127: Modeling, Acting, Addiction & Recovery w/ Jennifer Gimenez

Be Here For A While

Comedy Interviews, Education, Self-improvement, Comedy

4.6 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Jennifer Gimenez joins Rachael today to talk about her EPIC life and career. Jennifer was discovered on the Santa Monica Pier by legendary photographer Bruce Weber at the age of 13. Her modeling career blew up and she was soon walking the runways of Paris and was the it girl for the famous designer Alaia. She was the youngest person to ever appear on the cover of Elle Magazine and starred in a documentary that was nominated for an Academy Award. She then turned to acting where she read with legends like Robert De Niro, competed for roles with Penelope Cruz and eventually had roles in movies like Blow w/ Johnny Depp, Vanilla Sky w/ Tom Cruise and many more. Throughout all of this though, she silently struggled with addiction, attempting to get sober several times. She finally had success at the facility where she met Dr. Drew which would ultimately be another turn in her career. She starred in both Sober House and Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew and has celebrated almost 15 years of sobriety. She's an inspiration about how you can be on top, hit rock bottom, and pull yourself out and have the life you always dreamed of. **For amazing holiday gifts at incredible prices download the free Poshmark app and enter the invite code: BEHERE for $5 off your first purchase!

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hello, friends. Welcome back to an episode to be here for a while. Today's
0:18.4	episode to be here for a while is brought to you by Poshmark which is so
0:21.9	timely because the holidays are just around the corner and you can get
0:25.5	sheik designer awesome gifts on Poshmark for your friends or your family or in my case, myself.
0:31.9	And I have an invite code for you guys I'll give you later in the
0:34.1	episode. All right quote for the day and it goes so well with my podcast
0:40.0	guest today which might I just, it's a must listen. Her story is epic, from her
0:48.7	incredible career highs to the lowest of the low points and now she's back on top and it's awesome her name
0:57.0	is Jennifer Jimenez and I will give you her full bio in a second but before that
1:01.7	quote of the day in order to love who you are you cannot hate the
1:06.5	experiences that shaped you and I think that that really goes well with today's
1:11.3	episode and you will you will understand why when you hear her story
1:16.0	but that that resonates with me a lot because I think I mentioned in my last episode with Katie
1:26.0	you know it's just 2018, kind of a rough year, mostly the summer of 2018, kind of a rough summer.
1:29.2	And if I am to move on from everything that happened I cannot hate that it happened. I can't you know I it's and I say I say this in the episode with with Jennifer
1:41.6	Let's say for example you know, you're upset with someone.
1:46.3	You know, I think I've said this before on the podcast actually.
1:49.9	Just realize that, but I think about it a lot because it really resonates with me. Like hating
1:55.5	them or feeling angry about something that happened is literally like drinking poison and
2:00.1	expecting someone else to die. It is only hurting you to hold on to that kind of
2:05.2	negativity and you know everything that's happened to you does shape who you are.
2:09.7	Every and I I mean when I really think about it everything that's bad or was bad at the time
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Be Here For A While, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Be Here For A While and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.