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Post by Tin on Apr 13, 2012 9:55:40 GMT -5
A TV talk show coming later this month promises more-substantial conversation than your typical fare.
Lifetime debuts "The Conversation With Amanda de Cadenet" on April 26. The premise is a series of one-on-one talks between the British photographer/media personality and a celebrity. The lineup has some weight to it: Gwenyth Paltrow, Jane Fonda, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Diane von Furstenberg, Melissa McCarthy, Lady Gaga. Demi Moore serves as executive director.
De Cadenet brings an interesting bio to the table; she began her TV career hosting shows at age 14, had several roles in films, became a successful fashion and portrait photographer. She has a 20-year-old daughter from her first marriage, to Duran Duran rocker John Taylor, and 5-year-old twins with current husband, Strokes guitarist Nick Valensi.
"The idea came about from my own desperate need to find role models that I could relate to," de Cadenet told online site Zap2it:
"After I had my twins, I had health problems," de Cadenet says. "I was a new mother, and I had postpartum depression, and I was thinking, 'How do women cope who have kids, a career and a relationship?' Because I was really struggling, and all I could see in contemporary culture was, 'Yeah, I had twins, and I lost all my weight in two weeks, and I cook three meals a day, and I have a full-time job.'
"It is just not true," she continues, "but no one is saying it. ... No woman can come back to work and cook every meal, exercise and run a company and keep their mental health."
She and her guests talk frankly (sometimes very frankly) about relationships, parenthood, sexuality. Portia De Rossi divulges, "I just didn't want to be gay, honestly." De Cadenet and Paltrow discuss postpartum depression. One guest compares the pain of breast milk coming in unfavorably to labor and delivery.
Sarah Silverman and Jane Fonda have interesting things to say about giving up parts of their personality to keep a relationship going. Fonda say, "I've been into countries under bombs, and it took me two years to be brave enough to say, 'Ted, can we make some adjustments here?' "
Each week's show has a theme, such as "Parenting & Perseverance" or "Love and Loss." The initial run of eight shows airs weekly April 26-June 14.
-- Kathy Hinson
blog.oregonlive.com/themombeat/2012/04/celebs_tell_the_truth_about_mo.html
Lifetime debuts "The Conversation With Amanda de Cadenet" on April 26. The premise is a series of one-on-one talks between the British photographer/media personality and a celebrity. The lineup has some weight to it: Gwenyth Paltrow, Jane Fonda, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Diane von Furstenberg, Melissa McCarthy, Lady Gaga. Demi Moore serves as executive director.
De Cadenet brings an interesting bio to the table; she began her TV career hosting shows at age 14, had several roles in films, became a successful fashion and portrait photographer. She has a 20-year-old daughter from her first marriage, to Duran Duran rocker John Taylor, and 5-year-old twins with current husband, Strokes guitarist Nick Valensi.
"The idea came about from my own desperate need to find role models that I could relate to," de Cadenet told online site Zap2it:
"After I had my twins, I had health problems," de Cadenet says. "I was a new mother, and I had postpartum depression, and I was thinking, 'How do women cope who have kids, a career and a relationship?' Because I was really struggling, and all I could see in contemporary culture was, 'Yeah, I had twins, and I lost all my weight in two weeks, and I cook three meals a day, and I have a full-time job.'
"It is just not true," she continues, "but no one is saying it. ... No woman can come back to work and cook every meal, exercise and run a company and keep their mental health."
She and her guests talk frankly (sometimes very frankly) about relationships, parenthood, sexuality. Portia De Rossi divulges, "I just didn't want to be gay, honestly." De Cadenet and Paltrow discuss postpartum depression. One guest compares the pain of breast milk coming in unfavorably to labor and delivery.
Sarah Silverman and Jane Fonda have interesting things to say about giving up parts of their personality to keep a relationship going. Fonda say, "I've been into countries under bombs, and it took me two years to be brave enough to say, 'Ted, can we make some adjustments here?' "
Each week's show has a theme, such as "Parenting & Perseverance" or "Love and Loss." The initial run of eight shows airs weekly April 26-June 14.
-- Kathy Hinson
blog.oregonlive.com/themombeat/2012/04/celebs_tell_the_truth_about_mo.html
