with my girlfriend. And I had to get a shot in my butt and then like get all of this nausea medication. And that was when I went out on that Vespa tour with the cute guy and everybody thought that I hooked up with him, which I did not. Anyway, yeah, I just have the worst travel karma. So I was like, there's no way this is happening. Like, this cannot be happening. And I thought maybe I was just so tired because we woke up at four. And as the day progressed, it got worse and worse. I tried. to rally and I went to the welcome party thing. It was a white party. And then I got to the dinner and halfway through the dinner, I was like, I could not even get a word out. It was razor blades in my

throat. It felt like somebody was choking me. It was so tight. I was achy. You know, when you're going down, I was like, I am going down. And I didn't want to get other people sick. So my boyfriend was like you got to go up to the room. He was trying to find a doctor. I mean, it was like all hands on deck from him, which was very sweet. And he was going back and forth between the party and checking on me. A doctor came at like 12.30 in the morning and looked in my throat and was like, oh yeah, it's very red. I was like, you think? At that point, I was just not doing well. Fever, all of that. And so I was sick pretty much the whole weekend. So it was horrible for a. a few days and then I was able to pull it together a little bit, but the first week in general was

really not good. Now I'm going on two weeks. I still have a cough and this sinus situation going on. Like I've never had this much congestion in my life. I never had a cough this relentless in my life, but for people who asked how I liked Abiza, I was pretty much in bed the whole weekend aside from the last day when we took a boat to Formantera, which was great. It was beautiful. We went to this cool restaurant and beach club called Duo. I was definitely not 100%. I was pounding diet coaks to keep me going, which worked for the day did not work for the next day. You know, when you are one step forward, two steps back, that was me. That's my MO and I just pushed it too hard. Also, I don't drink soda at home, but something about Europe just makes me want a nice cold diet Coke or a Coke.

I don't really care. In fact, I think the regular is less chemically. It also makes me want a cigarette, to be totally honest, and over 11 years of sobriety, I've never wanted a drink, but sometimes I want a cigarette. It's pretty much exclusively when I'm in Europe, but I also haven't smoked in over 11 years. I would probably pass away with how sensitive I am. Although, this is a total side note, but some people have recommended trying nicotine therapy, like microdosing nicotine patches for me for my health stuff, which I have not tried. It's kind of interesting. It seems like people with long COVID and some autoimmune issues, some MCAS issues, which if you listened to my episode with Michelle Shapiro, she thinks that long COVID is just a form of MCAS, mass cell activation

syndrome. So very closely linked, but that has been my past few weeks. I feel like I just took you guys on a roller coaster ride. And with the sickness, to be fair, there's a lot going around. especially in Europe right now. So I guess better to get it over with the first part of the trip, knock on wood. So that was not part of the plan, but I'm happy to be in London. It's so gorgeous here. I have a few things to get done besides the hair that I can only do in a major city versus being in St.ropay or Capri. And that is that. You guys know that I am skincare obsessed. And I think that there are so many amazing things happening in the skincare space, one of them being ingestible skincare. I know that there have been so many questionable beauty trends over the years, and I'm sure

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so hot. It was a total zoo. Okay. So they don't tell you where your gate is until like five minutes before your flight. And if you ask anybody, they don't know where it is. So it was like impossible trying to get to the gate. I don't have to tell that whole story. But they changed it a few times. And everybody from my flight was going from one gate to another, just like in a herd. finally we get to the gate and we get to a bus that takes us from the terminal to the plane. It was 90 degrees out and we get to the plane and the plane was not ready for us to get on. So they leave us sitting, standing in the bus, completely packed, you know, like when they just pack you in like sardines. There's no AC and the doors are shut and they leave us like that for like 20 minutes, not exaggerating.

