The One Where Lala Spills The Tea On Herself & Welcomes Burn Survivor Aaliyah Shepard
Untraditionally Lala
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3.4 • 13.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Aaliyah Shepard is an incredibly inspiring 9-year-old burn survivor who along with her amazing mom, Tia, shares her unbelievable story about overcoming the odds and thriving in the face of severe adversity. Aaliyah and her mom detail the fateful day that Aaliyah suffered 3rd, 4th & 5th degree burns over 39% of her body, and how Aaliyah managed to defy the doctor’s prognosis, cheat death, and go on to start her own business (Aaliyahs.heart on Instagram) to help others who may be struggling in life. Plus, Lala spills the tea… on herself, and is interrupted by a very sweet phone call from her baby girl, O!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my beautiful ladies and I'm sure there's a couple gents, just all my folks, all my people. |
| 0:15.1 | Welcome to another episode of Give Them Lala. |
| 0:18.8 | What day is it? |
| 0:20.1 | What day is it? What day is it? |
| 0:21.4 | Well, it's... |
| 0:21.9 | This will air Wednesday. |
| 0:23.0 | It's Monday right now, but this is why I'm feeling a little like... |
| 0:26.3 | Can I tell you? |
| 0:28.0 | I've realized that when I decide to go and do something, if I go to bed, let's just say, |
| 0:36.8 | any time after midnight, like, it's all the same after that. |
| 0:41.3 | If I'm going to bed after midnight, I could be going to bed at midnight and it might as well be |
| 0:46.7 | five in the morning because it's all, no matter if I get eight hours of sleep, the next morning, |
| 0:51.4 | I'm going to feel sick, I'm going to feel depleted. |
| 0:53.8 | I'm not going to be digging life. That is the same for me. That's so weird. Yeah. Yeah, that's the same for me. If I go to bed after midnight and it doesn't matter if I have one drink or five, I will feel the same. So usually when I go out, I just don't drink because I'm like, what's the point? What's the point? Yeah. Well, and I told my mom, I told my beautiful mother, because we're |
| 1:17.5 | obsessing over Game of Thrones right now. And like, I cannot stop watching. Yeah. But I told her, |
| 1:22.5 | like, when the clock hits 11, we're done. Yeah. You go to bed. I go to bed. There's no more because if we push into midnight, my whole next day is going to be shot. Yeah. And even though it's a weekend, like my kid doesn't care. Yeah. My kid's like, time to wake up and play and run around and it's exhausting. |
| 1:44.8 | Right, right. |
| 1:45.3 | Not just being mom, but just like if I go to bed too late. I'm like, fuck this. And it's easy to do that with Game of Thrones because you're like, just one more. We have to see what happens next. Like just one more. And then with Game of Thrones, next thing you know, it's freaking 3 a.m. Three in the morning and I'm having to wake up and be mom and run a business and put food on the table and pay these bills. |
| 2:06.8 | So you're exhausted today. You don't seem it. |
| 2:09.1 | I don't. |
| 2:09.6 | No, not at all. |
| 2:10.9 | You look, your skin is glowing. |
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