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After I lost my breasts and I lost my husband and I lost my two jobs on Ellen and, Hallmark, CAMA, Home and Family, you know, it just seemed like life was just really kind of beating me down. We have lunch. He asked me for my number, and three months later, we were married. God just kind of opened my heart a little bit to say that, you know what? I have more for you.
Speaker 2:What are your main skin issues or beauty products? Welcome to ageless with Jane McGarry, where we celebrate vibrant health, self care, timeless style, and finding purpose at every age. Because around here, age truly is just a number. The last time I saw today's guest, I was sitting on her patio. It was a beautiful sunny California afternoon, and I had walked over to her condo.
Speaker 2:I was at my son's condo, and she lived not near not too far by. And I walked over and she was gorgeous. She was all dressed in white, I think I remember and she brought out something delicious to eat and to drink. And we were sitting there and we were talking about dating at the age at 60 or over, over age 60. Well, the next thing I knew, I turned around and I looked on my Instagram and her wedding pictures were there.
Speaker 2:So you may know who I'm talking about today. My guest is joining me today. You may know her from Hallmark Channels, Home and Family Show, The Ellen Show, her own DIY beauty series, breast cancer survivor, correspondent for Fox, and Newsmax. If you don't know who I'm talking about by now, welcome to the show, Kim Douglas. It is fabulous to see you.
Speaker 1:Oh, it's fabulous to see you, and the crowd goes wild. Yay.
Speaker 2:Girl. I know. What happened? I saw
Speaker 1:You know what?
Speaker 2:About dating, and you were you got married. Tell us the details. How did you guys meet? What happened?
Speaker 1:Okay. So here's the story. You know, Tee, at this stage in our life and any of your viewers or listeners, we don't have time to wait. So No. You know, we're talking on the Brentwood patio one day, and three weeks later, I'm walking down the aisle.
Speaker 1:So Who would go? Really. It wasn't that fast. But It was
Speaker 2:it was a long time. Yeah. How did you guys meet?
Speaker 1:Well, let me you know what? I will send these to you, and you can actually I don't know with the lady head stuff, but you can kinda see this is like a picture of us. And I'm gonna tell you the whole story. I've got some pictures here. Anyway, so, you know, here is the story.
Speaker 1:I am 66 here young. I'm so fabulous and happy to say my age because, as you know, I had gone through, stage three breast cancer and wasn't sure if I was gonna be here for another day, let alone another seven years, which it was seven years ago. And, so I'm just so thrilled to just be here and be alive. But after I lost my breath and I lost my husband and I lost my two jobs on Ellen and Hallmark, Tannehill, Home and Family, You know, it just seemed like life was just really kinda beating me down a bit. And I was like, you know, I'm not that person, but I'm just gonna go inward, and I'm just gonna stay in my little cocoon.
Speaker 1:And I'm gonna have my friends like Jane over, and I'm just gonna have my girls around me, and that's gonna be that. Well, then I kind of just rediscovered my faith. And I started going to this little church called Vintage Malibu in a elementary school gym where you walk into the church for the gym game, and your feet depending on what shoes you wear and your feet kinda stick on the floor because there's leftover peanut butter and jelly Oh, I love that. Friday. Of the, yeah, of the little kids.
Speaker 1:And you pick up your own chairs, and you sit them down. And it's just so rustic, I'll say. It's so not gold and not velvet. And it it's just interesting because it's so simple, and god shows up there every single Sunday. And so I started getting reconnected with my faith and reading the scriptures, and I started a bible study.
Speaker 1:And I got baptized in my sixties. And I just felt like god just kind of opened my heart a little bit to say that, you know what? I have more for you. I know you've lost a lot, but I am the god of abundance. And I'm the god of promises.
Speaker 1:And my promises were true back then, and they're true today. So I started hoping and thinking maybe there was a possibility of me finding love the second time around. So I was married for thirty seven years to wonderful husband, wonderful father, and the love of my life. Jerry Douglas, who was an actor on the young and the restless, playing John Abbott for forty years. And he was so wonderful, and we had a a great love story.
Speaker 1:And he passed away from cancer four years ago. And so I just kind of started writing, Jane, the 10 things that I would want if I ever could fall in love again. And the first one was I wanted a mighty man of God. I wanted someone who I could share my faith with. And and then I kind of went down the line, you know, someone who was, you know, positive and athletic and on and on.
Speaker 1:And so I never went on the dating apps. I never went on Raya. I never did any of that. But girlfriends would set me up, and it just never seemed to be the right fit. There was always just something a little askew.
Speaker 1:And I'm like, I'm not gonna settle.