And when we were going from gate to gate and then getting on the bus, I saw somebody who looked kind of familiar. But I was like, no, no. So then we're on the bus and I'm standing and there's a woman sitting with her daughter and she looked familiar still. And I was like, no, there's no way. Everybody is dying, okay, of like heat stroke, sweating, it's disgusting. Finally, this woman was like, I'm going to pass out. And everybody was being pretty dramatic because it was miserable. But there was this one woman sitting there very chill, not complaining. like everybody else, she looked familiar, but very low key, no makeup, some gray hair, t-shirt glasses, watching something on her iPad, and she was with what seemed to be her daughter. So anyway,

I was like, no, she would not be on this flight. And then I heard her speak and I was like, that is Salma Hayek. That's pretty crazy. I don't know much about her other than having seen her in some movies and I loved her interview on armchair expert. It's like the only other podcast I listened to. And she seemed very down to earth and very spiritual and cool on that episode. But I was like, isn't she married to an Arnold? I don't know if I'm pronouncing that right. Like the family that owns LVMH, like the richest people in Europe. I couldn't believe it. So when we got to Heathrow in London, I saw at baggage claim she was standing right next to me. And at that point she was with what seemed to be a publicist or somebody, I clocked her.

She had a Himalayan Berkin and more of an entourage. And I heard her talking. She was being very nice and warm and friendly with everybody. And I was like, wow, that's very cool. I mean, why she was on a commercial flight, especially a short one, it's like an hour and a half, two hours. I don't know. I really don't. I mean, her husband is like rich, rich, like many, many billions rich. And I don't know. It's just very unexpected. You would think that somebody with that kind of well, would not want to be flying commercial and dealing with all of the BS that we had to deal with on that specific flight on that day. I mean, I'll admit, even when I was with Chuck, I hated flying commercial when I had to. So I guess she's a better person than me. And she

looked amazing, by the way, with no makeup. Anyway, I just wanted to share that stars are just like us. Okay. Let's see. Since I'm on the topic, of travel. A lot of people asked about travel tips and wellness while traveling. So I feel like I'm always saying this, but I think of wellness the same way that I think about my recovery. So we have this saying in recovery, and it's that we wear our recovery like a loose garment, meaning it's not constricting. We have space to move through the world and adapt. It's always part of us, but it's not suffocating, essentially. At least that's my interpretation of it. So I really feel the same way about wellness. I wear it like a loose garment and I'm not rigid with it at all.

Instead, I have a set of tools and I use them differently depending on circumstances, which are always changing. My life and my body and my health are not this static thing where I can use the same tools and routines day and day out and have the same results. None of us can. You know, at home I have certain things that I try to stick to like a certain amount of sleep, going to bed more or less at the same time daily or nightly, food before caffeine, a meditation at least once in the morning, limiting screen time in the morning and night, and exercise. I would say those are my pretty basic non-negotiables at home. When I'm traveling, it's totally different. I've been eating dinner at like 9, 9.30, sometimes even 10, bed around midnight, waking up at like 9 a.m.

or later. waking up at 9 a.m. with an alarm, by the way. Like I have to force myself to wake up at 9, which is crazy, because I don't think in 11 plus years I have slept past 745 or 8 when I'm not traveling. Pretty crazy. Like I just cannot do it. No exercise here since when I first got here in London. Obviously that was not part of the plan, but I'll get to that. I'm eating everything under the sun, getting on my phone when I wake up. I'm answering Q&As and DMs and working at midnight because of the time difference,

like things that I would never do at home, which would absolutely wreck me. But I feel so much better and I feel so different here. My nervous system is so calm for the most part. I feel great with the food, all of that. So I can handle doing things that I would never do in my day-to-day routine at home because they would make me feel absolutely freaking horrible. So all of that is to say, I think if I was trying to like stick to routines when I was traveling, I would just feel like I was failing.

So when I travel, it's more like checking in with myself daily. Do I need to do anything differently? what does it feel like I need today, that kind of thing. I was feeling really hungover a few days ago in Santropay. I was like, you know, maybe I need to stop with the afternoon Diet Coke's and maybe like cut back on the fries just a little bit. Diet Coke's fries and the beach. That's my Holy Trinity on vacation. But I was waking up feeling like I literally had a hangover and sensed that that might be part of it, not drinking enough water. These are little tweaks that I can identify or just be like, you know, maybe I need like a vegetable for a day. Maybe like have the bread, the fries, the Diet Coke, pasta. So much bread, you guys. So much bread. Pastries. It's just so good. But maybe I need a vegetable

