A Cover Girl's Confessions [Featuring Jennifer O'Neill]

Culture & Christianity: The Allen Jackson Podcast

Pastor Allen Jackson

Christianity, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 884 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Description: What happens when a Hollywood icon walks away from fame to follow Jesus? What does it take to confront the lies our culture feeds women about empowerment, abortion, and identity? Jennifer O'Neill was America’s sweetheart—an international supermodel, CoverGirl icon, and Hollywood starlet with the world at her feet. But behind Jennifer O’Neill’s dazzling smile and red-carpet glamour, she was struggling. Fame gave her everything—except peace. In this episode, Jennifer O’Neill confronts the cultural deception that tells women abortion is liberation and reveals the freedom only faith can bring. She unpacks how the enemy twists pain into shame, and how God can rewrite it into purpose.

More Info:
Surviving Myself: https://www.jenniferoneill.com/surviving-myself-book.html
From Fallen to Forgiven: https://www.jenniferoneill.com/Fallen-to-Forgiven_book.html
You're Note Alone: Healing Through God's Grace After Abortion: https://www.jenniferoneill.com/Youre-not-alone_book.html

Hope & Healing at Hillenglade: https://hillenglade.org/
Glitter Girls Gatherings: https://www.hillenglade.org/glitter-girls-gatherings
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0:00.0	Hey, welcome to culture and Christianity. I'm excited today.
0:19.8	Fun interview. My guest is Jennifer O'Neill.
0:23.5	Supermodel, before that was a term. Amazing. When I was a kid, her face was on all the magazines,
0:29.3	and now she's in Tennessee with horses doing equine therapy. It's an amazing story. Married
0:36.5	more times than Elizabeth Taylor, did about everything
0:39.6	Hollywood and the movie industry had to offer, and then she met Jesus. And he took all of that fame,
0:47.0	and it's an amazing story of overcoming brokenness and hurt and depression, a crazy tenacity.
0:54.1	God will use the broken places in your life. He's
0:56.3	certainly using them in mine. He's done them in Jennifer's. The conversation I think will give you
1:00.5	hope, no matter what challenges you're facing today. God is a redeemer, and I'm certain he can do
1:06.4	it in your life. It's a remarkable story with Jennifer O'Neill. I think you'll enjoy it. Very good. Well, I'm excited about the conversation today. Jennifer O'Neill is back with us. Welcome back. Thank you for having me. Thank you. We are honored. I had such a good time. We did this. It's been over a year. Just about, yeah. Nana, you live too close. We can't wait that long. I know. I didn't. You text me and I missed it. And because I don't text, I'm old. But I'm going to learn now because I don't want to miss your text. Oh, you're very kind. But last time you had just done the Reagan movie. Yes. And that was kind of the centerpiece of our conversation. But there is
1:44.9	so much more that I want to wander through a little bit. Thank you. I'm going to, you all know,
1:52.0	everybody knows I like to read. So I've usually got a book and I got to read surviving myself.
1:58.6	I don't even have words. Appropriately. You read it? Yes, ma'am. I thought Kathy read it. She did, but I read it when I knew we were going to get to sit down again. Did you have your seatbelt on? I didn't, I wasn't tight enough. Yeah, crazy. Crazy life, and I wrote it because I just wanted to talk about not my life.
2:17.8	I'm not that important, but what God did in my life.
2:20.8	And if he can work with me, he can work with anybody.
2:23.0	I didn't come to my faith until I was 38.
2:25.6	So I wanted to write about Jesus.
2:28.2	Well, and there's just so much.
2:29.5	I've been walking around for two or three days saying,
2:32.4	how do we want to approach this?
2:34.7	Because I think the average person that leads a normal life like I have in Middle Tennessee,
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