Well, hello, hello, guys. You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K. Secrets of the Plastic Surgeon and today on the podcast is

the Jesse Golden. She is a beauty. She's such an interesting lady. She's written a book

called The Golden Secrets and we're going to talk about her personal challenges with illness,

optimizing her life, her glowing skin and kind of achieving physical and spiritual wellness overall.

Welcome to the podcast, Jessie.

Thank you so much for having me.

So first a little background.

Tell me a little bit about yourself and introduce us as the audience.

Yeah.

So I grew up in Chicago.

My mom had a dance studio. So I grew up dancing. Ballet was my life.

And that really laid the foundation. I feel like for the rest of my life as far as discipline and

hard work and all of that stuff. The negative side of things, though, was trying to achieve this

epitome of perfection that didn't exist.

And then I started modeling. I made a living as a model, basically my entire life.

And then moved around a little bit, moved to California, did some acting. Had my son at 25, he's now 17, and I became a yoga teacher,

a holistic health practitioner, and dealt with some pretty unexpected illnesses, got diagnosed

with rheumatoid arthritis when I was 29, completely

unexpectedly. And it kind of took me on this journey to seek health. So I share a lot of that

in my book, The Golden Secrets to Optimal Health. And I also started a blog back then where I just

started sharing things that worked for me. And that eventually turned into my skincare line,

the Golden Secrets as well. Amazing. So your devoted mother, a model, you do Hatha Yoga,

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