thrown in there, you know. So these are like things that I can tweak really easily. I would say very basic tips would be to bring electrolytes because not being properly hydrated can actually cause so many symptoms that can mimic other things. So when I was not well in Abiza, one of the girls there had some element. And I was like, thank God because I ran out. And it really changed how I felt. And that's not because they sponsor my podcast. It's because it really makes such a big difference for me, being hydrated, being optimally hydrated. If exercise is part of your routine at home, I think it's a good thing to try and stay consistent with that, at least a little bit. I could because I got sick, but I'm going to start again because I feel like it just helps with sleep,

with jet lag, it helps mentally, the continuity is good. It really reminds me that whatever you're doing becomes your lifestyle. So at home, I was very on my workout game, super consistent. I craved it. I felt myself getting strong, and that was my lifestyle. And here, I just lay around and that's become my lifestyle. I mean, we're active, walking around, doing different things. But like the no exercise becomes the lifestyle. So other than those few things, I would just say don't stress about wellness. Being on vacation, enjoying food, enjoying life, hopefully not working too much, being with friends or a partner or family or meeting new people or solo, having new experiences. That is wellness. It's not just our routines and workouts and diets and juices and meditations and everything that you see on social media.

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actually different, so histamine intolerance is what it sounds like. You're sensitive to histamines. It can present often like digestive issues, skin issues, rashes, itching, flushing, hives, GI, stuff, bloating, constipation, diarrhea, things like that. It can also include things like joint pain, dizziness, nausea, but usually I think when it's real, just histamine intolerance, it's mostly like dermal and digestive. I could be wrong. And then it flares usually with foods that are higher in histamine or foods that contain histamine liberators. So like tomatoes, eggplant, spinach, avocado, chocolate, basically all the fun things. High in histamine. Cinnamon is a histamine liberator. Some of my worst flares have been after cinnamon, ironically, whereas some high

histamine things I'm totally fine with. Side note, I can't remember who I was talking to about this, but they were like, oh, Tom Brady was like the OG histamine person. Remember when he had that crazy, crazy diet? And he like said that he didn't eat tomatoes and people thought that that was crazy. Well, maybe he has histamine issues or just didn't want any ounce of potential inflammation. So histamine intolerance can be manageable through a low histamine diet over the counter anihistamines. obviously there's more natural things that you can use, but these things also help M-Cast or mast cell activation syndrome, but it's different. So mast cell activation syndrome is a disorder of the mast cells, which are part of your immune system, the part that tells histamine to release

along with other inflammatory cytokines. It's like a step before histamine, and it can perceive so many different things as threats. So I've gotten quite a bit of relief from my antihistamine regimen that I've talked about in my episode dedicated to this. So if you're interested, go listen to that with Michelle Shapiro. It's a lot of medication, a lot of anihistamines. But it got me back to like probably the best I've felt since before I got sick from Botox, which is what set off this whole cascade of issues. But that said, when I'm in LA, I react way more to food, to stress, to temperature changes, exercise, chemicals, all of these things that are known to trigger mast cells to react when you're dealing with this. And the tricky thing and the horrible thing for people who have this way worse than I have

is that it can be anything, really. So for me, I don't live in a bubble. I eat out a lot. I live my life. But I have to be way more cognizant when I'm at home. Whereas on vacation, I'm pretty much fine with everything, which begs the question what the F is wrong with America. Obviously right now a lot, but I won't get into that. So when I travel, knock on wood, I can be pretty free, although I still take my anihistamine regimen, which I share in that episode. And then when I get back to L.A., my doctor is starting me on ketodafin, which is a mast cell stabilizer. So it prevents the mast cells from reacting, basically. So hopefully then I can go off the anihistamines and just be on this mass cell blocker stabilizer thing. So that's niche. Hopefully you're still with me.

It is shocking to me how many women in particular are dealing with this lately. It can be triggered by things like stress and chemical exposure. You know, I'm not the toxin police and I mean toxin broadly, like everything we're exposed to. I don't just mean neurotoxin. But I know women have such higher rates of autoimmune. And it makes you wonder if all of the stuff that we do is like poisoning us from nails to Botox to filler to hair to spray tans to brows to lashes and on and on. Speaking of toxic stuff, a lot of people asked me about the Coco-Chogo hair treatment that I did before I left, which is basically a less toxic keratin treatment, although I think it's still pretty toxic. I have to say I don't get as good results as from keratin and I pretty much die during both