Speaker 2:And then remember us talking about that because you were saying you would set me up. You were like, girl, come out here, and I'll set you up. You know, I know god. I'm sorry. So go ahead.
Speaker 1:No. You're so right. And and a few of the men that I went out with were lovely men. They really were. They were intelligent, and they were successful, and they were empathetic and caring.
Speaker 1:But there just was that one little, like, it's not quite. So cut to a few weeks later. I have this little bible study, which you were and all of your listeners are invited to. It's free. It's in Malibu.
Speaker 1:Everybody's invited no matter where you are in your walk with with god or without god. But I have this little bible study, and my friend, Christina Ferrari, who was married to John DeLorean, she was the first supermodel. Anyway, she and I were on home and family together for many years. And he's had a little cult battle, and I was walking her out of the bible study because it's a little cobblestone at this Malibu house, and her husband had come to pick her up. And the car lights were hitting us so that Christina would be able to see the pathway because it it's nighttime by the time the bible study's over.
Speaker 1:And we're walking out, and Tony, Themopolis, her husband, who was the head of ABC Entertainment for many years, was in the car waiting. And the two lights are shining, like, just like you and I have lights shining on us right now. And Tony said he was sitting in the car, and he's a man of faith, but not necessarily a guy who hears God every day or whatever. And he said he's sitting in the car alone, and he hears the voice that says, you have to introduce Kim to Tim. And he's like, oh, what?
Speaker 1:And he was doing a business deal with my current husband, Kim Robertson. And, Kim's wife, he had been married forty seven years to the love of his life, had five children. They had a beautiful marriage, a loving relationship. We're absolutely a wonderful couple, and she passed away three years almost three years ago from pancreatic cancer. So, he had been on the phone with Tony saying, you know, I don't this is just horrible to lose, you know, your love.
Speaker 1:And so that afternoon, Christina called me right after the next day and said, Tony wants to introduce you to this man, Tim. And then Tony called Tim and said, I wanna introduce you to this woman, Kim. And we were both a little apprehensive. We're like, he lives in Virginia Beach. He lives in LA.
Speaker 1:Anyway, we had a lunch set up a few weeks later with six other people. And Jay, Seinfeld, his lovely wife, Tracy, myself, Kim's son, Christina, Tony. And I was just kind of like, it's Beverly Hills, and it's lunch. What have I got
Speaker 2:to lose? I'm why not? You know?
Speaker 1:And and Tim was the same way. He's like, I'm in a business meeting. I walk across the street. What you know, what's so worth it could happen? So he walks in, and I was early.
Speaker 1:Don't anyone who knows me knows that's never happens, but that was the light of god. And, he walks in, and our eyes lock, and nobody else is in the room. We don't talk to one other person. We have one. He asked me for my number, and three months later, we were married.
Speaker 2:You are kidding. It really did happen that quickly because I thought, I guess, I just missed what she was doing.
Speaker 1:Jane, literally that quickly. I mean and, you know, there's this quote that I wanna share with your viewers and listeners. And it says, when you don't have to chase it, that's when you know it's God. And we didn't taste each other. We didn't play games.
Speaker 1:We weren't like, oh, you think I'm gonna be coy? I'm not gonna call her. Just were like garbage.
Speaker 2:Yeah. All that garbage.
Speaker 1:So cool. I just really like you. And he was the same, and we were just like, let's let's go out.
Speaker 2:I am I am so happy for you. I know everything you have been through. You have had Yeah. For for a for a girl who's usually really happy and all that. You've been through a lot, and I am so happy for you.
Speaker 2:I am thrilled for you. So tell me, you've got he has five kids. You have a son. Okay. How is your son doing with the blended family?
Speaker 2:Because I always think about that with my son. I'm like, that's my son. You know? Would he like having all these other people around him?
Speaker 1:I know. You're so right. So I have an only child like you. And Yes. Miss Hunter Douglas, like the blind company.
Speaker 1:We don't own the blind company, but everyone asks us for discounts. I can hook you up maybe. Anyway and he is 28 years old, and he just moved from doing finance in New York to finance in LA. And here is the quick story, Kate. I'm an only child.
Speaker 1:I had an only child. So we were a very small family. Yeah. Very loving, but very small. And I found out just recently that I well, I knew this.
Speaker 1:I used to pray every night for a large portion of my life because I went through an infertility battle that I could have more children. And, God, if I can have more children, maybe you could help me get the right adoption situation or a foster family or a exchange student. I mean, I'll I'll do anything. And, you know, I would go and wait. Know?
