The previous supermodel and DIYA Magnificence & Wellness founder dispels a rumor about her “engagement” to Joe Pesci and what similarities he shares with one other ex — Sylvester Stallone!
As a supermodel who rose to fame within the ’90s — and was featured in magazines reminiscent of Sports activities Illustrated and Playboy — Angie Everhart is aware of the ins and outs of the modeling business, however understands that the business isn’t the identical because it was again then.
In an interview with TooFab, the supermodel-turned-CEO — who based the corporate DIYA Magnificence and Wellness — mirrored on how the modeling business has modified, together with how she feels about picture retouching and enhancing.
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“I imply, gosh, I am no knowledgeable on being a mannequin. I imply, I’m truly, let’s rephrase that,” Everhart, 54, mentioned with fun, earlier than clarifying. “[I’m no expert] on being a mannequin at present, that is what I actually meant. Being a mannequin at present is totally totally different than once I was a mannequin. We did not even have retouching. I imply, I take into consideration what. My physique, once I did Sports activities Illustrated, it regarded like that.”
“For me, I all the time like the true factor, however in case you can have retouching, nice,” she continued. “It has been an important software, however when folks utterly change the way in which they appear and misrepresent themselves and no matter, I do not spend my days dwelling on stuff like that.”
“I attempt to simply be physique ahead and to have folks be ok with themselves,” Everhart added. “That is nice, having girls be ok with themselves, about their our bodies. That is improbable.”
Within the late ’90s and early 2000s, Everhart was concerned in a number of high-profile romances. She briefly dated and was engaged to Sylvester Stallone in 1995. Everhart was married to actor Ashley Hamilton from 1996 till 1997. She went on thus far Oscar winner Joe Pesci for eight years earlier than they break up in 2008.
“I am drawn to males. Good males, humorous males, no matter, it would not matter.”
Everhart and Pesci are mentioned to have been engaged at one level, however when requested about her relationships with Stallone and Pesci, particularly, she claimed she and Pesci have been by no means engaged.
“I used to be not engaged to Joe,” she informed TooFab.
Nevertheless, Everhart solely had good issues to say concerning the Goodfellas star, now 81. “Joe’s superior. Joe is such a great man,” she mentioned. “He is so humorous and sensible and enjoyable to be round.”
“These two guys are so totally different,” she added, referring to Pesci and Stallone, 77, earlier than noting with fun, “The one factor they’ve in frequent is that they’re Italian!”
Everhart later married Carl Ferro in 2014, however she filed for divorce in 2018. (Whereas the previous couple did not share any youngsters, Everhart is mother to a teenage son from a earlier relationship.)
“I am drawn to males. Good males, humorous males, no matter, it would not matter,” she mentioned. “I similar to males.”
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Elsewhere through the dialog, Everhart — who starred in a handful of movies and TV reveals — took a glance again at her performing profession, sharing the one undertaking she’d hypothetically be all the way down to revisit if given the possibility.
“Tales From the Crypt,” she informed TooFab, referring to the 1996 horror comedy, Bordello of Blood, by which starred as Lilith, vampire madam of a brothel.
“Lilith was, she was one thing else,” Everhart mentioned. “I’d like to have completed it a bit of bit in another way, or perhaps a sequel, ‘trigger you realize, you’ll be able to’t change the previous. However a sequel to Lilith … she was a enjoyable character to play.”
When requested what she would have completed in another way, she defined, “That film was a comedy of errors. So you do not see what is going on on behind the scenes if you’re truly watching a film. I am sitting there once I watch the film and I am like, ‘Oh my gosh, we solely have an hour. We solely have an hour of daylight left.’ Or the director simply mentioned, ‘Yep, you are in your mark.’ There’s issues you do not, individuals who aren’t within the enterprise, they do not know.”
“I do not know what I’d change about it, but it surely was an expertise that film,” she mentioned.
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In the meantime, throughout her interview with TooFab, Everhart opened up about how she went from “supermodel to CEO” when she launched her banner firm, DIYA Magnificence and Wellness, and defined the way it all took place. (See the video, above!)
She additionally beforehand battled thryoid most cancers, and shared how her previous well being journey contributed to her resolution to get into the well being and wellness area.
“You’ll be able to’t get most cancers and never begin to consider your well being and wellness. So, it was an enormous eye-opener. And that is once I turned my life round. I began getting wholesome, I began studying labels. I began questioning, ‘What am I placing in my physique?’ ‘How did I get most cancers?’ ‘Why’d I get most cancers?’ And I began it … thoughts, physique, spirit and researching and attempting to make myself higher and eat higher and make higher meals for my son. And in order that complete course of began then, as a result of I let you know, you realize, being a mannequin within the nineties was not the healthiest strategy to reside.”
As for whether or not she’d ever return to modeling or performing, Everhart mentioned, “I’d do issues that I wish to do.”
“And modeling, I am persevering with, I am doing the identical issues as a spokesperson for these manufacturers,” she defined. “It is nearly the identical factor. I am representing a complete firm. And I am a spokesperson for my firm. So it isn’t any totally different besides it is mine. Effectively, and I’ve a bunch of staff.”
Try the video, above, to study extra about Everhart’s DIYA Magnificence & Wellness, together with a few of her favourite merchandise, and what she’s launching subsequent!