treatments, so I don't know what the solution is. And by dye, I mean, I do it outside because of the fumes. I have to wear a mask and goggles or glasses. Goggles sometimes trap the fumes, so it's not good, but I can't open my eyes for like the hours that it's being done because if I open them, even in the slightest, they burn and I pour tears like I've never seen before. And my throat burns. It's like I can't breathe. It's really crazy. Meanwhile, Danny, who does my hair, is like, completely fine. So this past time that I did it with the cocoa choco, I did all of that. We did it outside. I pre-treated with like two extra Allegra and it helped me not go into a total flare after. I had one of my worst MCAS flares ever after doing keratin last September. I was so sick for a week. So now I really only

do it like twice a year if that before a long trip when I don't want to deal with styling my hair. And it basically just makes it smoother and more manageable. But yeah, my hair has not really been a on this trip anyway because it's been humid and now I have this situation that I have to deal with. But it actually turned out to be a good thing because I loved meeting Nicola. She did an amazing job. I should have her on the podcast sometime because she has probably got some stories. I mean, she's done everyone, everyone. And for so long too. I actually saw today that she did Leonardo's hair in that movie The Beach, which is like iconic. And also who knew? Okay. Switching gears, The questions, as usual, are all over the place. I will definitely get to some of the quicker

ones and beauty ones, but I'm trying to answer things I don't talk about all the time. I got a question about body image idols, goals, and comparison. So I will preface this by saying I just care so much less at my age and I have genetically what society would consider a good body. So that definitely helps. You know, I have goals getting in my best shape ever, but that obviously has taken a back seat during my trip, although I will start working out again once I have the energy. But I don't really compare myself to other people. I learned super early on in recovery that comparison is the thief of joy, period. Look at how we spend our days. We're on social media. We're consciously or subconsciously comparing ourselves to others. That's why I try to always be open about what I'm going

through beneath the surface because I'm sure on social it looks like my life is carefree and perfect and it's not. I deal with stuff all of the time. I always have something I'm struggling with or working on. Like I'm not perfect by any means, but I learned not to compare my insides to other people's outsides. And that's really what we do when we compare ourselves to other people. We never know what's going on. And let me just tell you, having met so many famous people, so many like, beautiful, revered, admired people, the people you would think have it all in our loving life are often the most insecure people I've ever met. And it's that whole thing with chasing perfection and external validation. It's never enough. It's never good enough. The goalpost is always moving.

That's not to say that you can't have goals and aspire to accomplish things and want to have everything in life. And it doesn't mean that you're not going to enjoy that, but I just mean when comparing, you know, you just never know what it's actually like. So that said, the things that helped me the most with my body image when I did struggle were first working on how I identify myself. Like, what is my identity outside of how I look, outside of what I do, outside of how much money I have or money I make, all of that. It's really hard because at first I was like, well, these are the big things. But it's so ingrained in us that these things determine our worth. So therapy was really helpful for that. You know, my body is going to change. My face is going to change. My skin is going to change. And then what? Like, I'm not worthy then.

And, you know, that's the stuff that you can confront, obviously, when you're around my age and beyond. But it really is crazy when you say it out loud. Like, your worth is not tied to your body. And, okay, Now that I say that out loud, you can argue with that because societally, you know, we do place a lot of value there. But anyway, just go with me here. So that's one. Two, I don't know, I just can't really get on the self-love train. I mean, if you do and you practice self-love and you're into that, that's great. But I think neutrality is more realistic and more sustainable. And I think it's healthier. I think it's a better goal. Like, how about instead of obsessing about loving ourselves, we just think less. about ourselves, period. I don't think that a good body image is necessarily loving how you look. I think it's about not obsessing over it so much. So again, you can have goals. You can want to lose weight. You can want to look hot. You can want to tone up whatever you want to do. I want to do most of those things, not lose weight, but like tone up and look good and all of that. Listen to my episode with Amanda Hirsch from last week. I loved that conversation because it was so honest. She was like, yeah, you can talk about body

positivity, but that's not what's being said behind closed doors. So let's all be like honest here, you know? So you can want those things. And I think it's important to have something to motivate you and all of that. But like detach from it a little bit and be cognizant about how much room it's taking up in your head and what that outcome means to you. You know, like literally you can write it down and be like what does having my goal body? Like what does that mean to me? I don't know and try to peel back the layers, you know. Finally, I think I saw this on TikTok or something, but we tend to have this watchers perspective about ourselves, meaning we attach our identity to how we imagine other people see us, which is crazy, right? Like we have no idea how other people see us because we can't see ourselves without biases.