Speaker 1:And I didn't know this, Jane, but my son, who had a very happy childhood, and we did everything for him, and we always were the house where everybody came. He would pray until he was in eleventh grade every night that god would give him a brother or a sister or a bigger family. So cut you when god is in the picture. This is our family as of the day. Oh, that is beautiful.
Speaker 1:28 family members in one day. So I went from one child to 29, and I have 17 step grandchildren and 20 10 step children and step in laws. And I'm just you know, when when god blesses you and he's in it, man, like, I I couldn't have even dreamed of this. Are you are you kidding me? Like, how and to answer your question, Hunter has never been happier.
Speaker 1:They are so inclusive. They want their dad to be happy. They lost their mother, and they're so welcoming. And, like, Hunter is their brother or their uncle, and he's never had, you know, been an uncle that many children. So it's really beautiful.
Speaker 2:You know, I think that's one reason we bonded, and I'm gonna talk later about one of the main things we bonded over, which was faith, which you were kinda surprised I was expressing, you know, because it's not that popular in California. But we I have my only son. You know, I mean, I think he has always kind of wished for the same thing that he could have had brothers and sisters. And I was older when I had him, and that wasn't very easy to do. So Right.
Speaker 2:You know, so I really, really relate to that. Well, okay. I just gotta ask you, though. A lot of women who have been alone for a while, you weren't alone that long, but if you've been alone for a while, you get kinda set in your ways. You know, your house looks good.
Speaker 2:It doesn't have socks, doesn't have dirty socks all over the place, all that kind of stuff. Nope. And I know that sounds trivial, but how's that working out? How is it working out to now share your home with a new man, Bob?
Speaker 1:Yeah. So, here is the good news. He had a home, obviously, with his wife, and I had a home with my husband. And we decided the best thing to do was to get something that was ours, that was, you know, just for him and Tim. So we, got a place in Malibu, and it's been it's made all the difference because it's ours.
Speaker 1:Where when he was at my home, it was Kim and Jerry's. And when I was at his home, it was Lisa and Timbs. So that has helped a lot. But the question still remains. Your question is a very legitimate one.
Speaker 1:You know, Jane, I would wake up in the morning. I'm my hair's in a ponytail. I'm in my fuzzy robe. I've got my footy pajamas on. Yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm getting my ball beanie. I'm in my whole routine. You know, I'm on Instagram. I'm seeing what Jane's doing. Oh, that's so cute.
Speaker 1:You know? And it it is an adjustment. I'm not gonna lie and say, like, oh my gosh. But it's a beautiful adjustment. And here is my here is what I say to myself.
Speaker 1:You know, do I wanna stay where I was, or do I want a new adventure? Do I wanna try I'm healthy. I'm over 60. I'm, you know, living my life that I didn't think I'd have after breast cancer. And so I wanna experience everything that god has for me.
Speaker 1:So I was ready to jump in. Let's go. Let's see. And we travel a lot because he loves to travel, and he's semi retired. So it's just been he's opened up so many new doors for me.
Speaker 1:Now do I get to watch the real housewives of Beverly Hills as much? No. You want get to go out with my girls as much? No. But it it's a good trend, though.
Speaker 2:What would you tell women who are listening right now and who are not desperate for someone else, but they're thinking to themselves, you know, I have twenty, thirty years ahead of me, it would be nice to have someone to share some of these things with. Can share it with my girlfriends, but it would also be nice. What is there any advice you would give them? Because now I will tell you, like, for instance, with me, I'm seeing someone who I've been seeing for a couple of years now. And what I would tell women, okay, he I met him on match, so the dating apps worked for me.
Speaker 2:That was fine. But I would say, you know, if you knew some things about him and knew some things about me I mean, I'm from a small town in Illinois just like you're from a small town.
Speaker 1:Yep. BC.
Speaker 2:He grew up in Harlem. So totally different backgrounds, different lines of work completely. But and so on the surface, you might go, I don't see the match here. But he's a great human being.
Speaker 1:He's I love it.
Speaker 2:And so if there were things in the beginning that I was like, I'm not sure if we have this or that in common, he's a wonderful human being. So that for me is the most important thing. If it's the values someone holds. Well, I mean, so if you were gonna tell women something about getting out there in the dating scene right now, what would you say 60?
Speaker 1:60. So here would be my advice. I feel like you need to go and find whatever it is that you are passionate about. If it's a book club, if it's horseback riding True. If it's playing bridge, whatever, you know, whatever.
Speaker 1:If it's a knitting class. I don't know. Whatever it is, you need to find the things that you're passionate about and be in there. And you would be so surprised, Jane, at the lady in the knitting class that you would never think who has a brother who just got divorced or lost his wife Or, you know, for me, it was going into the church. And all of a sudden, the church had this community around me, and they all were like, we're gonna pray for you to find the right man.
