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  • hey guys how are you hello hello hey how are you  michelle i'm good i'm excited that all four of  

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  • to a very fun question today and i'm curious what  you guys will say so the question is if you could  

  • be famous would you want to be who wants to start  should i call on someone or do we have any takers

  • would i want to be famous  if i could would i want to  

  • sure yeah why not just to see  what it's like i would i would

  • so i just saw the movie gucci over  the weekend and i thought that was fun  

  • yeah it wasn't the best movie it was a little  bit long but i actually think it would be  

  • kind of cool to be a famous fashion designer  just because it's so the opposite of what i  

  • know and do right i do not do fashiondo i need help for my friends and family  

  • disaster i never know what goes together i don't  like i'm not so something that is so totally  

  • different i think it'd be fun to be a famous  fashion designer it's fascinating to me that  

  • you left that movie thinking i would like to be  a favorite like murderer and like horrible people  

  • well we all take something different exactly what  about you jessica would you want to be would you  

  • want to be famous sure yeah totally uh let's see  i would want to be like a famous like actress  

  • or something being like super cool movies and tv  shows and stuff um yeah i mean who gosh yeah who  

  • doesn't want to be famous i don't know okay okay  we have a raised hand guys i absolutely would not  

  • want to be famous because i really value my  privacy i want to be able to go to the park  

  • and not have to worry about people taking pictures  of my kids or i don't want to have to wear makeup  

  • or a bra you know what i mean like i don't want  people following me around especially the more i i  

  • hear about um blake lively and what's his name  ryan reynolds reynolds are a really good example  

  • where they have just really had difficulties  with keeping their children out of the media and  

  • away from like paparazzi photos and they're like  constantly having to um contact people to say take  

  • those pictures off like instagram and it's it just  sounds miserable to me so i would not want to be  

  • worried about my kid's safety i've run into a few  famous people with their kids in new york city and  

  • you could just see how like worried they were that  they're like so worried about their kids either  

  • being abducted or just like pictures of them in  the media i'm like i would not want that life you  

  • know what i mean i wouldn't want to be recognized  for my face maybe i could be a famous author  

  • where people don't know what i look like but  like like i have read about or heard about  

  • celebrities that really um create a life that is  out of the spotlight and they do that successfully  

  • like they don't live in la they don't live  in new york like they have you know like a  

  • ranch in idaho or something and then um so i i do  think it's possible i know it's harder for sure  

  • but you're rich like you could do it like if  you're that like rich and famous you could create  

  • a life for yourself somewhere else and then the  other thing is like when you do see famous people  

  • in real life they don't look exactly like they do  on tv like i think a lot of a lot of famous people  

  • i don't know maybe you don't recognize them right  away because they don't they're not like perfect  

  • i don't know well that's the other thing i'll see  pictures in whatever celebrity magazines you know  

  • people magazine i'm like oh i feel so bad for them  that they're like they're putting these terrible  

  • pictures where they're making a weird face and  they don't have makeup on and this magazine for  

  • everyone to see i don't want someone to see that  photo of me yeah yeah i like them at their best on  

  • the red carpet all the time it's just whatever  they look like getting coffee yeah that's why  

  • they're always wearing sunglasses right they're  always huge sunglasses covering their faces  

  • that's why one of the cool things about like  somebody like amy schumer is like she is  

  • unapologetically you know herself whether or not  she is you know so like because sometimes like i  

  • follow her on instagram and she just posts things  she doesn't care if she's wearing makeup she just  

  • kind of like she just owns it she's like well this  is me and so you could choose to be like that um  

  • so so in that way like i like kind of celebrities  who are more real like that and you can you can  

  • see them in their natural habitat i wonder if  that depends though it looks amazing without  

  • makeup i've seen them i look like a naked handle  rat without makeup i can't pull it off like amy  

  • schumer can pull it off i wonder if that depends  though too on their amy schumer does like comedic  

  • roles right she's a funny is she a stand-up  comedian as well she okay so i wonder if that's  

  • just kind of quirky personalities that always play  a certain type right what about other people who  

  • are playing a very polished you know very feminine  woman could she also be quirky like that in the  

  • real world i guess um who is not jennifer aniston  who was married to ben affleck for a little while  

  • um jennifer jennifer garner yeah she has a really  funny instagram channel where she's baking have  

  • you seen that she's really quirky in that so she's  totally herself and super funny so that could be  

  • an example of someone who's played very typical  female roles and is very quirky on social media so  

  • yeah i love how she's just like a mom like  whatever you see her i'm like she's just  

  • a mom who happens to act yes yeah that's how it  feels right yeah so i think it is kind of in a way  

  • like i don't know if it's more like society's  responsibility or the individual celebrity's  

  • responsibility to like you know you said  oh amy schumer is a stand-up comedian so  

  • she can you know act like that or you know just  protect herself in a certain way and others can't  

  • like that's not really i i feel like oh we have  this some people have this unfair expectation of  

  • what a celebrity should look like so i don't know  if it's really their responsibility to be like no  