And we will never know how others perceive us. When I think of my boyfriend and my boyfriend and head or I think of my best friend. I never think about their crow's feet, you know, or the lines in the forehead or the shape of their body, like whatever it is, you know. I never think about that when I think of somebody. And yet on ourselves, myself included, I'm calling myself out, we think that these things are the most prominent things, right? The things that people see first or the things that people will remember us for, the extra five pounds, whatever your thing is. I literally never think about somebody's body or like specific things in their body or their face when I think about them unless I think really, really hard, right? So remember that with yourself. Switch your perspective

to first person. What does it feel like to live in your body? Not to look at your body from this other like mythical perspective. How does it feel to experience life in your body. Hopefully this is a good thing. Hopefully you're not really struggling and it's not like miserable. Otherwise, I'm totally screwing you right now. But anyway, I think it's a good thing to practice. So, okay, you didn't want a lecture. You probably just wanted me to answer the questions point blank. Like, whose body do I love? How do I stay thin and small? What are my goals? For me, it's like almost all genetics. I've said that ad nauseum. And then if I'm trying to get toned and put muscle on with my trainers back in L.A., you know, I'm just working out with that goal

in mind. And when it comes to bodies that I appreciate, I can't think of anybody who I'm like, wow, I want their body. I do get spaghetti arm envy, if you want me to be totally honest. I love a little stick spaghetti arm. My friends and I call them noodle arms. We love them. I have them. I have naturally toned arms no matter what. And I used to hate it, but now I am neutral. But hopefully I answer that question. Okay. I had questions about confidence too, which I would recommend listening to my episode with Caroline Stanberry. I feel like she had some good advice when it came to confidence. Also Dr. Margie Worrell, her episode, I just want to carry her around with me in life. She's amazing. It was a lot of talk about moving through fear and having courage, but it was so,

motivating and I remember that there was a lot of confidence building as well but I think at the end of the day we think of confidence as a feeling right how do I feel more confident I want to feel confident yes having a good hair or good skin day doing something you're good at or passionate about wearing something amazing being with the right person being with your friends getting that fresh spray tan crushing it in the gym losing weight gaining weight whatever your thing is there are things that can temporarily lend themselves to feeling more confident. But for me, a lot of times confidence is a choice. It is an active decision. I am deciding to be confident. And then I'm acting how I believe the most confident version of me would act. It's kind of like borrowing from a different self,

a different part of myself, faking it till I make it. Nobody feels confident all the time, I don't think. But a lot of us choose to feel confident. and choose to feel whatever fears or anxieties we have and not let them dictate our lives. And that was what Margie was talking about, like that gap between fear and courage. So there's a version of you that can be the most confident person. You just have to choose it, to access it, to act as if there's something that I do in recovery around fear. And it's basically ask whatever you believe in. For me, I'm not religious, but I have.

a version of a God that I believe in. You can call it the universe, God, your higher self, whatever. Insert your thing here. So if I have a fear that is really coming up a lot or I have something scary that I have to do, I ask that thing, or better yet, I write it down, who would I be without this fear? How would I act? What would I do? What would I say? How would I carry myself? and I literally just do those things. Whatever is keeping you from feeling confident, just write it down. Who would I be without this blank hindering my confidence or making me feel anxious or making me feel less than? Or even easier you could write down what would the most confident version of me do today or do in this situation and then try to just do it.

I stand by what I said. It's a decision. It's a choice. I always say this too. but the action precedes the feeling. Act confident. Do the thing that the confident version of you would do. And then you'll feel more confident.

Okay, switching gears now. The tan. Everybody is asking about my tan. So I've shared this on Instagram and probably talked about it here as well. But in L.A. I usually just spray tan for events or short vacations. Last summer, I had a real tan all summer because I was traveling nonstop and I was on boats and beaches and inevitably in the sun. But I just feel like a dark tan at my age is not cute, especially after all of the tanning that I did when I was younger, which I always say is my one regret.