Speaker 1:We're gonna look into our families and our friends and our neighbors. And, you know, I'm I made my net a lot wider, but it was with people of integrity and character that I knew would bring into my life someone who also had what you said, a beautiful human being, a man of character and integrity, that I wouldn't be like him. Am I okay? You know, does he want somebody 20? Is he, you know, straining me among?
Speaker 1:So that is my advice. Find the things that you're passionate about and delve in. Let everybody know. Tell them all, how are you? Oh my god.
Speaker 1:I love your red dress game. By the way, wanna let you know, I'm I'm open to finding somebody.
Speaker 2:Get out there and live. Live
Speaker 1:life. And everybody wants to help. If you you know, you don't think that, but they all wanna be the matchmaker. Christina Ferrari ended up being my one maid of honor. I only had one person in the wedding.
Speaker 1:It was Christina. She now is a speaker at my bible. You have no idea. I said to her, you brought so much to my life. She said to me, you brought so much to my life by fixing you up.
Speaker 1:So it's a win win. And then I'd say, don't settle. Do not settle. No matter what age you are, it's never too late. It's never too late to find love.
Speaker 1:It's never too late for god. It's never too late. You're not too old. You're not too big. You're not too that.
Speaker 1:It can happen, and the right person is out there. So I just wanna encourage women for that.
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Speaker 1:I do. She, she was so kind to me, honestly, Jane. And I know there's been lots of different things. But you know what? You have to talk about people the way you find them.
Speaker 1:And I worked on the Ellen DeGeneres Show for seventeen years. And I can't believe that. She was I went on for one episode, and they said, by the way, you're never gonna be on again. This wasn't Ellen. This was the producers.
Speaker 1:She isn't interested in beauty. She doesn't care about lipstick. And you're like a beauty, you know, expert, and that isn't gonna be but we'll get you in on this one time when she's getting ready to host the Emmys. And, you know, it's not gonna happen again. And I was her most reoccurring guest ever in the
Speaker 2:show for
Speaker 1:years. Ever. So
Speaker 2:And here's the thing. You were hilarious on that show.
Speaker 1:Was it was all Here's what I It was all out.
Speaker 2:Here's what I wanna know. But, no, it wasn't. It was you. And here's what I wanna know. I find comedy incredibly intimidating, and I think a lot of people do.
Speaker 2:How do you get the nerve to just put yourself out there and be funny? Because you really have a lot of courage to do that, don't you?
Speaker 1:You know, you do. You do because you risk you run the risk of looking really silly. And then, of course, you and I are blonde, so add that to it. You know? Then you're a ditz and you're a Dumbo.
Speaker 1:And but, you know, I just feel like I came from a background where I was in in second city, and I had a lot of improv experience. And I just feel like I'm not funny. I couldn't tell a joke to save my life. I couldn't do stand up if you paid me $50,000,000. But I do have, much like you, I do have funny quits.
Speaker 1:I can I can find a quit out of something? If you were saying something, I could somehow my brain works, and I find a quit that makes people laugh. Or if I'm in a tense situation, I will somehow find the funny to just diffuse the, the nervousness and the anxiety. So Ellen was always extremely generous. She would lay it out lay the set the table for me.
Speaker 1:Could be the fun and we somehow just always balance, but we never rehearsed one time ever. She was always right off the cuff. And I find that, you know, Jane, if you use it as a ministry that I'm gonna make funny part of making people laugh, my purpose going out there was to make people laugh. And if that's what you're gonna do, throw it all the wind and in improv. The the the thing is, say yes to everything.
Speaker 1:Here's your improv thing. You're on on Mars. You're getting a heart transplant, and there's four monkeys doing it. Go. And you can't say, like, wait a minute.
Speaker 1:Mon no. You just have to say yes. Yeah. I'm doing Yes. I'm going with that.
Speaker 1:And it's the most ridiculous stuff. But say yes. And you know what? I've used that in my life too to just say yes. Just say yes to the opportunities.
Speaker 1:Say yes to the the thing that presents itself to you. Just say yes.
Speaker 2:What do you use when okay. I will tell you. I because I do some coaching for people. And they are if they're nervous to be on camera or something like that, I will tell them, once you've done all your preparation and all that, one of the things you can do to get yourself and this applies to social situations too, not just on camera. I always I use gratitude all the time.
Speaker 2:I just think to myself, hey. How lucky am I to be here? How lucky am I to have this opportunity? And it just melts away a lot of the anxiety for me. Is there any is that what do you use when you're nervous about doing something that you would tell other women they could use?
