Jiving with Melissa Gilbert
Sex, Lies, and Spray Tans
iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
She's a woman of many talents! Actor, producer, director, former president of the Screen Actors Guild, and DWTS contestant!
Melissa Gilbert joins Cheryl to talk about her time on season 14 of DWTS, revealing how she ended up with Maks, why they clashed so much, and how being on the show brought up body image issues from the past.
She also discusses her time on the beloved hit show, "Little House On The Prairie," celebrating its 50th Anniversary next year! Including the vital lesson Michael Landon taught her, dealing with the pressure in Hollywood to look a certain way and letting herself age gracefully.
Plus, Melissa answers fan questions, takes on the rapid-fire test, and talks about her Modern Prairie app, which hopes to foster a community of women celebrating life and embracing aging.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Sex, Lies, and Spray Tans with me, Cheryl Burke, and IHeart Radio podcast. |
| 0:07.2 | Hey, guys, welcome to Sex, Lies, and Spray Tans. |
| 0:10.6 | We've got an incredible guest today on the show. |
| 0:12.8 | She is an actor, producer, podcaster, and you probably know her best for her role as |
| 0:17.6 | Laura Ingalls Wilder on House on the Prairie. She's graced the screens for nearly |
| 0:23.4 | 50 years and got her Hollywood star Walk of Fame in 1985 and spent four years as the president |
| 0:28.9 | of the Screen Actors Guild. In 2009, our guest also opened up with her struggle with alcoholism |
| 0:34.5 | in her autobiography, Prairie tale, a memoir. I'm actually currently listening |
| 0:39.4 | to it. It's pretty good. What I admire most about our next guest the most is how unspoken she is and |
| 0:44.5 | has been about sexual abuse in her line of work and how she has taken on the pressure of aging in |
| 0:49.3 | Hollywood. On a lighter note, she is a fellow arts and crafts woman. That's right. If anyone |
| 0:54.0 | knows me, they know I love me some arts and crafts woman. That's right. If anyone knows me, |
| 0:54.5 | they know I love me some arts and crafts, huh? In all seriousness, though, I thought we'd |
| 0:59.0 | continue the important conversation when it comes to body image with someone who has been |
| 1:03.0 | a huge advocate and powerful voice on this subject. My guest has been vocal about her |
| 1:09.7 | experiences with feeling the need to look a certain way, especially in the entertainment industry. |
| 1:14.2 | And by continuing to tell her story, she's been a huge inspiration to me and many as she embraces and doesn't shy away from her authenticity. |
| 1:21.8 | She quotes, the idea that we're trying to teach people to be afraid of aging is a mistake. |
| 1:26.7 | Aging is a gift. I like to say I'm aging |
| 1:29.0 | gratefully. It's exhausting keeping up that kind of facade, she said, so she stopped it all. |
| 1:33.9 | The injections, the hair dye, the red carpets, and moved away from Hollywood to upstate New York, |
| 1:39.1 | where she lives a slow and intentional cabin dwelling life. Clearly, her vulnerability is powerful, and I know so many |
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