I'm starting to suffer the consequences of that now. But I did get a spray tan on this trip before Abiza in London with James Harknet. he was amazing. Such a great tan. He used this product, I believe it's called Three Wishes. He gave me the products after I have them. I'm going to do them tonight. I think it's non-toxic. I usually do violet undertones, but I think this was more of a green undertone or like reddish. I could be wrong, but it was a really pretty brown on me. And honestly, I still have a lot of that tan left and it's been almost two weeks. Then in San Troupe, I was in the sun quite a bit. So I was under umbrellas, but in the morning, we would sit outside at breakfast and, you know, walking on the beach and

things like that. I was in the sun. I got some natural color there. I did not do any lasers this past year except that baby CO2 around my eyes that didn't do anything because I didn't want to go too hard. I didn't do anything on my body. I don't know what I was doing. People think I do all these lasers all the time and I really don't. I literally have not done anything beauty-wise in so long. Someone asked for an update on that on the latest beauty things that I've done. And literally it's nothing. I haven't even done micrneedling. I haven't done lasers. I haven't done injections. Aside from that little baby CO2, nothing, but I want to and I need to. And I will tell you when I do. So with the tanning, I'm so tempted to get a natural tan, but I just feel like at this age, it's just not good. And then I need to like go in and

try to reverse any of the damage with lasers. And it's also like a skin type thing. Some people can do it, you know, but I have thin white girl skin and I have skin that I tanned obsessively when I was younger. So I just have to be way more cognizant. But I do feel like nothing beats a natural tan as far as aesthetic and how it looks and just the ease of that, but it's not worth it in the long run. So, yeah, I'm going to use these three wishes products tonight to tan myself. I will share them. And I just have to accept an imperfect self-tan and not have that feeling of being out in the sun all day, baking, and then you take that shower and you're brown and you feel good.

It's just not in the cards for me anymore. And then I do body bronzer on days that I have to be on camera. So I usually will tan like my neck, my chest, my arms, if I'm podcasting. And that part of me is going to be exposed. It's usually never a full spray tan, like I said, unless I have an event or I have a trip coming up. Favorite body SPF? I honestly don't have one. It's whatever I find wherever I'm traveling. And in L.A. if I'm going for a walk or doing something outside. I just use Super Goop or L-To-M-D body or vacation. I get so many of these things from these brands to begin with. And in Europe, you guys probably know they have this brand called Nux. I don't know if I'm pronouncing that right. NUXE. I think I am. It just smells like

summers to me because I always buy their body oils and their sunscreens on my summer travels. They have this SPF 50 oil that I love. So I've been using that. I love vacations, SPF oil. That's all I can really think of. I just don't have a ride or die when it comes to body SPF. Latest skin stuff I have done. So like I said, with the latest beauty stuff, absolutely nothing.

I honestly think in the time since I stopped getting Botox almost two years ago, I've had two facials with Candace, maybe three, maybe, maybe three. I think too. She can correct me. But either two or three. I did a light fractal four months after the Botox. We didn't want to go too hard because I was reacting to everything. That was December 2023. That little CO2 around my eyes, I think that's it. The biggest misconception about me, well, there's probably quite a few. But I think that a big one is what I said, before that I'm constantly doing office treatments. And there's nothing wrong with that. I wish I was. I just really have not had the bandwidth or the downtime to be doing anything. And it just hasn't really

crossed my mind. I don't know. I probably will get back in there and start doing stuff. But it's just not been the case at all these last two years. I definitely feel like I need something. I was looking at my face yesterday. And ever since I stopped doing Botox, which I do miss because it would just make things so much easier. But I just have not thought about my face in the same way that I did then. It's that whole chasing perfection thing that I talked about. And, you know, people tell me that I look better. I think that I looked better than in some ways when I was getting it. It's not easy. It's really not easy. But it also has had this weird effect where I just haven't been obsessing in the same way that I used to obsess in the same way that like anybody who's doing it kind of obsesses. I use that word