Speaker 1:Yeah. So I was really nervous to meet Tim, you know, at your sixties in LA in natural lighting. You know? Not so great. I mean, I was also nervous the first time I went on the Ellen Show.
Speaker 1:I literally had to have a private nurse come to my home prior to going to the studio to give me a chemo pill because I had been so nervous.
Speaker 2:Oh gosh.
Speaker 1:It should've been yeah. Wouldn't it stay in my stomach? So this is the thing. You're gonna get nervous. So don't say to somebody, don't get nervous because they will.
Speaker 1:Secondly, I think your preparation, what you said, if you prepared for it and you know what you're gonna do, and then you have your intention. I am going on the Ellen show to make people laugh. I am going to meet Tim because I wanna find a life partner. I want that. That's what I want in my life.
Speaker 1:So you've got your intentions set. I say, obviously, my prayers, and I ask the Lord to give me a calmness and a focus and a clarity. And, once I get in it, then I'm then I'm ready to go. You know? So I guess I would just say, I remember my late husband, Jerry.
Speaker 1:I said to him you know, he'd been on the same show for forty years. And I said to him, I said, you know, do you do you still get nervous after, you know, forty years? He said, kid, the day I stop getting butterflies when I go to work at the young and the restless is the day I quit working. And he never Yes. Never stopped with the butterflies.
Speaker 1:So embrace them. You know what I mean?
Speaker 2:Yeah. No. The energy. If you channel the energy in in the right direction, energy, nervousness can be a very good thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So I'm you mentioned a couple of things here that I wanna follow-up on. One is you were talk we were talking earlier about I think one of the ways we really connected was I was interviewing you and or we were talking, and I mentioned something or maybe I had posted something about my faith, and I'd been pretty open about it. Yeah. And we were having this conversation about how you were saying how much harder that is to do in Hollywood than it is in Dallas, Texas. We're just just approaching that whole subject of faith.
Speaker 2:Yeah. But you are really out there now about faith. Can you talk with your new podcast and everything, and can you talk about how do you surmount that in Hollywood?
Speaker 1:Well, wow. You know, I didn't for a long time. I just kind of was like, well, I'll just shine my light, Jane. I'll just you know? And I'll hope that people will see it.
Speaker 1:And and then as, you know, different things came into my life, as I mentioned earlier, cancer and loss of jobs and loss of husband, then I was like, look. The only thing I have to stand on is my foundation, and my foundation is my faith. So why am I hiding? Why am I not, free to share that with people? You know, many people in Hollywood are the first to say, I'm an atheist.
Speaker 1:That's the way I am. Take it or leave it. I'm an atheist. I don't believe in any
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:Or you know what? I believe in the universe. I'm, you know, I'm I believe in crystals. And guess what? They're really proud to tell you that.
Speaker 1:And then everybody at the dinner parties are like, tell me about your crystals. What's going on? And I'm like, you know, why can we not say, well, I actually worship the creator of the universe. I worship the one that made it all. And, you know, I think it's all in the way that you deliver.
Speaker 1:If you deliver it in love and you say, this is what I believe, and you're not, you know, accusing or making anyone defensive, I think you can really open a lot of doors. Now the other thing is I married a man, Tim Robertson, who his family legacy is the Christian Broadcast Network. His father was Pat Robertson. And
Speaker 2:You're kidding. I didn't know the What? I didn't realize that until just now. News. Yeah.
Speaker 2:I didn't put the I didn't put the two together.
Speaker 1:Duh. Me. My brother-in-law is Gordon Robertson who does the seven hundred club and who I adore. And, you know, they are part of Regent University, and they are a very, very strong faith filled based family. And they are here here's my thing for you, Kay, that I wanna tell you.
Speaker 1:When the doors are shut, nobody's around. No one can see you. It's all quiet. I've been around Gordon, and I live with Kim. And I know the five daughters, the four daughters and the one son.
Speaker 1:What did one make? They are more integrity and character than any people I've ever met. They live the life. They walk the walk, and they don't just talk the talk. And being around people like that make you want could be better.
Speaker 1:My husband makes me wanna be a better person every day.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much for sharing that. I'm I'm yeah. Can I can feel I can feel how it touched you to talk about that, and thank you so much for sharing that with all of the women who are listening right now who I know are looking for things? And that's actually evolved even in Hollywood where it's difficult to talk about your faith, you just said. I mean, you can say, yeah, you ought to be able to do it, but Yeah.
Speaker 2:Other people's opinions and what you're around matters. But now you've developed all this into an actual podcast, which I've listened to. I was so I was like, oh my gosh. That's Diane Cannon. No.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:Oh, she's such a hoot. She's so wild and crazy and fun.
