Episode 162 - 'Good Vibes Only' With Ashley Hoover Baker
Is This Real Life? With Mandy Slutsker
Is This Real Life? With Mandy Slutsker
4.3 • 20 Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2021
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
This week Mandy is joined by Ashley Hoover Baker of @OnThisDayEntertainment to chat this week in Bravo. Unlike the ladies of Potomac during their Chesapeake Bay trip, they bring good vibes only to this podcast! They run through the most pressing issues from each of the franchises from Beverly Hills, to Potomac, to Salt Lake City including Erika’s storytelling by piecemeal, Candiace’s misogyny towards strippers and sex workers, and whether Lisa Barlow had anything to do with the caterer’s cancelling on Angie. Plus, Ashley shares her experience living with multiple sclerosis and some important reminders about self care.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Is This Real Life, a Bravo podcast that relates our favorite shows to our own lives in the world around us. |
| 0:18.5 | I'm your host, Mandy Slutszer. Let's get to it. |
| 0:30.0 | Hi, real lifers. Thank you so much for listening. Welcome to episode 162. |
| 0:39.5 | Oh man, it's been a week. |
| 0:41.4 | And I am so grateful that there are three Housewives franchises on at the moment plus Vanderpump rules. |
| 0:50.0 | It is making me very happy and I'm just so grateful because it's been kind of a rough week |
| 0:57.1 | for me. |
| 0:59.0 | I'm not sure how much I'm comfortable sharing, but I've been pretty open and honest with you |
| 1:05.3 | all since about a few years ago, maybe about a year and a half ago, I was diagnosed with primary ovarian insufficiency, which affects 1% of women, and it means that you lose your ovarian function before age 40. |
| 1:23.6 | So that's why I went through all that egg freezing to see if we could capture some of the last few eggs before my ovaries go into retirement. |
| 1:35.4 | And over the last few weeks, I've started to have some symptoms that indicate that they are getting ready to retire. |
| 1:51.3 | And so that's been really emotional and uncomfortable physically. And I'm just trying to wrap my head around everything that's going on |
| 1:59.7 | with my body. So, you know, I know it's younger |
| 2:05.4 | than most people, but, you know, I've always liked to think of myself as a trendsetter. |
| 2:10.2 | And I'm trying to maintain some sort of sense of humor about this. But, you know, send my heart |
| 2:17.4 | out to anyone that is also dealing with this or has |
| 2:21.3 | friends or family or loved ones that have dealt with this issue. And if any of you ever want to |
| 2:27.7 | reach out, you know, my DMs are always open. I'm just, yeah. And it's made me realize the importance of just like constantly |
| 2:36.7 | checking in with yourself and with your body and with your mental health and like asking myself, |
| 2:42.5 | like, where am I at? What can I do to take better care of myself during this tough time? And it so happens that my guest, Ashley Hoover Baker, also had a |
| 2:54.7 | pretty rough week. And she's opened up to me before about her experience living with multiple |
| 3:00.5 | sclerosis. And so in this interview that I do with her, we actually open up talking about that |
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