loosely. It's not like it was taking up so much space in my mind. But as soon as I saw a wrinkle, I was going in for Botox. And I think I'm just in this place of acceptance right now. Maybe that's what happened. But because I'm not going in every three or four months for Botox, doing anything else is just not top of mind to me. So I think when you're in that routine of going in to see your injector or going to the doctor, whoever you see, you're like, ooh, what else is here on this menu? What else can I do? You know, you're talking to them. They're looking at you. And I just have not had that. So that said, I need some help. Things are looking a little bit, blah. Maybe I feel like I need a little pop of lip filler. I know that there are people who don't do Botox, who are very, very anti-filler as well. People who say

that they have been damaged from filler in the same way that I was affected from Botox. But that has not been the case for me. I've gotten a little bit of lip filler since the Botox thing. But I think it's time for a little more. It's like my body just metabolizes the stuff so quickly and I get such a small amount, usually like 0.25 of a syringe, if that, I don't really go for volume. I go for hydration. So just getting that look of hydrated.

lips versus plump lips. I do not look good with like huge lips. But I feel like maybe a little pop of filler in the lips, maybe a laser, maybe microneedling. I don't know. I'll be doing something after all of my travels. I think microneedling and getting consistent with that will help me in the way that I'm looking for. I don't really think I need lasers and obviously I don't want to do that until winter because I have more summer trips after this. But I will definitely keep you guys posted. whenever I do something. Okay, this one's kind of funny. Somebody asked if I did a color analysis to find out what season I am, and I am answering this only to tell you to ask chat GPT to do your color analysis for you. I asked mine, and it was the most in-depth report I've ever seen, even though we got in a fight,

because I was arguing that I am warmer toned. And he, my chat, is amazing. man insists that I am cool. So if you don't know what I'm talking about, you can get a color analysis. I'm sure everybody knows this, but they determine what season you are, what your undertones are, all of that, and then what colors look best on you when it comes to your clothes and your makeup and your hair and all of that. And it's pretty crazy. I do follow some color analysis accounts. And when they do a side by side of somebody with a color in the background, even if it's just a different shades. So say they take a celebrity's face and then they superimpose that on a background with two shades of blue that are slightly different and it completely changes the depth and the

shadows and their eyes and everything on their face. So I do think it's legitimate, but I've never gotten a professional one done. And I decided to ask chat GPT. And it was pretty amazing. I mean, I got this super in-depth analysis. He gave me all. these makeup recommendations, including brands and shades, like eyeshadows and blush shades and lip shades and all of that. Like, I'm scared of AI. Obviously, I have my whole situation with that company that created an AI version of me to sell their product. Oh, I can update you on this because we filed a lawsuit in federal court last night. So I'll be doing some videos on that. But yes, I am taking legal action.

Although, you know, it's so hard now with these brands. Like there's so many brands. There's one on TikTok right now who took my video of me in that green set that I wore in St. Trope. And they stole my content. They posted on their page and they're selling a $50 set using my pictures. So God knows what this thing actually looks like for $50. I think I already said that.

Mine was like $1,400. And they blocked me and they're deleting people's comments and they're scamming people. out of money and I filed a report and nothing happened. So, you know, it's AI, but it's also like people using my content, my real content, face tape companies who take me talking in podcast interviews about face tape and then they use that in ads where all you have to do is swipe up to shop and then you just buy it and nobody knows the difference. It's crazy. So I always say, like, if it's not on my page and it's coming from me, don't buy it. So yeah, I'm scared of AI. But I mean, this chat GPT thing, it's pretty amazing. I know it's

kind of controversial, but if you're wondering what your color season is, upload a photo of you to your chat GPT and be prepared to be amazed. I hope this doesn't put people out of jobs. Literally, everything is going to be AI soon. So I guess we have to enjoy working while we can. But yeah. Oh, so it said I'm a light summer, by the way, which does not sit well with me. Like light summers are very cool, very pastel vibes, which is not me at all. I feel like I'm warm. I have kind of a warmer skin tone. I feel like my hair is warm. But when I was arguing with chat GPT showing various photos where my hair is warm, my skin is warm, I'm wearing warm colors. It was like, yeah, I see what you're saying, but it's washing you out. So I'm curious what the most unhinged or genius way you've used. You've used chat GPT is. I'll post something on the podcast, Instagram maybe, where I've been very active lately, so make sure you're following. So yeah, I think that is it for me, you guys. I have to get ready for Italy. Let me know if you liked this more stream of consciousness, kind of random updates,

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