Speaker 2:So briefly, what's the podcast supposed to be? Who's it for? What what what is it?
Speaker 1:Sure. So our podcast is called God's Table Hollywood. You can find it on YouTube at God's Table Hollywood and on Spotify and Apple and wherever you get your podcasts. And after you listen to Kane, then you can listen to me. And it's really great.
Speaker 1:It's for women. All of us are at different walk in our faith journey. Some, you know, like myself, born in it. Others still aren't really sure where they're at with their walk. And so it's very open.
Speaker 1:And our tagline is God's table, Hollywood, where everyone has a seat. And truly, everyone is welcome. So I think it was just four women that you know, one is an a two time Academy Award winner. One is a a double, Emmy Dayton Emmy winner, Tracy Bregman from Young and Restless. The other is a celebrity nutritionist in Shaft to the Stars.
Speaker 1:And, and then myself. And we've all been, you know, very successful and very blessed in our lives, but we all know that it all stems from our foundation and our faith. And we, share that with others, but we do it with fun and beauty tips and, you know, dating tips and, and friendships and friendships that have fallen by the wayside and jobs that haven't panned out and divorces like, Diane with the late Carrie Grant. And we just share our life story. So it's really beautiful.
Speaker 2:It was so fun for me to see her. I was really like, oh my gosh. That is Diane Cannon.
Speaker 1:Yep. She's 88 years old. She has a a figure that would knock your socks off. She has entered I saw. Yeah.
Speaker 1:She just goes crazy. She drives all over Malibu and West Hollywood. She's at every Laker game. The woman is a force to be reckoned with.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's that's fabulous. I I just I love all that. So I'm I wanna after the break, I'm gonna ask you about some beauty products and stuff like that, skin care things. But before we do that, I do want to ask you this because I'm seeing and I know we follow some of the same people on Instagram. And I'm following a lot of women who are about proaging in the sense of letting the hair go gray, accepting wrinkles, you know, and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2:And I'm very drawn to that kind of thing in a lot of ways.
Speaker 1:And at
Speaker 2:the same time, I find myself doing what I can with makeup and all that kind of stuff. I can't imagine You mentioned when you were talking about meeting your husband, your now husband, that you met in Hollywood in the daylight and how scary that is compared to all these girls in Hollywood who are, I can't even imagine the pressure. How are you dealing with that whole subject? I mean, like, how much you want to age? How are you dealing with all that in Hollywood?
Speaker 1:Yeah. Well, here's what I did find. You know, I have a tendency to I see something or I hear about a new procedure, and I'm like, I want it. Let me, you know, let me try. I'm the first one.
Speaker 1:I'll tell you. Got Botox here. I got a little filler here. I do microneedling. I mean, I'm the last of the ones to be like, oh, boy.
Speaker 1:I don't I'm happy to tell you everything I've done. But, you know, this is all my hair, and I haven't had a facelift, and and no no judgment of anybody who does.
Speaker 2:But Right. Same here. Same exact same exact thing here. Botox, filler, all that. Yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm scared, frankly, to have a facelift.
Speaker 1:Me too.
Speaker 2:I don't I'm just scared. Me too. But I but these are things I think about, and I think they're good things for women to think about.
Speaker 1:Me too.
Speaker 2:Not just automatically do one thing or the other, but to weigh it and go, how much expense and time and effort do I wanna go to in order? Because we are all aging. There is just no way around it. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah. And you know what? Every day, they come up with newer and less invasive things. And so I will always try the newest and least invasive for as long as I can hold out. And then, I don't know, you know, catch me in five years.
Speaker 1:You just never know what'll be happening.
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Speaker 2:If you have any travel needs at all, whether it's a tour with me or maybe you just wanna go somewhere on your own, Casey at Sharon Carr Travel will take you there safely in style, and you'll have a wonderful time. Thank you, Sharon Carr Travel, for being one of the sponsors of Ageless with Jane McGarry and supporting all of us women. Before I ask you about your favorite products and body lotions and all this kind of stuff, I wanna ask you one of the thing this is called ageless. The my podcast is ageless with Jane McGarry. And when I think of ageless, what I mean by that is, yes, I pay attention to skincare and the things that we're talking about and all that.
Speaker 2:But also in a sense, I don't pay attention to my age. I want to continue to learn new things, to grow. I don't want to be, stopped by my age. Is that something you relate to? I mean, what your mindset as you age.
Speaker 2:What is your mindset? And how much difference does it make in your aging?
Speaker 1:I have to tell you, Jane, this sounds so cliche. And as it's coming out of my mouth, I'm like, oh, please. But it's the truth. I'm being authentic. I think my sec my sixties are my sexiest, most confident, most fun decade that I've ever had.
