You're listening to I Choose Me with Jenny Garth.

Hi everyone, welcome to I Choose Me.

This podcast is all about the choices we make and where they lead us.

My guest today is known for being an actress in cult classic movies, like Hairspray and Cry Baby. She was a successful talk show host for many years and

now she's creating documentary films about things she is passionate about from

natural birth to marijuana to birth control.

She's the host of her own podcast, The High Life.

This is part one of our conversation.

Please welcome the incomparable Ricky Lake to the I choose me podcast.

We've never met, well we've met, but like little brief encounters.

It doesn't really count, but yes.

I feel like I know you.

Same, same. Mm-hmm. Okay, good. But I feel like I know you.

Same, same.

Okay, good, good.

I love to hear about where people come from and why they are the way they are.

So if I could, I would love to just explore your childhood a little bit because our

our childs have such a huge impact on who we are and like the rest of our lives. So can you take me back to your beginnings a little bit like what kind of a household did you grow up in?

Yeah, so I am from Westchester County, New York.

Officially I was raised in Hastings on Hudson, which is like 25 minutes

outside of the city. And I was a pretty normal kid. I had a lot of personality and I had two parents that you know stayed married for

43 years so my childhood I was in a you know a home that had its own

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