  • like here i'm a real person or is that not their  responsibility and they just are out there in  

  • their you know red carpets doing that stuff and  then otherwise they're keep pretty private i don't  

  • know the other interesting thing is like um i feel  like celebrities have more of pressure or a lot of  

  • them at least seem like they feel pressure to  get like plastic surgery and botox and whatever  

  • to keep looking young especially women i really  appreciate someone like francis mcdormand who's  

  • like no i'm gonna love her whatever but most women  who are older start looking so plastic and scary  

  • because they're trying to look young still and  it's a bummer that they have that pressure it  

  • is yeah no it's terrible because then like the you  can always tell yeah when there has been too much  

  • surgery and they look terrible like they still  look they're trying to avoid looking terrible  

  • but they end up looking terrible but in like an  alien way like it's fine to be like a natural you  

  • know like some wrinkles and some extra skin and  you know stuff like that but to be like like this  

  • interesting thing with the new top gun movie  coming out where the female lead in the older  

  • top gun movie was like not approached like they  don't what she's like i look like an older you  

  • know she's like i haven't had a lot of work done  so she's like they weren't interested at all and  

  • meanwhile you know it's tom cruise still but with  like younger women though i think it was jennifer  

  • connelly that was cast and she's not super young  but i don't know if she's had work done but anyway  

  • she was like really calling it out that she's  like absolutely not she's like i'm not offered  

  • any roles now because i just look like an older  interesting i think it is so it is so interesting  

  • how we're talking mostly about women here and  right fascinating like guys are allowed to sort  

  • of age and start getting white hair and look older  and it's fine they can still date a 25 year old  

  • in the movies anyway it's such a double standard  oh when i think about this it makes me angry it's  

  • true and it's not just in the movies it's  in everyday life you know i love when i see  

  • like um um gosh i wish i could think of an  example but there are a few just like gorgeous  

  • famous women out there who have like much younger  husbands or boyfriends and it always seems like a  

  • bigger deal right and i like i'm like yes you go  for it like it's so exciting because men just like  

  • they just feel like it's their right like uh like  i'm a man i could do i could have like whoever  

  • and ladies are like oh it's not appropriate people  will think badly of me or whatever olivia munn's a  

  • good example i think she and jason sudeikis just  got divorced and now she's with what's his name  

  • from olivia wilde harry styles yeah i know well  i'm a time lapse so i'm i'm a ted lasso fan so  

  • i i'm i you sadly split up yeah like i don't know  i'm kind of i mean i don't really follow celebrity  

  • anything but i did follow that specifically  because of tedla and that just made me upset  

  • so good for her for harry styles and for what  jess said but like yeah i know i love dragons  

  • quick aside i saw jason sudeikis once in new  york leaving 30 rock he was doing snl at the  

  • time and i thought i knew him from like church  i was like did you talk to him from church  

  • my husband was like no no it's not stop stop weird  and god it's hilarious i love him for the show i  

  • was like oh he's fine but like now from the show  and i love him anyway so i guess you know that we  

  • have to think about if we were celebrities like  would we be you know nervous to be out in the  

  • open would would you be the type of celebrity  who lives somewhere else and is very private  

  • just really quickly let's just go through before  we head out how would you live your life as a  

  • celebrity uh jess i would live in a small townwould just be just live my life away from wherever  

  • i had to work i think um yeah i do hear interviews  with celebrities that are very kind and they love  

  • meeting fans like conan o'brien he's like he wants  to connect with everybody and like you know sign  

  • everybody's gonna read that way oh god he's so  cool you're just like right on the subway i could  

  • i couldn't do that like i couldn't have people in  in my space all the time um yeah so i'd like to  

  • isolate myself yeah yeah what's the point of being  famous i guess that you have the money the money  

  • you have money the money you like money and doing  like really getting to be like a really unique  

  • cool talented person that people can respect your  unique amazing talents we already have that though

  • um audrey what about you what kind of famous  person would you be would you be hiding or would  

  • you i would hide i would live in a country where  people don't care nearly as much about celebrities  

  • i for sure wouldn't live in the united states and  in like a little cabin in the middle of nowhere  

  • especially if i had kids maybe if i were single or  didn't have kids i i wouldn't care i wouldn't care  

  • about being wherever and and noticed maybe it'd be  fine no because i still don't want to wear makeup  

  • i would hide uh-huh i would be somebody why  do you have to wear makeup as a celebrity  

  • because i look like a naked mole  rat if you don't i'm sure you don't  

  • look up a picture of a naked mole rat online and  that's oh without me right and then i'm gonna  

  • have you send me no eyelashes silly lindsay what  about you right away well i think in the beginning  

  • i would have to be in la just to make a career for  myself you know pay your dues make the connections  

  • go to the parties exactly so right so as  you're getting famous then eventually when  

  • i had the notoriety and people knew me i'd  probably leave la but i think you do need  

  • to probably put in your time yeah you'd have to  as people start to notice you little by little  

  • what do they say rub elbows as they say  yeah absolutely big money yeah absolutely  

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