Hi, everyone. This is Andy Richter and you have tuned into another episode of the three

questions. And I'm excited to talk to somebody that we used to be NBC pals. We worked on the

same network for a moment. And I've always enjoyed your work. And I'm talking to Ali

Larger, the actress model. Are you still a model? Oh, staff. No. I don't know. I don't know.

I'm big. Maybe you're doing feet modeling or something. Apparently I hear that's very lucrative.

I just got a good look at the feet folks. There's people all over the internet that would pay money

for that big money. No, and also you're an author, too. And you wrote a cookbook, right?

Yeah. I mean, I think I'm old enough now to have gone down many different lanes in my career.

Tell me about it. But yeah, you know, I started out as a model. I was really young at 14 in New York.

I was actually discovered in Philly, like 10 minutes from Cherry Hill, where I grew up.

And I did more of like the catalog modeling. I was on like book covers or I would do like a

Kellogg's Frosted like commercial. And so I was doing that kind of stuff. And that was kind of my

segue into the business. Into the business. Well, now I want I want to I want to start with that

because that's always an interesting thing. And I mean, and it's a it's a I mean, it's not a super

common story, but it is something that happens. Young attractive teenager, uh, noticed by someone

and then is pulled into this business. And so I'm curious like as a 14 year old, I mean,

what kind of childhood did you have? Were you in in any way aiming towards this kind of work?

No, you know, I really I grew up in kind of an idealic, you know, um, Southern Jersey town called

Cherry Hill. Yeah. You know, our dog walked us to school. We rode our bikes to the cover bridge

swim club. Yeah. You know, my parents are still married 53 years. Wow. It's just a really, um,

you know, my dad coached on my softball teams. I played every sport to my mom made dinner. It was

it was really beautiful. I mean, every family has its issues, but in the real rounded out when I

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