Speaker 1:I love that. I really love that. And, you know Why? Well, in my twenties, I was so self conscious and so, like, am I measuring up? And then in my thirties, I was so focused on, I've gotta get pregnant.
Speaker 1:I've gotta get pregnant. I have to have the baby, then I have to have a second baby. How fast can I get them? My body's at my forties were all about focusing on Hunter and sports and all of that. Mhmm.
Speaker 1:My fifties were helping with Jerry and going through his difficulty getting Hunter into the right college. And my sixties are just like, oh my god. I can just relax. And and I can just I just I feel comfortable in my body. I know what I want.
Speaker 1:I know what I don't want. I'm fine to tell somebody what I want. I feel really good about my my weight. I'm not worried about, you know, pregnant or not getting right or, you know, menopause. I'm over all of that.
Speaker 1:I just feel so good. And how and to answer your question about your mind, I am going with Tim tomorrow morning to Scotland, and we're going pheasant hunting. Now as we've had ever pheasant hunted. Never. As we if I want a pheasant hunt, I'm not so sure.
Speaker 1:But I'm go out because I got a cute outfit. I have knickers, and I bought tweed jacket and a fun hat. And I'm gonna go out, and I'm gonna meet new people, and I'm gonna try it. And, you know, anybody who's against hunting, I understand, but these pheasants are raised particularly for this hunt, and we're going to eat them afterward. So if you eat any fish or any chicken, kind of the same thing.
Speaker 1:And I I love doing these new adventures. I love it. And I'm so open to it, and I'm willing to try anything once. So and I have the time to do that now.
Speaker 2:Okay. I didn't wanna pry, but since you mentioned it just briefly, for women who maybe are afraid about intimacy when they're older or in fact, I I think you know a good friend of mine, doctor Jessica Shepherd, who is here in Dallas. And she and I have done a podcast on hormones and how important all of this is. And we've talked about women's health in detail about, intimacy at an older age. But, what incur do you have encouragement for women as to whether things can work well when you're older?
Speaker 2:You mentioned that you know what you want now. Yes.
Speaker 1:Yeah. I I do. And you're not afraid to say it. Yeah. We do.
Speaker 1:You know, we do. So here is my thing. I went to my doctor when I knew I was getting married, and I said, you know, I I wanna talk to you about this in a medical way. And we did. And she said, you know, if you have any fears, there's this, this, and this that you can add to your health regime.
Speaker 1:And, also, just trust your body too, that your body will respond in the way it's supposed to even if it has been a very long time since your husband passed away or whatever in your life. And I just have to tell you, when you are with the right person and when they are so gentle and kind to you and when you're madly in love, it is amazing how the body just respond no matter what your age, ladies. No matter what your age, your body respond. And don't be afraid to go and find out the right things to help you if it doesn't.
Speaker 2:And I love that you're saying that because sometimes it is confusing and you're not sure. Ask someone. Don't be afraid to ask. And I agree with you. Mean, my my experience has been that with the right help and with the right, someone to someone to explain things to me, my intimate life is as good as it's ever been.
Speaker 2:So I I appreciate you opening up about that. I appreciate you being open about that. I know women look look to you. Okay. So what are right now as you're in your sixties?
Speaker 2:I think you said you're 66.
Speaker 1:66.
Speaker 2:Okay. So I'm I'm a couple years older than you.
Speaker 1:Laura, you
Speaker 2:look So thank you. What are your main skin issues or beauty products? What are you relying on right now that you what what are your problem areas and what are you relying on? Give me two or three of them.
Speaker 1:Okay. Here's here's the first thing. So after, cancer, I changed my entire skin regime to finding things that are, you know, clean beauty. I don't use anything with parabens, phthalates, or fragrance. I find lines such as, like, Womaness, and you can get it at Target.
Speaker 1:It's under $40. I do a lotion every day and every night. No fragrance in it. And, you know, your skin is your largest organ, so you don't want chemicals going in there because it can affect your body. And so I I use hydration with the moisturizer every day, every night.
Speaker 1:Just got out wonder if you can tell. Just got out of a spray tan by Natalie who comes to my home. A spray tan, ladies, can hide a myriad of flaws. You just get your your tan on. You can either use, you know, a $20 lotion that you get from, from Target or wherever and just put it all over your body.
Speaker 1:And it really does. It just helps any of those little pimples or those little, you know, areas that you're just like, I'm not feeling that great about.
Speaker 2:Yes. Yes. I know. Absolutely.
Speaker 1:And makeup skincare that is not, you know, comedogenic and also clean. And here's two really quick, almost free tips. In the morning, when I am gonna be on Jane McGarry's show or on a TV show or doing god's table. I get a bowl, and I fill it with cold water. And then I put as much ice as I can in it.
Speaker 1:And then I hold my hair back, and I dump my face for about thirty seconds, even twenty, into the bowl of ice. When you come up, your skin is snapped. Your pores are timed, your inflammation is reduced, and it costs you zero, and it takes twenty seconds. So you do that. The next thing is, I always keep with me blotting pads, but I found that if you go into the ladies room in any place and you get a piece of the toilet seat cover and you get here, here, and here, it absorbs the oil and it leaves your makeup in perfect place.
Speaker 1:It costs you 0. So, you know, I love thinking of tip. Do I use La Mer? Yes. Do I use other products that are really expensive?
Speaker 1:Yes. But I can invest in a spray tan if I'm doing ice water. You know? So it's just all about finding that balance.
Speaker 2:I love that. A spray tan, ice water, then the toilet seat cover. Hello? Perfect. That's perfect.
Speaker 2:Okay. Wanna finish on a little bit of a, reflective note, I guess. One of the things that made me wanna start this podcast was that I'm in an age where I would say a lot of nights and most mornings, I wake up and I think to myself, wow. I only have I don't know, is it I don't know how long I have left, but I know that I'm nearer the end than the beginning.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And so I really think a lot about what I wanna do, and it makes me have a different perspective on things. Yeah. Do you think about that kind of stuff? Do you think do you do you wake up and think, gee, maybe I only have twenty summers left or 20 Christmases? How did that happen?
Speaker 2:But do you think about that kind of stuff, and what do you do with it? Because I know a lot of women think about it. What do you do with it when you think
Speaker 1:about You know, it's so interesting you'd say that Sunday at Vintage Malibu, my church, the minister Chris Bennett was talking about the power of our words. And, you know, Jane, I do think about it. I let it in, and I know, obviously, my age, and I know how much his span is. And I think about that with Kim. He's 70.
Speaker 1:We have a four year age difference. And, you know, it's it's relevant. It's there. You don't wanna be a ding dong and not think about it. But in my word, whenever he or someone around us is like, you know what?
Speaker 1:Well, you're getting older. I'm like, no. I'm not. I'm feeling great. I'm better than ever.
Speaker 1:Every cell in my body is working. God gives me promises that I'm going to have a long and abundant life, and I just rebuke that. So no. And I make sure that my words about my life and about my time is like, I'm gonna live my life to the fullest. And you know what?
Speaker 1:Cancer is never coming back on me. Never ever. And God has got his hand on my life. And I just speak words of not ridiculous affirmation, but real affirmation over myself. And I believe that, and I believe that for my friends and my family.
Speaker 1:And I think that does shift the perspective a little where you're not naive, like, oh, I'm here for another fifty years, but you're also not kind of focusing on that. You're just like, oh, look at this morning. Look at this day that I have. I'm so grateful for it, and I'm gonna go out and live life to the fullest. And I kind of flipped the switch on that.
Speaker 2:I am grateful for the time that you have spent with us today. Me too. I really appreciate it. Where can people find you and all that kind of stuff? Where where it go?
Speaker 2:I know they're gonna wanna follow you now.
Speaker 1:I'm so glad you have. I'm looking to build up my, Instagram. And you know what? I do do things that are positive, and they are faith based. So I lose followers because I talk about faith a little bit and, positivity.
Speaker 1:So I would love any of your followers that want faith based and positive thing to follow me at Kim K
Speaker 2:y m. The sign.
Speaker 1:I know.
Speaker 2:Kim I love that. Kim Douglas. Douglas.
Speaker 1:Yes. And it's k y m, not k I m. So my Instagram, you can follow me. You could find out about the upcoming book about Tim and I, our love story, and it's called love after loss. And, god's stable is on YouTube or any, podcast platforms that you listen to your podcast.
Speaker 1:And, I just loved being on this with you, Jane. You're a force to be reckoned with. You're a wonderful positive person. You're a girl's girl, and I love your energy.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much. I really appreciate your being on with me today, and, I'm just thrilled for you. I'm really, really happy for you. And I hope I get to see you the next time I'm in California, which I hope is soon. Thank you so much for subscribing and being part of the ageless community.
Speaker 2:I call it a community because this ageless with Jane McGarry is part of our community. We're gonna be taking girls trips together. We're gonna be doing a lot of fun things as part of this community. And without you, it's not possible. So thank you for being part of Ageless with Jane McGarry.
Speaker 2:Have a great day.